Decision Deferral Controller

When to Use This Skill

Activate this skill when the user asks about:

• Whether to act now or wait for more/better information
• How long the agent should delay before committing to a decision
• Whether the current confidence level justifies deferral
• As the final meta-decision gate after decision-confidence-estimator returns DEFER
• Questions like "Should we hold off on this order until we recount?" or "Is it worth waiting 24 hours for a fresh sensor reading?" or "We've already deferred once — should we defer again?"

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Core Concept

Deferral is the warehouse analogue of explore-then-commit: spend k steps gathering information, then commit to a greedy action (Ch.15 §15.3, Algorithm 15.4, Algorithms for Decision Making).

# Explore-then-commit (Algorithm 15.4)
if k > 0:
    k -= 1
    return EXPLORE   # gather more info