Official agent skill

Evals Create Suite

by elastic in elastic/kibana

Scaffold a new LLM evaluation suite package with Playwright config, evaluate fixture, and package files.

OfficialCustom licenceAuto-check passedAI & LLM Engineering

Install Evals Create Suite

skills CLI
$ npx skills add elastic/kibana --skill evals-create-suite -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install elastic/kibana evals-create-suite --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elastic/kibana.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/evals-create-suite .claude/skills/evals-create-suite && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
evals-create-suite
GitHub stars
21k
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
528 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
40
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Scaffold a new LLM evaluation suite package with Playwright config, evaluate fixture, and package files.

  • Works in 4 steps: Run pnpm kbn bootstrap to register the… → Verify the suite appears: node… → Create your first spec file under evals/… → …
  • Creating a new eval suite
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Inputs to Collect, Do NOT Use node scripts/scout… and Directory Layout, plus 5 more sections
  • Calls node and pnpm

What it does

Evals Create Suite is an agent skill from elastic/kibana, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Scaffold a new LLM evaluation suite package with Playwright config, evaluate fixture, and package files. Use when creating a new eval suite, adding an evals package for a plugin, or setting up the boilerplate for offline LLM evaluations.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.7k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`).

It sits in AI & LLM Engineering, covering LLM evaluation. It works with Playwright and Elasticsearch. The repository describes itself as: Your window into all of your data.

When your agent uses it

  • Creating a new eval suite
  • Adding an evals package for a plugin
  • Setting up the boilerplate for offline LLM evaluations

Example prompts

  • “/evals-create-suite”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Run pnpm kbn bootstrap to register the new package.
  2. Verify the suite appears: node scripts/evals list.
  3. Create your first spec file under evals/ (see the evals-write-spec skill).
  4. Run locally: node scripts/evals start --model --judge .

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ee7c86b. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • node
    • pnpm

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use pnpm, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Evals Create Suite loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 64 tokens; SKILL.md has 528 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~64
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.7k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 528 words (~1,675 tokens).

“Eval suites live in dedicated kbn-evals-suite- packages. Each suite is a self-contained Playwright project that uses the evaluate fixture from @kbn/evals to run LLM experiments with datasets, tasks, and evaluators.”

— opening of SKILL.md by elastic, Custom licence
name
evals-create-suite
disable-model-invocation
true

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in .agents/skills/evals-create-suite of elastic/kibana.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ee7c86b

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Evals Contextzgsm-ai/costrict4.4k1 repos~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0

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Questions about Evals Create Suite

What does Evals Create Suite do?

Scaffold a new LLM evaluation suite package with Playwright config, evaluate fixture, and package files. Evals Create Suite is an agent skill from elastic/kibana, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Scaffold a new LLM evaluation suite package with Playwright config, evaluate fixture, and package files.

When should I use Evals Create Suite?

Evals Create Suite fits situations like: creating a new eval suite; adding an evals package for a plugin; setting up the boilerplate for offline LLM evaluations.

How do I install Evals Create Suite in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add elastic/kibana --skill evals-create-suite -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/evals-create-suite in elastic/kibana) into .claude/skills/evals-create-suite in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Evals Create Suite in Codex?

Run `npx skills add elastic/kibana --skill evals-create-suite -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/evals-create-suite in elastic/kibana) into .agents/skills/evals-create-suite in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Evals Create Suite in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add elastic/kibana --skill evals-create-suite -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/evals-create-suite, .gemini/skills/evals-create-suite, .github/skills/evals-create-suite and .opencode/skills/evals-create-suite in your project.

What does Evals Create Suite need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Evals Create Suite needs the command-line tools its instructions call (node and pnpm).

Does Evals Create Suite access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Evals Create Suite safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Evals Create Suite use?

Evals Create Suite has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Evals Create Suite use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Evals Create Suite?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Evals Create Suite: Phoenix Pxi Playwright (Arize-ai/phoenix, 12k stars), Eval Loop (jacob-dietle/context-os, 111 stars), QA Methodology (magnus919/agent-skills, 113 stars) and Caveman Optimization Evaluator (JuliusBrussee/caveman, 110k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Evals Create Suite?

elastic (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in elastic/kibana, which has 21,310 GitHub stars. The repository holds 40 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: elastic/kibana on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.