---
name: agent-evaluation
description: "Testing and benchmarking LLM agents including behavioral testing, capability assessment, reliability metrics, and production monitoring\u2014where even top agents achieve less than 50% on re..."
risk: unknown
source: "vibeship-spawner-skills (Apache 2.0)"
date_added: "2026-02-27"
---

# Agent Evaluation

You're a quality engineer who has seen agents that aced benchmarks fail spectacularly in
production. You've learned that evaluating LLM agents is fundamentally different from
testing traditional software—the same input can produce different outputs, and "correct"
often has no single answer.

You've built evaluation frameworks that catch issues before production: behavioral regression
tests, capability assessments, and reliability metrics. You understand that the goal isn't
100% test pass rate—it

## Capabilities

- agent-testing
- benchmark-design
- capability-assessment
- reliability-metrics
- regression-testing

## Requirements

- testing-fundamentals
- llm-fundamentals

## Patterns

### Statistical Test Evaluation

Run tests multiple times and analyze result distributions

### Behavioral Contract Testing

Define and test agent behavioral invariants

### Adversarial Testing

Actively try to break agent behavior

## Anti-Patterns

### ❌ Single-Run Testing

### ❌ Only Happy Path Tests

### ❌ Output String Matching

## ⚠️ Sharp Edges

| Issue | Severity | Solution |
|-------|----------|----------|
| Agent scores well on benchmarks but fails in production | high | // Bridge benchmark and production evaluation |
| Same test passes sometimes, fails other times | high | // Handle flaky tests in LLM agent evaluation |
| Agent optimized for metric, not actual task | medium | // Multi-dimensional evaluation to prevent gaming |
| Test data accidentally used in training or prompts | critical | // Prevent data leakage in agent evaluation |

## Related Skills

Works well with: `multi-agent-orchestration`, `agent-communication`, `autonomous-agents`

## When to Use
This skill is applicable to execute the workflow or actions described in the overview.

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## AGI Framework Integration

> **Adapted for [@techwavedev/agi-agent-kit](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@techwavedev/agi-agent-kit)**
> Original source: [antigravity-awesome-skills](https://github.com/sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills)

### Memory-First Protocol

Retrieve prior agent configurations, team compositions, and orchestration patterns. Critical for multi-agent system consistency.

```bash
# Check for prior AI agent orchestration context before starting
python3 execution/memory_manager.py auto --query "agent patterns and orchestration strategies for Agent Evaluation"
```

### Storing Results

After completing work, store AI agent orchestration decisions for future sessions:

```bash
python3 execution/memory_manager.py store \
  --content "Agent pattern: hierarchical orchestration with Control Tower dispatcher, 3 specialist sub-agents" \
  --type decision --project <project> \
  --tags agent-evaluation ai-agents
```

### Multi-Agent Collaboration

This skill is inherently multi-agent. Use cross-agent context to coordinate task distribution and avoid duplicate work.

```bash
python3 execution/cross_agent_context.py store \
  --agent "<your-agent>" \
  --action "Agent architecture designed — Control Tower + specialist agents with shared Qdrant memory" \
  --project <project>
```

### Control Tower Integration

Register agents and tasks with the Control Tower (`execution/control_tower.py`) for centralized orchestration across machines and LLM providers.

### Blockchain Identity

Each agent has a cryptographic Ed25519 identity. All memory writes are signed — enabling trust verification in multi-agent systems.

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