Forecast AI configuration regression loss

Forecast material AI configuration regression, rollback-capped request exposure, excess failures, net value and economic-loss VaR/CVaR from tenant-local concurrent control/candidate evidence, partially pooled lognormal severity, coherent operating scenarios and a shared platform-regression state.

What it's for

Shows the board-facing downside of AI configuration changes: probability of real regression, requests exposed before rollback, excess failures and correlated economic tail—not merely an offline score delta.

What you give it

Inputs split into evidence read from your connected systems, calibration your team owns, and numerical controls that affect precision but never the result's meaning.

Field Type Role Required
current_releases array of objects (16 fields) Evidence Yes
historical_release_cohorts array of objects (10 fields) Evidence Yes
max_detail_rows integer ≥ 1, ≤ 500 Numerical control Optional
minimum_historical_releases integer ≥ 1, ≤ 1000 Your calibration Optional
scenarios array of objects (8 fields) Evidence Yes
seed integer ≥ 0 Numerical control Optional
simulations integer ≥ 200, ≤ 100000 Numerical control Optional
tail_probability number > 0, ≤ 0.5 Your calibration Optional

Each current_releases record

Field Type Required
baseline_failure_count integer (≥ 0) Yes
baseline_observation_count integer (≥ 0) Yes
change_class string (non-empty) Yes
evaluation_failure_count integer (≥ 0) Yes
evaluation_observation_count integer (≥ 0) Yes
evidence_verified boolean Yes
failure_loss_prior_log_mean number Yes
failure_loss_prior_log_sd number (> 0) Yes
failure_prior_alpha number (> 0) Yes
failure_prior_beta number (> 0) Yes
fixed_rollout_cost number (≥ 0) Yes
forecast_request_count number (≥ 0) Yes
id string (non-empty) Yes
maximum_failure_rate_increase number (≥ 0, ≤ 1) Yes
rollback_exposure_limit_requests integer (≥ 1) Yes
value_per_avoided_failure number (≥ 0) Yes
Example input
{
  "current_releases": [
    {
      "baseline_failure_count": 5,
      "baseline_observation_count": 100,
      "change_class": "prompt",
      "evaluation_failure_count": 5,
      "evaluation_observation_count": 100,
      "evidence_verified": true,
      "failure_loss_prior_log_mean": 4.605170185988092,
      "failure_loss_prior_log_sd": 0.5,
      "failure_prior_alpha": 1,
      "failure_prior_beta": 19,
      "fixed_rollout_cost": 100,
      "forecast_request_count": 10000,
      "id": "support-v3",
      "maximum_failure_rate_increase": 0.02,
      "rollback_exposure_limit_requests": 500,
      "value_per_avoided_failure": 100
    }
  ],
  "historical_release_cohorts": [
    {
      "candidate_failure_count": 6,
      "candidate_request_count": 100,
      "change_class": "prompt",
      "control_failure_count": 5,
      "control_request_count": 100,
      "evidence_verified": true,
      "failure_loss_log_squared_sum": 127.24555465148158,
      "failure_loss_log_sum": 27.63102111592855,
      "failure_loss_observation_count": 6,
      "id": "prompt-release-0"
    },
    {
      "candidate_failure_count": 6,
      "candidate_request_count": 100,
      "change_class": "prompt",
      "control_failure_count": 5,
      "control_request_count": 100,
      "evidence_verified": true,
      "failure_loss_log_squared_sum": 127.24555465148158,
      "failure_loss_log_sum": 27.63102111592855,
      "failure_loss_observation_count": 6,

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What you get back

This is the actual output of running the example above — computed by the same function the platform calls, not an illustration.

Example output
{
  "assumptions": [
    "The release registry includes non-regressing changes and failed requests; control and candidate cohorts are concurrent or otherwise exchangeable, use the same mature failure definition and preserve the evaluated configuration identity.",
    "Baseline and candidate failure use tenant-local Beta posteriors; positive failure severity uses a partially pooled lognormal model; rollback caps exposure only after a material regression state is reached.",
    "Every simulation shares one operating scenario and common platform-regression state across releases, preserving correlated downside rather than summing independent average forecasts.",
    "This conditional release forecast is not causal proof, a safety certificate, an SLA, deployment approval or a judgment about a prompt author, employee, team, provider or country."
  ],
  "configuration": {
    "minimum_historical_releases": 4,
    "seed": 13,
    "shared_common_regression_state": true,
    "shared_scenario_draws": true,
    "simulations": 300,
    "tail_probability": 0.05
  },
  "decision": "ai_configuration_regression_forecast_supported",
  "failed_gates": [],
  "method": "tenant_bayesian_ai_configuration_regression_loss_v1",
  "release_forecasts": [
    {
      "change_class": "prompt",
      "economic_loss_conditional_value_at_risk": 48027.5661,
      "economic_loss_value_at_risk": 19798.3585,
      "expected_economic_loss": 7469.103,
      "expected_excess_failures": 57.3467,
      "expected_exposed_requests": 6647.25,
      "expected_net_value": -5475.7697,
      "historical_release_count": 4,
      "posterior_baseline_failure_probability": 0.0502,
      "posterior_candidate_failure_probability": 0.0882,
      "probability_material_regression": 0.3533,
      "release_id": "support-v3"
    }
  ],
  "scenario_diagnostics": [
    {
      "configured_probability": 0.8,
      "expected_portfolio_economic_loss": 5246.8828,
      "realized_draw_count": 239,
      "scenario_id": "base"
    },
    {
      "configured_probability": 0.2,
      "expected_portfolio_economic_loss": 16175.8348,

