Agent Evaluation & Assurance
Measure agent quality, policy compliance, tool-use safety and business outcomes before and after production release.
What this capability solves
Traditional software tests do not capture probabilistic reasoning and changing model behavior. Evaluation must combine deterministic checks, scenario sets, red-team cases and human quality review.
Technology is implemented as an operating capability: architecture, integration, governance, assurance, people, procedures and measurable outcomes are designed together.
Capability model
Modular building blocks allow the scope to start with a focused pilot and expand into an enterprise operating model.
Golden Task Sets
Representative business tasks, edge cases and expected outcomes.
Tool-Use Tests
Correct tool selection, parameters, action order and rejection of unsafe actions.
RAG / Knowledge Tests
Grounding, retrieval authorization, citations and stale-source handling.
Policy Tests
Data handling, approvals, forbidden actions and risk-tier controls.
Adversarial Tests
Prompt manipulation, malicious content and agent/tool abuse scenarios.
Regression Gates
Compare releases/model changes and block unacceptable quality or safety degradation.
How the capability fits together
Final topology, control placement and deployment model are validated during discovery and detailed design.
Controls & governance
- Least-privilege agent/workload identity
- Human approval for high-impact actions
- Approved tool schemas and transaction validation
- Data classification/DLP at model and tool boundaries
- Memory retention and deletion policy
- Comprehensive traces and action provenance
- Evaluation gates before production
- Kill switch, rollback and incident escalation
Priority use cases
- Pre-production release gate
- Model upgrade validation
- Prompt/workflow change
- Agent vendor change
- Periodic assurance
Key deliverables
- Evaluation framework
- Golden datasets
- Scenario library
- Automated/human scorecards
- Risk thresholds
- Release recommendation
- Regression dashboard
Integration considerations
- AAIOS
- Enterprise IAM/workload identity
- APIs and SaaS systems
- Data platform and RAG/vector stores
- Workflow/BPM/ITSM
- SIEM/SOAR and observability
- GRC/evidence systems
- Model endpoints/gateways
Phased delivery
Each phase ends with evidence, acceptance criteria and a decision gate before broader scale-out.
