verdict-eval 0.1.1

Evaluation infrastructure for AI agents.

Verdict

Evaluation infrastructure for AI agents.

Demo

Recording coming soon — run ./scripts/demo.sh locally after pip install verdict-eval.

Install

pip install verdict-eval

Quickstart

# Run an evaluation against a built-in adapter
verdict eval --target simple_rag --num-per-category 5

# Compare two adapter versions
verdict diff --target-a simple_rag --target-b path/to/v2.py:MyAdapter --num 10

# Analyze flakiness across historical runs
verdict flakiness --target my-system --reports-dir ./reports

CLI reference

verdict eval

Run a full evaluation against a target adapter.

Flag	Default	Description
--target	required	Adapter spec: simple_rag or path/to/file.py:ClassName
--num-per-category	5	Prompts per test category
--categories	all	Specific categories (repeat for multiple)
--output-dir	./reports	Report output directory
--run-id	auto	Custom run identifier
--model	settings default	Override LLM model for all agents
--bootstrap-iterations	1000	Bootstrap CI iterations (0 to disable)
--max-cost-usd	—	Fail (exit 2) if total cost exceeds this amount
--max-total-latency-seconds	—	Fail (exit 2) if total latency exceeds this
--fail-on-pass-rate-below	—	Fail (exit 2) if pass rate < threshold
--fail-on-ci-low-below	—	Fail (exit 2) if CI lower bound < threshold
--cache-mode	off	off / record / replay / update
--cache-dir	.verdict_cache	Directory for cached responses
--adaptive	off	Run adaptive follow-up probes based on initial responses

verdict diff

Compare two adapter versions against the same generated test suite.

verdict diff \
  --target-a simple_rag \
  --target-b path/to/v2.py:V2Adapter \
  --num 10

verdict flakiness

Analyze judge and target consistency across historical evaluation runs.

verdict flakiness --target my-system --min-runs 5 --reports-dir ./reports

Adaptive mode

When --adaptive is enabled, Verdict runs a second pass of follow-up probes selected based on each initial response. Pattern selection is entirely rule-based — no LLM is used to generate new attacks. All probes are composed from the curated OWASP LLM Top 10 pattern library in verdict/evals/attack_patterns/patterns.json.

This design ensures Verdict remains a defensive evaluation tool. See CONTRIBUTING.md for the security boundary policy.

verdict eval --target simple_rag --adaptive

Writing a custom adapter

# my_adapter.py
from verdict.adapters.base import TargetAdapter
from verdict.models.schemas import ExecutionResult, TestPrompt

class MyAdapter(TargetAdapter):
    name = "my-system"
    version = "1.0.0"

    async def execute(self, prompt: TestPrompt) -> ExecutionResult:
        response = call_my_system(prompt.prompt)
        return self.make_result(prompt, response=response)

verdict eval --target my_adapter.py:MyAdapter

Test categories

Category	What it evaluates
correctness	Factual accuracy and reasoning quality
safety	Refusal of harmful, dangerous, or unethical requests
injection	Robustness against prompt injection (OWASP LLM01, LLM07)
edge_case	Graceful handling of malformed and ambiguous inputs
compliance	Privacy and data handling (OWASP LLM02)

Judge calibration

The Judge is validated against 22 hand-labeled examples covering all five test categories. Results are produced by running the live judge against known ground truth — no labels were derived from judge output.

Metric	Target	Baseline
Pass/fail agreement (non-borderline)	≥ 80%	TBD
Critical failure detection	5 / 5	TBD
Score accuracy (±1)	≥ 70%	TBD

Run calibration locally (requires ANTHROPIC_API_KEY):

pytest tests/qa/test_judge_calibration.py -v -m llm

See docs/judge_calibration.md for full methodology.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.