Fidelity gates are product controls that block agent answers when evidence is insufficient—similar to payments risk checks. Ship them as tiered policies with owners, not post-launch audits.
Executive snapshot
Factual Fidelity Gates in 2026 E-commerce
Systems & logicFidelity
The move
Regulators, customers, and partners expect provable grounding for autonomous commerce statements.
The friction
LLMs amplify small catalog defects into confident false claims at machine speed.
The product verdict
Bind gates to SKUs, intents, and severity; log overrides and measure incident half-life.
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