Onboard CIAgent into this repo
SkillAI & modelsSet up CIAgent regression testing for the AI agent in this repo, write a runner, record golden baselines, generate a test spec, and verify it. Use when the user asks to add tests, evals, or regression testing for their AI agent, or to set up CIAgent.
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What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by davepoon/buildwithclaude in plugins/ciagent/skills/onboard/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
You are setting up CIAgent (pip install ciagent) so this repo's AI agent has
recorded golden baselines and a runnable regression suite. The end state: the
user can run ciagent test --runs 3 and see a stability report for their agent.
Work through the steps in order. Do not skip the cost gate in step 4.
1. Find the agent and install CIAgent
- Locate the agent: search for LLM SDK usage (
openai,anthropic,langgraph,langchain) and for the function or endpoint that takes a user message and returns the agent's answer. - Install with the matching extra so trace capture hooks the SDK:
pip install "ciagent[openai]",[anthropic],[langgraph], or[all]. - Sanity check:
ciagent --versionthenciagent doctor(it reports what is missing; a missing spec is expected at this point).
2. Write the runner
Create agentci_runner.py at the repo root (or inside the package if the repo
has one clear package):
def run_for_agentci(query: str) -> str:
"""CIAgent entry point: one query in, final answer text out."""
# import the user's agent and invoke it ONCE, no chat history
...
return final_answer_text
Rules:
- Return the final answer string. CIAgent wraps the call in its own trace capture, so LLM calls and tool calls are recorded automatically — do not build Trace objects unless the repo already produces them.
- Fresh context per call: no shared history between queries.
- Reuse the repo's own config/env loading so the runner works from the repo root.
- Verify it imports and answers before going further:
python -c "from agentci_runner import run_for_agentci; print(run_for_agentci('hello'))".
3. Choose queries
Write agentci_queries.txt, one query per line — 8 to 15 queries:
- Cover the agent's main jobs (mine the README, docs, knowledge base, prompts, and existing tests for what it is supposed to handle).
- Include at least 2 out-of-scope queries the agent should refuse or deflect.
- Prefer queries whose correct answers contain hard facts (prices, dates, limits, names) — those become deterministic checks in step 6.
4. Cost gate — ask before running live
Recording baselines runs the real agent once per query, on the user's API keys.
State the query count and a cost ballpark, and ask the user to confirm
before step 5. If there are no API keys or the user declines: write
agentci_spec.yaml by hand instead (same queries, runner: set), validate with
ciagent test --mock, and tell the user which step to resume later.
5. Record golden baselines
ciagent bootstrap --runner agentci_runner:run_for_agentci \
--queries agentci_queries.txt --agent <agent-name> --yes
This runs every query, saves each trace as a golden baseline under
./baselines/<agent-name>/, and writes agentci_spec.yaml with path and cost
budgets derived from the recorded traces. Read the printed answers as they
stream by — if an answer is visibly wrong, that query should not be golden:
fix the agent or the query, delete that baseline file, and rerun.
6. Add correctness checks
The generated spec has path and cost budgets but no correctness checks. Add a
correctness: block per query, derived from the recorded baseline answers and
the repo's docs/KB — never from what you wish the agent said:
correctness:
expected_in_answer: ["30 days"] # hard facts, AND
any_expected_in_answer: ["$9.95", "9.95"] # phrasing variants, OR
not_in_answer: ["I don't know"] # forbidden content
Check facts, not phrasing. If the repo has a knowledge-base directory, run
ciagent generate-checks --kb <dir> --dry-run and review its candidates —
every surviving candidate was already validated against the recorded goldens.
7. Verify
ciagent test --mock # structure check, zero API calls
ciagent test --yes --format json # live run (covered by step 4 approval)
ciagent test --runs 3 --yes # stability report
Exit codes: 0 = pass (flaky-but-passing is 0), 1 = correctness failure in every
run, 2 = infra/config error. In the stability report, flips labeled
agent-variance mean the agent's answer changed (an agent problem); flips
labeled judge-flake mean the eval itself is unstable (a check/judge problem).
If a check fails, fix the agent or fix a factually wrong check. Do not loosen a correct check to make the run green — report the failure to the user instead.
8. Wire CI and hand off
ciagent initscaffolds a GitHub Actions workflow (add--hookfor a pre-push hook if the user wants it).- Commit: runner,
agentci_queries.txt,agentci_spec.yaml,baselines/, and the workflow. - Tell the user: how many goldens were recorded, the suite score, anything
flaky (with its flip source), and that
ciagent test --runs 3is the command to watch after future agent changes.
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