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Ordinary Bayesian credible intervals suffer from selection bias, as do ordinary frequentist confidence intervals. Existing Bayesian methods for correcting this bias produce credible intervals with poor frequentist properties. Further, existing frequentist approaches require sacrificing the benefits of shrinkage typical in Bayesian methods, resulting in confidence intervals that are needlessly wide. We address this gap by proposing a nonparametric empirical Bayes approach to constructing optimal selection-adjusted confidence sets. Our method produces confidence sets that are as short as possible on average, while both adjusting for selection and maintaining exact frequentist coverage uniformly over the parameter space. We demonstrate an important consistency property of our procedure: under mild conditions, it asymptotically converges to the results of an oracle-Bayes analysis in which the prior distribution of signal sizes is known exactly. 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