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  **Evals** (evaluation suites) are automated checks — run alongside traditional
  tests — that verify the output of AI coding agents so a small human team can
  delegate whole tasks to agents and still trust what ships.
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# eval

Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/eval-c3009c6b9094

Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

**Evals** (evaluation suites) are automated checks — run alongside traditional tests — that verify the output of AI coding agents so a small human team can delegate whole tasks to agents and still trust what ships.

## How **eval** is used in this channel's material In the captured material, **evals** (evaluation suites) appear alongside traditional **tests** as the safety layer that holds an agent-driven coding workflow together. A two-person team at Every — Kieran Klaassen and Nityesh Agarwal — runs Claude Code as a full engineering partner rather than an autocomplete, and they explicitly credit *tests and evals* with keeping that workflow reliable in production. [^11bdf6ed-1223-5cba-afde-fa9b4ce88712@284] [^320b90ca-d366-5cb1-9dbb-89b66cd5893b@256] ### Why evals matter when agents write the code When humans stop typing most of the code and instead **plan, orchestrate, and verify**, the verification layer becomes the main safeguard. The material frames tests and evals as what still holds everything together once agents build, review, and iterate on real software. [^11bdf6ed-1223-5cba-afde-fa9b4ce88712@284] [^320b90ca-d366-5cb1-9dbb-89b66cd5893b@256] - **Evals are paired with tests** as the mechanism that keeps an agent-heavy workflow trustworthy. - They exist so humans can shift from typing code to **planning, orchestrating, and verifying**. - The teams in the material run agents on **production code**, so evals are treated as production practice, not an optional extra.