build-agent-evals

build-agent-evals is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bikeread/promethos. It costs 24 tokens per session (778 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A small test pack for checking whether an AI agent behaves correctly in important situations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose the riskiest behaviors, create a few meaningful test cases, and check planning, tool use, recovery, memory, approvals, or output accuracy.
Why use it?
It helps catch regressions—new changes that break old behavior—and prevents one successful demo from creating false confidence.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to choose the riskiest behaviors, create a few meaningful test cases, and check planning, tool use, recovery, memory, approvals, or output accuracy.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bikeread/promethos/build-agent-evals
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add bikeread/promethos --skill build-agent-evals
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bikeread/promethos

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 778 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 $0.00024 $0.00778
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00389
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00156
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00078

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0fd14c9dc7df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

build-agent-evals 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 9d 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.

skills/build-agent-evals/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Goal

Create a small but meaningful evaluation set that can catch regressions and false confidence early.

Inputs

  • Agent goals and key behaviors
  • Known failure modes
  • Available test harnesses, traces, or manual checks

Non-Goals

  • Building a giant benchmark suite before the core workflow is stable
  • Equating one happy-path demo with real evaluation coverage

Workflow

Trigger signals

  • Agent is nearing completion but has no test cases
  • User asks "怎么验" or "how do we know it works"
  • User asks for the "smallest eval pack", "minimal eval harness", or "what should we test first"
  • Behavior was recently changed and nothing checks for regressions
  • Agent has been deployed but no one defined what "working correctly" means

1. Choose the behaviors that matter most

Identify the actions or decisions that would make the agent untrustworthy if they failed: planning quality, tool use, recovery, memory handling, approval respect, or output correctness. Rank them by user impact and by how likely they are to regress. Success criteria: The eval scope is centered on real risk, not on what is easy to test.

2. Build a minimal scenario set

Create a compact mix of cases that covers the important behaviors: a normal success, an ambiguous request, a tool failure, a recovery path, and any context-pressure case that is part of the real task. If the agent can take consequential actions, include at least one negative case for refusal, checkpointing, escalation, or approval-boundary compliance. If the user asks for the smallest useful pack, cut optional cases aggressively instead of letting the battery drift into a benchmark wishlist. Keep each scenario specific enough that a human can tell what good behavior looks like. Success criteria: The harness exercises the agent across success, failure, and recovery instead of only the easiest path.

3. Define scoring and judgment rules

Write what counts as pass, concerns, fail, or unacceptable, and note what artifacts a reviewer should inspect to make the call consistently. If a metric is used, explain what behavior it is actually standing in for. Success criteria: Another reviewer can score the same run without inventing their own rubric.

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 88 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 0fd14c9dc7df

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build-agent-evals is a skill published in the GitHub repository bikeread/promethos (33 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 778 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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