What is artificial intelligence agent evaluation?

Definition

Artificial intelligence agent evaluation examines more than a final response. It can score tool selection, action order, exception handling, recovery, policy compliance, cost and the actual business outcome of a task.

Real execution traces provide valuable cases because they contain messy edge conditions absent from simple benchmarks. Strong evaluations retain representative failures and are rerun when models, tools, workflows or prompts change.

Acronyms and aliases

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Frequently asked questions

How is agent evaluation different from model evaluation?

Agent evaluation measures a sequence of actions, tools and outcomes, while model evaluation may assess a single prediction or response.

What makes an agent evaluation realistic?

It uses representative tasks, data, tools, permissions and failure conditions and measures the outcome that matters in the actual workflow.

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