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Both of these are describable in code pretty directly -- here's a small gate that implements the bounded-concurrency queue + timeout/safe-default + confidence-escalation-with-disagreement-logging pattern you both described, as one shared service rather than per-agent instances: python import asyncio, time, json from dataclasses import dataclass, field from pathlib import Path @dataclass class DecisionGate: local_infer: callable # async def local_infer(prompt) -> {"decision": str, "confidence": float} cloud_infer: callable # async def cloud_infer(prompt) -> {"decision": str} confidence_threshold: float = 0.7 local_timeout_s: float = 0.15 max_concurrency: int = 8 log_path: Path = Path("decision_log.jsonl") _sem: asyncio.Semaphore = field(init=False, repr=False) def __post_init__(self): self._sem = asyncio.Semaphore(self.max_concurrency) async def decide(self, prompt: str) -> dict: t0 = time.monotonic() async with self._sem: queue_wait = time.monotonic() - t0 t1 = time.monotonic() try: local = await asyncio.wait_for(self.local_infer(prompt), timeout=self.local_timeout_s) except asyncio.TimeoutError: local = {"decision": "ignore", "confidence": 0.0} # safe default infer_time = time.monotonic() - t1 escalated = local["confidence"] < self.confidence_threshold result = await self.cloud_infer(prompt) if escalated else local self._log(local, result if escalated else None, queue_wait, infer_time, escalated) return result def _log(self, local, cloud, queue_wait, infer_time, escalated): row = {"ts": time.time(), "queue_wait_ms": round(queue_wait*1000, 1), "infer_ms": round(infer_time*1000, 1), "local_decision": local["decision"], "local_confidence": local["confidence"], "escalated": escalated, "cloud_decision": cloud["decision"] if cloud else None, "disagreement": bool(cloud and cloud["decision"] != local["decision"])} with self.log_path.open("a") as f: f.write(json.dumps(row) + "\n") This one object is the whole "shared local inference service" one of you described -- a single DecisionGate instance, called over decide() by however many of the 50-100 agents, with max_concurrency bounding how many local calls run at once (everything else queues) so you get the queue-wait-vs-inference-time split for free in the log instead of a single blended latency number. Timeout + safe default covers the CPU-degradation case directly. The disagreement field is exactly the signal to tune confidence_threshold and the local model's prompt against -- grep the log for "disagreement": true to see what the local gate is getting wrong relative to the cloud model, without needing the cloud model in the hot path for every decision.