About — Agent Evaluation
Context and positioning.
Context
Agent evaluation emerges in systems where agent performance must be assessed against defined tasks, objectives, capabilities, or evaluation criteria.
As agents become more adaptive and task-oriented, structured evaluation boundaries are required to determine where performance can be assessed, where capability remains uncertain, and where evaluation cannot be assumed.
Differentiation
Agent evaluation focuses on the relationship between agent performance and defined evaluation criteria.
It emphasizes task fulfillment, capability assessment, and performance measurement without prescribing implementation mechanisms, benchmark systems, or operational procedures.
System Role
Within system architectures, agent evaluation acts as a structural assessment layer for determining how agents perform under specified conditions.
It enables separation between assessable performance, performance under evaluation, and behavior outside established evaluation scope.