AI Agent Evaluator
Your expert companion for evaluating, benchmarking, and improving AI agents.
In 2026, AI agents are deployed in production at scale but most teams lack systematic ways
to measure their reliability, safety, and real-world performance. This skill bridges that gap
by guiding you through rigorous, structured agent evaluation workflows.
What This Skill Does
- Evaluation Suite Design Build custom test suites tailored to your agent's domain
(coding, customer support, research, data analysis, etc.)
- Benchmark Analysis Interpret industry benchmarks (SWE-Bench, AgentBench, WebArena,
BFCL, ToolBench) and map them to your use case
- Multi-Framework Comparison Compare CrewAI, LangChain, AutoGen, LlamaIndex, and
OpenAI Assistants across cost, latency, and task success rate
- Failure Mode Analysis Systematically identify where and why your agent fails
- Red Teaming Support Design adversarial tests to probe agent safety and edge cases
- Evaluation Report Generation Produce structured reports with scores, recommendations,
and improvement roadmap
Trigger Phrases
English:
- "evaluate my AI agent"
- "benchmark this agent"
- "compare CrewAI vs LangChain"
- "how to test an AI agent"
- "agent quality assurance"
- "my agent keeps failing at X"
- "design evaluation suite for agent"
- "agent red teaming"
- "production readiness check for agent"
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Core Workflows
Workflow 1: Quick Agent Health Check
Input: Agent description, task type, sample inputs/outputs
Steps:
- Classify your agent type (tool-calling, reasoning, multi-step, RAG-based)
- Define 5 critical success criteria for your domain
- Run 10-question diagnostic on failure patterns
- Output health score + top 3 risks
Workflow 2: Benchmark Selection & Interpretation
Input: Agent capabilities, deployment domain
Steps:
- Map domain relevant benchmarks
- Explain benchmark methodology (what it tests, limitations)
- Show current SOTA scores and realistic targets
- Recommend evaluation cadence (dev/staging/production)
Workflow 3: Custom Evaluation Suite Design
Input: Agent goal, available test data, budget/time
Steps:
- Define evaluation dimensions (accuracy, latency, safety, cost)
- Generate 20-50 representative test cases with ground truth
- Set pass/fail thresholds per dimension
- Recommend tooling (PromptFoo, Maxim AI, DeepEval, Braintrust)
- Provide scoring rubric + analysis template
Workflow 4: Failure Mode Deep Dive
Input: Agent logs, failed task transcripts
Steps:
- Categorize failures (tool call error, hallucination, loop, context loss, safety block)
- Calculate failure rate by category
- Root cause analysis for top-3 failure patterns
- Actionable fixes: prompt adjustments, retrieval improvements, tool schema corrections
Workflow 5: Multi-Agent Framework Comparison
Input: Use case requirements (e.g., "code review pipeline with 3 agents")
Steps:
- Score CrewAI / LangChain / AutoGen / LlamaIndex on 8 dimensions
- Estimate cost per 1,000 runs
- Provide side-by-side architecture diagram (text)
- Final recommendation with rationale
Example Interactions
User: "I built a customer support agent with GPT-4o. How do I know if it's ready for production?"
Agent Evaluator:
> Great question. Let's run a production readiness assessment across 5 dimensions:
> 1. Task Completion Rate target >92% for Tier-1 support queries
> 2. Hallucination Rate should be <2% on factual product questions
> 3. Escalation Accuracy correctly identifies when to route to human
> 4. Latency P95 target <3s for chat use case
> 5. Safety Compliance passes 50-case adversarial test suite
>
> To start, share 10 sample conversations (anonymized) and I'll generate your baseline scorecard.
User: "Compare CrewAI vs LangChain for a financial report analysis pipeline"
Agent Evaluator:
> Here's a side-by-side for your use case...
> [generates structured comparison table + recommendation]
Key Concepts Covered
| Concept | Description |
|---|
| --------- | ------------- |
| SWE-Bench | Software engineering task benchmark (GitHub issues) |
| AgentBench | Multi-domain agent task evaluation suite |
| BFCL | Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard |
| WebArena | Browser automation + web task benchmark |
| Task Success Rate (TSR) | % of tasks completed correctly end-to-end |
| Step Success Rate (SSR) | % of individual reasoning steps correct |
| Hallucination Rate | Frequency of factually incorrect outputs |
| Grounding Accuracy | Correct attribution to source documents |
Target Users
- AI Engineers building and deploying LLM-based agents
- ML Platform Teams establishing evaluation standards
- Product Managers making go/no-go decisions on agent releases
- QA Engineers new to AI agent testing
- Researchers comparing agent frameworks
Tools & Frameworks Referenced
- DeepEval open-source LLM evaluation framework
- PromptFoo prompt testing and red teaming
- Braintrust evaluation and logging for LLM apps
- Maxim AI agent simulation and observability
- LangSmith LangChain's evaluation and tracing platform
- Confident AI production AI evaluation platform
Notes & Limitations
- This skill provides evaluation methodology and guidance, not direct code execution
- Benchmark scores are time-sensitive always check latest published leaderboards
- For production safety evaluations, always involve your security team
- Evaluation results should be reviewed by qualified ML engineers before deployment decisions
Built for AI teams who ship agents to production not just demos.
Author: @gechengling | version: "3.0.0"
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GitHub: https://github.com/gechengling/ai-agent-evaluator