eval-generator

A tool that turns a prepared evaluation plan into concrete test cases for an AI agent. It creates capability tests for what the agent should do, trust-and-safety tests for harmful or restricted behavior, and a set for checking future changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create evaluation CSV files and a review document from an evaluation plan, with separate cases for each listed capability and safety requirement.
Why use it?
It converts a planning workbook into files that can be imported into Copilot Studio, Microsoft's tool for building and testing AI agents. This makes the planned checks specific enough to run and review.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microsoft/eval-guide/eval-generator
Any agent
npx skills add microsoft/eval-guide --skill eval-generator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/eval-guide

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 115 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,723 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00115 $0.06723
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.03361
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.01345
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00672

Measured 2d ago against content hash 04e433f19005, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

eval-generator 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 2d 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-generator/SKILL.md · 412 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 412 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

This skill produces the Generate artifact of the /eval-guide lifecycle: importable test cases for Copilot Studio's Evaluation tab plus a .docx test-case report carrying the full manifest for human review and downstream Run/Interpret stages. It is the standalone form of /eval-guide Generate.

In the canonical Practical Guidance on Agent Evaluation: 10-step playbook, this skill delivers Step 2 — Build the Capability Eval Sets and Step 3 — Build the Trust & Safety Eval Sets, and it designs the Step 8 — Regression Suite partition for those sets. Keep the operational stage name Generate as UX scaffolding; use the playbook terms for methodology.

Primary mode — the conversation or attachments contain the populated /eval-suite-planner workbook (eval-suite-<agent-name>-<date>.xlsx). Use 2 . Eval Suite Registry as the source of truth for eval sets, and 1 . Planning for risk tier, owners, gates, lifecycle stage, and source dependencies. Generate one set of cases per capability row and one set per trust & safety row. If only a narrative plan is available, use it as a fallback source.

Fallback mode — no plan in conversation. Accept a plain-English agent description and generate test cases from scratch (6–8 cases minimum), using the same data model and including at least one adversarial / trust & safety scenario.

Maturity callout — Pillar 2 (Build your eval sets): Generate advances Pillar 2 from L100 Initial ("no established eval set") to L300 Systematic ("versioned eval set with coverage purposefully targeted"). The CSV files plus companion manifest are the Pillar 2 artifact. The Step 8 partition also seeds Pillars 3 and 5 for later operation.

Instructions

When invoked as /eval-generator (with or without input):

Step 0 — Detect input mode

Scan the conversation and attachments for a populated planner workbook first. If present, read:

  • 1 . Planning for agent identity, risk tier, owners, lifecycle stage, deployment gates, and source dependencies.
  • 2 . Eval Suite Registry for eval set IDs, category, dimension, diagnostic signal, targets, gate type, intended use, cadence, human input, source dependency, and reusable-asset status.
  • 3 . Run Log only for existing baseline/iteration context, if any.

Read the full file on GitHub · 412 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. 2d ago First seen · 412 lines · 115 tokens per session scan A 04e433f19005

Subscribe to this mod's changes

eval-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/eval-guide (127 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 6,723 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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