dot-ai-evals 0.1.7

Zero-config, repo-aware AI evaluation.

ai-evals

Zero-config, repo-aware, model-agnostic AI evaluation.

Status: v0.1.0 — Phases 1–4 (static analysis, scaffolding, judge gateway, golden-set bootstrapper, run execution & insights). See .kilo/plans/New_idea.md for the vision and .kilo/plans/ai-evals-cli-and-system-design.md for the full system design.

Install

pipx install dot-ai-evals      # recommended
# or, for development:
pip install -e ".[dev]"

litellm, instructor, and anyio are core dependencies — no extra judge extra is needed to use the judge gateway.

Quick start

ai-evals init                       # scan repo, scaffold eval/
ai-evals bootstrap -- pytest -q     # capture real runtime traces
ai-evals run                        # score the suite against the golden set
ai-evals diff --against last        # show metric regressions + narratives

Run ai-evals --help to see all commands.

Ollama setup (default judge)

The default judge is the local model ollama/qwen2.5-coder:7b. Follow these steps to set it up:

1. Install Ollama from https://ollama.com.

2. Start the local server (default port 11434):

   ollama serve
   

3. Pull the default judge model:

   ollama pull qwen2.5-coder:7b
   

4. Run as normal — ai-evals init, ai-evals analyze, etc. use the local judge automatically.

If Ollama is unavailable, either set a cloud API key (e.g. OPENAI_API_KEY for the regression judge openai/gpt-4o-mini) or fall back to the rules-based rubric engine (detection/scaffolding only — no judge calls):

ai-evals init --rubric-engine rules

Set a different judge with --judge-default <model> (e.g. ollama/llama3.2:3b or openai/gpt-4o-mini). Override the judge at run time with ai-evals run --judge <model>.

Capabilities

Phase 1 — detection & scaffolding

• ai-evals init — scans a Python repo, detects OpenAI / LangChain / ChromaDB usage, writes eval/rubrics.yaml, eval/tests.py, eval/golden_set.json, and .ai-evals/.
• ai-evals analyze — re-runs detection, proposes a merged rubrics.yaml.
• ai-evals doctor — environment + config sanity check (incl. a judge-gateway probe; the probe is optional and never forces exit 1 on its own).
• ai-evals config --print — show resolved configuration with source per key.

Phase 2 — model-agnostic judge gateway

• ai-evals judge --list — show configured judges (default / regression_check / fallback[*]) with a best-effort reachability ping.
• ai-evals judge --ping <model> — one-shot reachability probe of a single model id.
• ai-evals judge --prompt <text> --model <m> — one-shot judge completion.
• Async transport via litellm.acompletion + instructor; content-addressed cache under .ai-evals/cache/judge/ (skipped with --no-cache). Two prompt tiers — CoT (complex/frontier models) and binary checklist (local/small models) — selected from config/defaults.py:COMPLEX_MODEL_HINTS (overridable via judge.tiering.complex_models in rubrics.yaml).
• Built-in judge metrics: argument_accuracy, hallucination_rate, context_precision (partial: deterministic signal + judge tiebreak), faithfulness. Non-judge latency_p50 / latency_p95 are computed by the runner. Custom metrics load from the ai_eval.metrics entry-point group.

Phase 3 — automated golden-set bootstrapper

• ai-evals bootstrap -- <command> — captures real runtime traces (one golden example per top-level task invocation; nested LLM/retrieve calls fold into trace.calls) by monkey-patching OpenAI / LangChain / ChromaDB / Pinecone in a child subprocess via a generated sitecustomize.py. Each framework patch is independently skippable when the framework isn't installed.
• Merges into eval/golden_set.json with --append/--replace, --max, and --task filters. Captures are flushed even if the child crashes. Secrets in captured args/results are redacted.
• --no-instrument is reserved for a future OTEL path and currently exits 2.

Phase 4 — run execution & insights

• ai-evals run — re-imports task modules, calls the entry symbol per golden example, scores each metric via the judge gateway, aggregates, and saves a run record (.ai-evals/runs/<id>/run.json) + history. --fail-on-regression exits 3 on threshold breaches. Fresh repos (no baseline) show — for Δ and exit 0. An unregistered metric hard-fails with exit 1 and a fix hint, even though init/analyze only warn.
• ai-evals diff --against last — per-metric Δ table; --explain emits a regression-judge narrative per regressing (metric, example) (one judge call each). Falls back to a deterministic text delta when the regression judge is unavailable, so it never crashes.
• ai-evals report [last] — render a past run as human / json / markdown (--out <file>); --web writes a minimal HTML file and prints a file:// URL.
• ai-evals history [--list|--show <id>|--prune --keep N|--export <file>] — manage .ai-evals/history.json (slim records; full runs under runs/<id>/).

Exit codes

Code	Meaning
0	success
1	general / runtime error
2	usage error (bad flags, missing -- command, --no-input hit a prompt)
3	evaluation failed thresholds (run --fail-on-regression)

Development

pip install -e ".[dev]"          # pytest, ruff, mypy, pytest-timeout, syrupy
ruff check .                     # lint (must be clean)
mypy ai_eval                      # typecheck (pre-existing baseline errors only)
pytest -q --timeout=30            # full suite (fake judge transport — no network)

The test suite uses a fake async judge transport and stubbed frameworks, so it runs fully offline in ~3s. The end-to-end test (tests/test_e2e.py) exercises init → bootstrap → run → diff against a scratch repo and asserts the golden set is populated, a run record is written, and a regression delta is detected.