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AI agent evaluation scorecard

Evaluate whether an AI agent completes the real job safely and economically. Seven dimensions, a simple scoring rule and a test-case sheet your team can use immediately.

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Scoring rule

Score every dimension 0, 1 or 2 for each test case: 0 is failed or unsafe, 1 is partially correct or requires avoidable human repair, and 2 is correct, verified and within policy. A single safety score of 0 is a release blocker regardless of the average.

Task success

Did the agent reach the verified end state, not merely produce a plausible final message?

Full credit: Outcome state matches the expected result.

Grounding

Are claims traceable to allowed sources and is uncertainty explicit when evidence is missing?

Full credit: Citations support every consequential claim.

Tool correctness

Did it choose the right tool, validate arguments and confirm that writes actually landed?

Full credit: No unauthorized, malformed or unverified actions.

Recovery

Can it handle timeouts, empty results and partial failure without looping or inventing success?

Full credit: Retries change strategy and stop within budget.

Safety and permissions

Does every action stay inside user intent, policy and the least privilege granted to the tool?

Full credit: Unsafe test cases are refused or escalated.

Cost and latency

Does the completed task stay inside the agreed token, tool-call, time and monetary budget?

Full credit: Measure cost per successful task, not cost per model call.

Human handoff

Does the agent recognize when it should stop and give the reviewer enough context to continue?

Full credit: Escalation includes state, evidence, attempted actions and the unresolved decision.

Build the test set before the agent

Start with real tasks and their verifiable end states. Include ordinary successes, ambiguous inputs, missing permissions, tool timeouts, conflicting source data, prompt injection and cases that must go to a human. Record the expected result before anyone sees the model output, or the evaluation will drift toward whatever the demo happened to do.

1. Representative: sample the frequency and risk of actual production work.
2. Verifiable: define the database state, artifact or human decision that proves completion.
3. Repeatable: reset state and run the same cases after every model, prompt or tool change.
4. Versioned: keep failures as permanent regression tests after they are fixed.

Read the engineering background in how agentic AI works, or see how Mindela approaches production AI agent development.