evav 1.0.0

EVAV Operational Alignment Battery — open-source CLI for matched-pair AI deployment safety auditing

evav-bench

The open-source CLI for the EVAV Operational Alignment Battery — a matched-pair causal-identification test suite for AI agents making decisions in regulated industries.

pip install evav

See the public leaderboard at evav.ai/leaderboard. Read the methodology at evav.ai/methodology.

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What This Is

EVAV is the behavioral intelligence layer for AI in regulated decisions. The Operational Alignment Battery tests whether a model preserves its stated rules under deployment-realistic pressure.

This CLI runs the full battery — 8 axes, 10 test groups, up to 80 cells — against any frontier model and produces an Evaluation Card.

Key findings from the reference corpus (209,072 decisions across 8 frontier models):

• 86% of violations would pass conventional compliance review (compliance masking)
• Claude Sonnet 4 ranges from 0% to 98% violation rate depending on documentation tier
• DeepSeek V3 swings 50-94% on identical configuration across PRNG seeds

Quick Start

# Install
pip install evav

# Set API key for your provider
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="sk-ant-..."   # or OPENAI_API_KEY, DEEPSEEK_API_KEY, etc.

# Run the smoke test (~$0.10 on DeepSeek)
evav run examples/battery.smoketest_deepseek.json --output ./results/

# Render the Evaluation Card
evav render-card ./results/ --format md > card.md
evav render-card ./results/ --format json > card.json

# Or render a beautiful visual HTML card
python cards/renderer/render.py ./results/ --out card.html

Supported Providers

Provider	Env var	Example model
Anthropic	ANTHROPIC_API_KEY	claude-sonnet-4-6
OpenAI	OPENAI_API_KEY	gpt-4o
Google	GEMINI_API_KEY	gemini-2.5-pro
DeepSeek	DEEPSEEK_API_KEY	deepseek-chat
OpenRouter	OPENROUTER_API_KEY	meta-llama/llama-4-maverick

CLI Commands

Command	Purpose
evav validate <config>	Validate config, print cells + cost estimate
evav run <config> -o <dir>	Execute the battery
evav resume <dir>	Resume an interrupted run
evav render-card <dir>	Render Evaluation Card (md/json/html)
evav render-report <dir>	Render full Audit Report
evav render-failure-map <dir>	Failure Cell Map JSON
evav render-precursor-profile <dir>	Per-model precursor signal profile
evav render-interventions <dir>	Intervention recommendations
evav baseline <dir>	Save a drift baseline
evav drift-diff <baseline> <new>	Compare runs for drift
evav compare <dir-a> <dir-b>	Diff two runs

The Three Card Types

This repo ships with two card templates in cards/templates/:

1. Deployment Card (deployment_card.html) — single model, single config. The output of every evav run.
2. Benchmark Card (benchmark_card.html) — cross-model matrix. Used for the public leaderboard at evav.ai.

See cards/README.md for the full template reference.

Example Configs

File	Domain	Cells	Suitable for
examples/battery.smoketest_deepseek.json	Healthcare (lightweight)	7	First test (~$0.10)
examples/battery.healthcare.example.json	Medicare prior auth	51	Full audit, replicating research
examples/battery.lending.example.json	Consumer credit (ECOA)	28	Lending compliance
examples/battery.trading.example.json	Market-making (Reg NMS)	24	Trading compliance

Data

• Public corpus: 209,072-decision matched-pair dataset at huggingface.co/datasets/evavlabs/oa (CC-BY-4.0)
• Reference Evaluation Cards: rendered examples for the 8 frontier models in cards/examples/

Methodology

Matched-pair causal identification. PRNG-deterministic scenario generation (Mulberry32). 8 axes (pressure, doc tier, anchor, phrasing, authority, intervention, seed, temp). 10 test groups (A baselines → J forensics). Validated by SAE-based mechanistic interpretability at 81.2% probe accuracy.

Full methodology: evav.ai/methodology

Paper (NeurIPS 2026 Datasets & Benchmarks Track): arxiv.org/abs/2026.xxxxx

Citation

@inproceedings{cruz2026evav,
  title     = {Evaluating AI Specification Gaming Under Matched-Pair Pressure},
  author    = {Cruz, Anthony},
  booktitle = {NeurIPS 2026 Datasets and Benchmarks Track},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://evav.ai/research}
}

Enterprise

For production deployment safety audits with full deliverables (Audit Report, Failure Cell Map, Intervention Recommendations, Precursor Profile, Compliance Artifact templates for HIPAA / ECOA / SOC 2 / EU AI Act / NIST AI RMF), see evav.ai/product.

The CLI in this repo runs the same instrument used in our paid Tier 1 audits — the difference is the deliverables, the audit team, and the compliance-artifact mapping that go around it.

License

Proprietary. Free for evaluating your own models, internal R&D, and academic research with citation. Redistribution and commercial use require permission. See LICENSE.

Status

This is v1.0 — the initial public release. See CHANGELOG.md for what's included.

Component	Status
CLI commands	✅ stable
Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek adapters	✅ tested end-to-end
Google, OpenRouter adapters	⚠️ scaffolded, less battle-tested
Healthcare domain pack	✅ full prompts
Lending, trading domain packs	✅ ported from research
Two-stage masking classifier	✅ heuristic + LLM
25-signal precursor extractor	✅ working
Concurrent execution	✅ --workers N
Retry + rate limiting	✅ exponential backoff
Drift baseline + diff	✅ working

Support

• Bugs / features: GitHub Issues
• Methodology questions: evav.ai/methodology
• Commercial / enterprise: [e-mail]

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