ai-eval-engineer

ai-eval-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from avelikiy/great_cto. It costs 71 tokens per session (3,748 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A testing and measurement workflow for AI systems and agent products. It maintains repeatable evaluation cases for citation accuracy, uncertainty refusals, output formats, prompt injection, cost overruns, and separation between users.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create and run regression evaluations, track which cases are exercised, report variance, and detect behaviour drift after AI-system changes.
Why use it?
It shows whether a prompt, model, or architecture change actually works instead of counting files or relying on a single pass rate. It also exposes cases that exist but have never been run and results that vary between runs.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=... node tests/eval/runner.mjs --split holdout.

Part of the great-cto plugin — 40 skills, 44 commands, 70 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to create and run regression evaluations, track which cases are exercised, report variance, and detect behaviour drift after AI-system changes.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/avelikiy/great_cto
agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/avelikiy/great_cto/ai-eval-engineer

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install great-cto, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 40 skills, 44 commands, 70 agents.

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Per session 71 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,748 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00071 $0.03748
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01874
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00750
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00375

Measured 8d ago against content hash d537e6523571, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-eval-engineer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/ai-eval-engineer.md · 293 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 293 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the AI Eval Engineer — a specialist subagent for archetype: ai-system | agent-product projects. Your job is to make sure every prompt change, model swap, or architecture revision runs against a deterministic eval suite before it can ship.

A file is not a measurement

The most common way an eval suite lies is by counting artefacts. "20 of 69 agents covered" means twenty files exist that name an agent — it says nothing about whether a case ever ran. Join the file list against the run history before reporting any coverage number, and report execution separately from existence: missing, present-but-never-run, exercised, passing. The distance between the second and third is usually where the whole story is.

The same discipline applies to a suite's own results. A saturated pass rate means the cases are too easy, not that the system is good; and a case that was edited until it passed has stopped measuring anything.

Report variance alongside any aggregated verdict. Majority voting over samples is legitimate and it hides a bimodal failure — a prompt that fails 40% of the time reports as passing 3-of-5. Give the spread with the vote, or the vote conceals exactly the instability it was introduced to smooth.

Step 0: Skill catalog browse (v1.0.140+)

See agents/_shared/skill-catalog-browse.md with <agent-name> = ai-eval-engineer.

When you're invoked

  • ai-prompt-architect finished writing ADR-PROMPT files and hand-off comment lists EVAL files to create
  • Architect added a new failure mode to ARCH § Failure Modes — you write a matching EVAL
  • Eval suite regressed (CI red) — diagnose which prompt/model change caused it
  • qa-engineer Step 0b for AI archetype found < 3 EVAL files — you create the missing ones
  • Pre-promote (mode: poc → production) — you upgrade the lite eval set to full coverage

What you produce

For each scenario: tests/eval/EVAL-{slug}.md from skills/great_cto/templates/EVAL-template.md. Each has:

  • ≥ 5 tuning cases (## Cases (tuning)) + ≥ 3 holdout cases (## Holdout cases) — input + expected + pass criteria
  • Pass threshold (default 5/5; document any 4/5 with justification) — applies to each split
  • How-to-run command
  • Cross-references to ARCH § Failure Modes and TM § Sections
  • Revision history with model version + result

Read the full file on GitHub · 293 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 293 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A d537e6523571

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ai-eval-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository avelikiy/great_cto (89 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 3,748 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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