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How it works

Forecasting & survival — Estimate when something completes or fails, with censoring and unresolved work handled honestly rather than dropped.

  1. 1 Retain the complete local release registry including non-regressions and aggregate control/candidate failures plus positive loss log moments within stable change classes.
  2. 2 Draw tenant-local Beta failure posteriors and partially pooled lognormal severity, then apply one coherent scenario and common platform-regression state across all current releases.
  3. 3 Cap request exposure when a material regression triggers governed rollback, compare candidate failures against the same-draw baseline counterfactual and report release plus portfolio loss VaR/CVaR with sparse-support abstention.

Before you trust it

Every tool in the catalog ships with the conditions under which its answer is meaningful — and the conditions under which it should abstain instead of guessing.

Assumptions & guardrails

  • Training examples precede their outcomes, censoring and unresolved work are represented, and deployment populations remain comparable to validation cohorts.
  • Control and candidate cohorts are concurrent or exchangeable, outcomes are mature and identical, configuration identity is preserved, rollback detection is executable and release classes remain stable.
  • A predictive interval or risk estimate is not a deadline promise, causal explanation, or individual-performance judgment.
  • This is a conditional release forecast, not causal proof, safety certification, an SLA, deployment authority or author/team/provider scoring.

Minimum evidence

  • historical_release_cohorts: required and organization-defined
  • current_releases: required and organization-defined
  • scenarios: required and organization-defined

How to validate it

Use chronological train/calibration/test windows, compare proper scores and decision value with a simple baseline, and recalibrate only from outcomes resolved after prediction time.

Calibrating it to your org

Same for everyone

The mathematical kernel, validation rules, method version, and JSON output semantics are organization-independent; no tenant-trained coefficients or company benchmark is embedded in the function.

Specific to you

  • stable change-class release registry joined to concurrent control/candidate mature outcomes, rollback detection/exposure, incident loss and finance marks without dropping zero-failure or rejected releases
  • change class and configuration epoch, cohort exchangeability, mature failure definition, complete release inclusion, material regression threshold, rollback exposure limit, tenant priors, demand/value/loss perimeter, coherent scenarios, common platform state, support/evidence gates and tail appetite

Calibration workflow

  1. 1 Define the management decision, target outcome, aggregate unit, privacy boundary, cadence, and prediction/intervention horizon for this organization.
  2. 2 Build a tenant-scoped historical cohort using only information available before each prediction or decision; preserve zero periods, censoring, assignment probabilities, and unresolved outcomes when the method requires them.
  3. 3 Estimate statistical parameters on training history, but obtain costs, utilities, risk tolerance, practical-effect thresholds, capacity, and policy constraints from accountable decision owners.
  4. 4 Validate on later time windows or held-out aggregate units at the deployment grain, against a simple baseline and the function-specific validation strategy.
  5. 5 Deploy only if the returned decision clears evidence, overlap, calibration, robustness, and guardrail checks; warning, unsupported, schema-gap, and fallback decisions are abstentions.
  6. 6 Monitor realized outcomes, data drift, coverage, and decision regret; recalibrate at a governed cadence or after a detected regime/definition change, never merely because a stakeholder dislikes the result.

Call it from your AI

You don't wire up 388 tools in your MCP client. The GitRevio MCP server exposes 18 tools, three of which let an agent search the catalog, read a tool's schema, and run it — so the assistant finds this one on its own.

gitrevio_capabilities_search
  { "q": "forecast material ai configuration regression rollbackcapped" }
  → finds "forecast_ai_configuration_regression_loss"

gitrevio_capability_describe
  { "capability_id": "forecast_ai_configuration_regression_loss" }
  → returns the input schema and agent guidance shown on this page

gitrevio_capability_run
  { "capability_id": "forecast_ai_configuration_regression_loss", "arguments": { ... } }
  → returns the result shown above

Works in Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, Continue.dev, Goose and Aider. See the MCP server.

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