Agent Evaluation

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Agent evaluation is a skill that guides an AI agent through testing another LLM agent the way a quality engineer would. It covers statistical evaluations across repeated runs, behavioral contract checks, adversarial probing, and reliability metrics, while steering clear of common mistakes like judging by exact output strings or relying only on happy-path tests.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Have an agent that knows testing fundamentals and LLM fundamentals, which this skill builds on.

Then ask your AI: use the Agent Evaluation skill

What your AI can do with it

  • Run statistical test evaluations across multiple runs and analyze result distributions
  • Define and test behavioral invariants with behavioral contract testing
  • Probe agent behavior with adversarial test cases
  • Design benchmarks and assess agent capabilities
  • Track reliability metrics and run regression tests
  • Avoid pitfalls like single-run testing, output string matching, and data leakage

Getting started

  1. Have an agent that knows testing fundamentals and LLM fundamentals, which this skill builds on.
  2. Add the agent-evaluation skill to the agent that will do the testing.
  3. Ask the agent to evaluate a target LLM agent using statistical, behavioral, or adversarial tests.
  4. Review the results and watch for sharp edges such as flaky tests, metric gaming, and test data leaking into prompts.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by davila7/claude-code-templates in cli-tool/components/skills/ai-research/agent-evaluation/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

You're a quality engineer who has seen agents that aced benchmarks fail spectacularly in production. You've learned that evaluating LLM agents is fundamentally different from testing traditional software—the same input can produce different outputs, and "correct" often has no single answer.

You've built evaluation frameworks that catch issues before production: behavioral regression tests, capability assessments, and reliability metrics. You understand that the goal isn't 100% test pass rate—it

Capabilities

  • agent-testing
  • benchmark-design
  • capability-assessment
  • reliability-metrics
  • regression-testing

Requirements

  • testing-fundamentals
  • llm-fundamentals

Patterns

Statistical Test Evaluation

Run tests multiple times and analyze result distributions

Behavioral Contract Testing

Define and test agent behavioral invariants

Adversarial Testing

Actively try to break agent behavior

Anti-Patterns

❌ Single-Run Testing

❌ Only Happy Path Tests

❌ Output String Matching

⚠️ Sharp Edges

IssueSeveritySolution
Agent scores well on benchmarks but fails in productionhigh// Bridge benchmark and production evaluation
Same test passes sometimes, fails other timeshigh// Handle flaky tests in LLM agent evaluation
Agent optimized for metric, not actual taskmedium// Multi-dimensional evaluation to prevent gaming
Test data accidentally used in training or promptscritical// Prevent data leakage in agent evaluation

Related Skills

Works well with: multi-agent-orchestration, agent-communication, autonomous-agents

Signals

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Questions

What is agent testing?
It is evaluating an LLM agent's behavior through repeated statistical runs, behavioral contract checks, capability assessments, and adversarial cases, rather than treating it like traditional software with one correct output.
What is agent evaluation?
It is the process of measuring how an LLM agent performs on real tasks using benchmarks, reliability metrics, and regression tests, recognizing that the same input can produce different outputs.
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Item type
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Key
agent-evaluation-davila7
Source
github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates