Agent skill

Agent Evaluation

by seb1n in seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills

Design reproducible evaluations for AI agents with representative task sets, explicit rubrics, appropriate graders, baselines, regression gates, and failure analysis.

MITAuto-check passedEducation

Install Agent Evaluation

skills CLI
$ npx skills add seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills --skill agent-evaluation -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills agent-evaluation --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/seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/agent-engineering/agent-evaluation .claude/skills/agent-evaluation && 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
agent-evaluation
GitHub stars
206
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
693 words
Files
4 (incl. scripts, references)
Skills in repo
92
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Design reproducible evaluations for AI agents with representative task sets, explicit rubrics, appropriate graders, baselines, regression gates, and failure analysis.

  • Works in 5 steps: An evaluation brief with scope, risks,… → A dataset manifest with provenance,… → A scoring specification with rubrics,… → …
  • Defining agent quality
  • SKILL.md covers Use when, Inputs, Output contract and Workflow, plus 4 more sections
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls python3

What it does

Agent Evaluation is an agent skill from seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills. Design reproducible evaluations for AI agents with representative task sets, explicit rubrics, appropriate graders, baselines, regression gates, and failure analysis. Use when defining agent quality, comparing prompts or models, validating a release, measuring tool-use reliability, investigating regressions, or deciding whether an agent is ready for production.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 6 other files, including scripts and reference files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`, `references/evaluation-patterns.md` and `scripts/aggregate_results.py`).

It sits in Education, covering Agent evaluation and testing, Quizzes and assessments and Root cause analysis. The repository describes itself as: 103 ready-to-use AI agent skills for Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, and other Agent Skills-compatible tools. Complete SKILL.md… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Defining agent quality
  • Comparing prompts
  • Validating a release
  • Measuring tool-use reliability

Example prompts

  • “/agent-evaluation”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

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

  1. An evaluation brief with scope, risks, hypotheses, and frozen system versions.
  2. A dataset manifest with provenance, categories, splits, and contamination controls.
  3. A scoring specification with rubrics, graders, thresholds, and tie-breaking rules.
  4. Reproducible run settings, aggregate results, uncertainty, and baseline deltas.
  5. A failure taxonomy, representative cases, evidence limits, and a decision memo for the accountable release owner.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 75865a5. 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

    Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python3

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    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

Agent Evaluation loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.3k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 95 tokens; SKILL.md has 693 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~95
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~2.3k

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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills at commit 75865a5, republished under its MIT licence (© seb1n). 693 words, ~1,423 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/agent-evaluation/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 3 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
agent-evaluation
description
Design reproducible evaluations for AI agents with representative task sets, explicit rubrics, appropriate graders, baselines, regression gates, and failure analysis. Use when defining agent quality, comparing prompts or models, validating a release, measuring tool-use reliability, investigating regressions, or deciding whether an agent is ready for production.

Agent Evaluation

Build evidence that can inform a release owner, not a showcase of favorable examples or a safety certification.

Use when

  • Define quality before building or changing an agent.
  • Compare prompts, models, tools, memory strategies, or orchestration patterns.
  • Convert production failures into regression cases.
  • Establish a repeatable release gate or human-review plan.

Inputs

Collect the agent objective, users, supported tasks, unacceptable outcomes, current baseline, execution environment, available traces, and evaluation budget. State assumptions when an input is unavailable.

Output contract

Produce:

  1. An evaluation brief with scope, risks, hypotheses, and frozen system versions.
  2. A dataset manifest with provenance, categories, splits, and contamination controls.
  3. A scoring specification with rubrics, graders, thresholds, and tie-breaking rules.
  4. Reproducible run settings, aggregate results, uncertainty, and baseline deltas.
  5. A failure taxonomy, representative cases, evidence limits, and a decision memo for the accountable release owner.

Workflow

  1. Define the unit under test and the decision the evaluation must support. Separate model quality from tool, retrieval, policy, and infrastructure failures.
  2. Convert user goals and risks into observable criteria. Include task success, safety, latency, cost, and escalation quality only when relevant.
  3. Build representative cases from real distributions where permitted. Add boundary, long-tail, malformed-input, tool-failure, and adversarial cases. Keep a holdout set isolated from prompt iteration.
  4. Select the least subjective reliable grader. Prefer deterministic checks for structured facts, rubric-bound model graders for semantic quality, and blinded human review for high-impact or disputed cases. Read evaluation-patterns.md when selecting graders or gates.
  5. Freeze prompts, model versions, tools, data snapshots, seeds when supported, retries, and timeouts. Run the candidate and baseline under equivalent conditions; repeat stochastic cases.
  6. Inspect case-level failures before trusting aggregates. Slice results by task, risk, language, tool, and user cohort where sample sizes permit.
  7. Set a release gate that combines minimum critical-case performance, non-regression against baseline, and operational limits. Label underpowered results as inconclusive.
  8. Save failed production-like cases as regression fixtures without exposing private data.

