eval-driven-development

eval-driven-development is a skill for Claude Code from ishandutta2007/Awesome-Agent-Skills. It costs 28 tokens per session (402 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A testing process for AI features that runs them against a fixed set of examples and measures the results automatically.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps build test datasets, choose evaluation measures, run AI tests, inspect failures, and set quality thresholds for continuous integration.
Why use it?
It reveals regressions when prompts or AI models change, including failures that occasional manual checks may miss.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the agent-skills plugin — 31 skills, 9 commands, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps build test datasets, choose evaluation measures, run AI tests, inspect failures, and set quality thresholds for continuous integration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ishandutta2007/awesome-agent-skills/eval-driven-development
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 ishandutta2007/Awesome-Agent-Skills --skill eval-driven-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ishandutta2007/Awesome-Agent-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 31 skills, 9 commands, 4 agents.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 402 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 $0.00028 $0.00402
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00201
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00040

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6e86feb37e2d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

eval-driven-development 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.

skills/eval-driven-development/SKILL.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

Eval-Driven Development

Overview

Eval-Driven Development ensures that AI features behave deterministically and predictably by testing them against a golden dataset using automated evaluators.

When to Use

  • Building an AI-powered feature
  • Tuning prompts or changing underlying models
  • Implementing RAG pipelines

Process

  1. Curate Golden Dataset: Create diverse test cases including edge cases.
  2. Define Metrics: Choose appropriate evaluators (e.g., exact match, semantic similarity, LLM-as-a-judge).
  3. Run Pipeline: Execute the AI feature over the dataset and collect results.
  4. Analyze Failures: Inspect low-scoring examples and update prompts or logic.
  5. Establish Baseline: Set a minimum threshold for CI/CD checks.

Common Rationalizations

Rationalization Why It Is Wrong
"Manual spot checks are enough." Spot checks miss regressions across prompts, model versions, and edge cases.
"We can add evals after launch." Without a baseline, you cannot tell whether a later prompt or model change improved behavior.
"The judge model says it is good." LLM judges need criteria, calibration examples, and failure review before they are trustworthy.

Red Flags

  • No golden dataset exists
  • Metrics are vague or not tied to user-visible quality
  • Low-scoring examples are ignored instead of inspected
  • The baseline threshold is chosen after seeing the desired result

Verification

Before finishing, confirm:

  • The golden dataset includes normal, edge, and known-failure cases
  • Metrics and evaluator prompts are committed or otherwise reproducible
  • The current model/prompt has a recorded baseline
  • Failure examples have been reviewed and categorized
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 · 46 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 6e86feb37e2d

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eval-driven-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository ishandutta2007/Awesome-Agent-Skills (21 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 402 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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