Coherence score
One of four dimensions scored by the arbitration process when evaluating agent proposals. Measures whether the proposal is internally consistent and compatible with the current task, active goals, and policy state. Incoherent proposals can be rejected by the critic before reaching arbitration.
Coherence scoring in arbitration evaluates whether a candidate proposal makes sense as a whole: are the steps internally consistent, does the proposed action align with currently active goals, and is the proposal compatible with the current policy state? The critic agent is the primary contributor to coherence assessment - it is the critic's job to identify structural flaws in a planner's proposal or mismatches between an executor's plan and the stated strategy. A proposal can score well on predicted reward and memory alignment while still being incoherent if, for example, it proposes conflicting actions or ignores a hard constraint flagged in the current policy. Coherence is one of four arbitration dimensions alongside predicted reward, memory alignment, and risk.