eval-surfer

eval-surfer is a skill for Claude Code from di37/EvalSurfer. It costs 81 tokens per session (2,203 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for evaluating AI applications such as chatbots, retrieval systems, agents, and language-model pipelines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create evaluation rubrics and reports, review retrieved-answer quality, assess agent tool use, or calculate operational metrics.
Why use it?
It turns available inputs into a tailored scorecard, so an evaluation checks relevant qualities such as correctness, groundedness, safety, tool use, speed, or cost.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to create evaluation rubrics and reports, review retrieved-answer quality, assess…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/di37/evalsurfer/eval-surfer
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 di37/EvalSurfer --skill eval-surfer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/di37/EvalSurfer

Made for: Claude Code.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,203 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 $0.00081 $0.02203
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01102
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00441
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00220

Measured 6d ago against content hash c5f2d49dd99a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

eval-surfer 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 6d 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.

.claude/skills/eval-surfer/SKILL.md · 166 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

EvalSurfer

EvalSurfer is a skill-first evaluation workflow that implements the CIMAA framework — Core, Interface, Metrics, Analysis, Assurance. The skill drives the assessment; the framework definitions, Python functions, and CLI are supporting utilities.

Use This Skill When

  • The user asks to evaluate an AI application, answer, RAG pipeline, agent, chatbot, or production LLM workflow.
  • The user needs a rubric, scorecard, benchmark, eval report, or quality gate.
  • The task involves correctness, relevance, completeness, instruction following, groundedness, citation accuracy, tool use, multi-turn behavior, safety, latency, TTFT, cost, or reliability.

Workflow

  1. Clarify the evaluation target: answer, conversation, RAG run, agent trace, or production logs.
  2. Scope adaptively. Infer which categories and criteria apply from the inputs that are actually present instead of evaluating everything. The planner decides this deterministically:
echo '{"sample": {"query": "...", "answer": "...", "retrieved_docs": ["..."]}}' | python -m evalsurfer.interface.cli.plan - --pretty

It returns the applicable criteria (with a reason for each skip) and a coverage score. The three rubric categories use report section keys/nesting, not CIMAA layer nesting or ownership:

  • Quality (agent-judged; nested under report.metrics.quality): correctness, relevance, completeness, instruction following, RAG quality, tool use, and multi-turn behavior. Distinct from Metrics reference metrics (BLEU / ROUGE / …).
  • Operational (Metrics layer; auto-scored from traces): the five numbers of inference — TTFT, inter-token latency, throughput (TPS), P99 tail latency, and $/1M tokens — plus end-to-end and under-load latency, cost per request, token efficiency, and failure rate.
  • Safety (Assurance layer; agent-judged + red-team): toxicity, harmful content, bias/fairness, PII leakage, and jailbreak resistance — assessed by default; opt out only for low-risk targets, and record why.
  1. Assess only the applicable criteria. Record each skipped criterion with the planner's reason under Not assessed; never guess.
  2. Use spec/framework.yaml or spec/framework.json for the machine-readable rubric.
  3. If operational traces are provided, calculate metrics with the CLI:

Read the full file on GitHub · 166 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. 6d ago First seen · 166 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A c5f2d49dd99a

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eval-surfer is a skill published in the GitHub repository di37/EvalSurfer (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 2,203 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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