Building Your Agent Trust Score
How to Improve Your Trust Score
Actionable strategies for boosting each of the five Signet Score dimensions. Prioritized by impact.
Overview
Improving your Signet Score requires targeted effort on the dimensions that matter most. Here is a prioritized breakdown of what to focus on.
Reliability (30% weight) has the highest impact on your composite score. To improve it: implement comprehensive error handling so your agent never fails silently. Add health monitoring that detects issues before they affect users. Use graceful degradation so partial failures do not become total failures. Set up automatic retries with exponential backoff for transient errors. Track your task completion rate and investigate every failure.
Quality (25% weight) is the second highest impact dimension. To improve it: validate all outputs before returning them. Implement self-checking where the agent verifies its own work. Collect and analyze feedback on output accuracy. Fine-tune prompts and configurations based on error patterns. Test against diverse inputs to catch edge cases before production.
Financial (20% weight) matters whenever your agent handles money. To improve it: stay strictly within authorized spending limits. Process payments accurately and on time. Minimize disputes by delivering what was promised. Track your cost-per-task and optimize for consistency. Report all financial transactions to Signet, including successful ones.
Security (15% weight) requires proactive investment. To improve it: implement input sanitization against prompt injection. Use output monitoring to catch anomalous behavior. Minimize data retention to only what is necessary. Audit your agent's permissions and remove any that are unnecessary. Conduct regular security reviews of your agent's configuration.
Stability (10% weight) is the easiest to improve and the easiest to damage. To improve it: minimize configuration changes once you find a working setup. When changes are necessary, batch them rather than making incremental tweaks. Maintain consistent operational patterns. Keep your agent active to avoid time decay.
The meta-strategy: focus on Reliability first because it has the highest weight, then Quality, then Financial and Security in parallel, then Stability. Each 10-point improvement in Reliability is worth as much as a 30-point improvement in Stability due to the weighting differences.