Agent Evals Explained

Agent Evals Explained

Is the agent good, and how sure are you?

An interactive guide to measuring agents honestly: pass rates, uncertainty, comparisons and graders, on a synthetic benchmark whose truth is known.

pass@kpass^kk = 1k = 10
Chapter 3: the same agent, “some one of k tries passes” against “all k pass” (80% against 17% at k = 10). Computed by the engine at build time.

How this is checkedThe estimators are tested against scipy and statsmodels on a synthetic benchmark whose truth is known, and the TypeScript engine in your browser reproduces every Python fixture bit for bit. How it is tested →

What you'll learn

An agent's score is a measurement: a sample of tasks, a few noisy runs on each, and a grader that can be fooled. This site takes the measurement apart. The benchmarks agents are quoted on, from their papers; pass@k against pass^k, best of k against reliable every time; intervals and which of them keep their promise; why two scores a few tenths apart are a tie; how comparing two agents on the same tasks gives a sharper answer for free; then the grader itself (LLM judges and their biases, grading the whole trajectory), the harness the score was measured in, leaked tasks, and what each point of success costs.

The animations are driven by Agent_Loop_Sim's evals module, identically in Python and in your browser: a synthetic benchmark under an item-response model, and the standard estimators, each tested against scipy and statsmodels. On a 500-task benchmark, two agents run on separate tasks must differ by about 8.3 points before a test at 80% power reliably tells them apart; and the same simulated model scores from 44% to 74% depending only on its harness. No language model runs anywhere.

Part of a family of sixteen companion sites in four tracks, all in the site menu above: Foundations (Decoder, Training), Hardware (Kernels, Systolic, Accelerators, Racks), Inference (Serving, Architectures, Numerics, Trade-offs) and Agents (Harnesses, Protocols, Context, Orchestration, Evals, Security). It is the fifth of the six agent sites. How this one was built, and how to check it: about.