Use python3 scripts/aggregate_results.py results.jsonl --score-min 0 --score-max 1 --require-passed to validate identities and declared score bounds, then produce a descriptive summary. Add --baseline old --candidate new when records use those variant labels. Add --output summary.json for an atomic file write; the destination must be a new path or regular file and cannot alias the input through spelling, resolution, a symlink, or a hard link. The script reports explicit observed, missing, and total pass-rate denominators plus approximate uncertainty; it does not certify safety, representativeness, significance, or release readiness.

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Safety and permissions

  • Do not send private prompts, customer data, credentials, or proprietary outputs to an external grader without authorization and an approved retention policy.
  • Do not run evaluations against production systems, spend paid API budget, or trigger state-changing tools without explicit permission.
  • Require qualified human review for medical, legal, financial, employment, safety, or access-control decisions.
  • Treat grader scores as evidence, not ground truth; disclose model-grader identity and conflicts.

Verification

  • Confirm every release criterion maps to at least one case and every critical risk has a negative test.
  • Verify train, development, and holdout cases do not overlap semantically or by source identifier.
  • Re-run a sample manually and compare grader decisions against the rubric.
  • Check that baseline and candidate used identical conditions and that reported denominators identify all missing pass labels, failures, and timeouts. Use --require-passed when every record must contribute to the pass-rate denominator.
  • Confirm the report preserves case-level evidence needed to reproduce material claims.

Failure handling

  • If representative data is missing, run a clearly labeled exploratory evaluation and request data before setting a production gate.
  • If graders disagree, tighten the rubric, blind the comparison, and adjudicate a stratified sample.
  • If results are unstable, increase repetitions, isolate nondeterministic dependencies, and report confidence intervals or ranges.
  • If a critical case fails, block the release regardless of the overall average until an authorized owner accepts the risk.

Example

For “compare two versions of a customer-support agent,” define resolution correctness, citation fidelity, policy compliance, escalation judgment, latency, and cost; create normal, ambiguous, multilingual, prompt-injection, and unavailable-tool cases; blind the version labels; run both versions three times; aggregate by case category; inspect regressions; and return a ship, hold, or limited-rollout decision with evidence.

© seb1n, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files (scripts, references) in agent-engineering/agent-evaluation of seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • references/evaluation-patterns.md
  • scripts/aggregate_results.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 75865a5

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Questions about Agent Evaluation

What does Agent Evaluation do?

Design reproducible evaluations for AI agents with representative task sets, explicit rubrics, appropriate graders, baselines, regression gates, and failure analysis. Agent Evaluation is an agent skill from seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills. Design reproducible evaluations for AI agents with representative task sets, explicit rubrics, appropriate graders, baselines, regression gates, and failure analysis.

When should I use Agent Evaluation?

Agent Evaluation fits situations like: defining agent quality; comparing prompts; validating a release; measuring tool-use reliability.

How do I install Agent Evaluation in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills --skill agent-evaluation -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (agent-engineering/agent-evaluation in seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills) into .claude/skills/agent-evaluation in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Agent Evaluation in Codex?

Run `npx skills add seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills --skill agent-evaluation -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (agent-engineering/agent-evaluation in seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills) into .agents/skills/agent-evaluation in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Agent Evaluation 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 seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills --skill agent-evaluation -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/agent-evaluation, .gemini/skills/agent-evaluation, .github/skills/agent-evaluation and .opencode/skills/agent-evaluation in your project.

What does Agent Evaluation need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Agent Evaluation needs Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (python3). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Agent Evaluation 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 Agent Evaluation 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. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Agent Evaluation use?

Agent Evaluation is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Agent Evaluation use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 870 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Agent Evaluation?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Agent Evaluation: Skill Judge (shareAI-lab/lab-skills, 314 stars), Create Custom Grader (NVIDIA/SkillEvaluator, 544 stars), Diagnosing Superpowers Sessions (obra/superpowers, 296k stars) and Copilot Session Failure Analysis (dotnet/maui, 23k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Agent Evaluation?

seb1n (a GitHub user) maintains it in seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills, which has 206 GitHub stars. The repository holds 92 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 9, 2026.

Source: seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.