How Enterprises Evaluate AI Agents: A Practical Framework for Steps, Tools, and Outcomes | Galtea Blog

Enterprise AI agent evaluation should assess not only final answers but also the observable workflow that produced them, including task understanding, planning, tool selection and arguments, error handling, permissions, handoffs, state management, efficiency, and final outcomes. Teams should begin with a clear task contract defining allowed capabilities, restrictions, policies, expected evidence, and consequences of failure, then test each requirement through versioned scenarios and full execution traces. The framework emphasizes that structurally valid tool calls or apparently successful answers can still conceal serious failures such as unauthorized data access, skipped verification, incorrect handoffs, unsupported claims, or actions that were never completed. It recommends deterministic checks for enforceable requirements, model-based or human evaluation for semantic and high-risk judgments, severity-based release thresholds, and negative testing for privacy, policy, prompt-injection, and recovery cases. Evaluation should operate across development, pre-release testing, and production monitoring, with results linked to system versions, reviewers, release decisions, and follow-up fixes so that failures can be traced to their first incorrect step and added to regression testing.

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