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IssueBench - How We Evaluate Engine

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Nick Bray, Arjun Nargolwala
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1,094
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English
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Summary

LangSmith Engine is designed to identify and rectify issues in other agents by analyzing agent traces, with improvements evaluated using an internal benchmark called IssueBench. IssueBench provides a controlled environment with both clean traces and those containing known issues to determine if the Engine can effectively categorize and group problems for teams to address. It spans 15 tasks across domains like SRE log analysis, software engineering, and customer support, ensuring that the Engine can recognize abstract failure modes rather than just domain-specific patterns. The benchmark uses a fixed set of issue categories to maintain consistency and tests the Engine's ability to produce actionable issue sets, scoring its performance based on correct trace labeling, issue categorization, existing issue assignment, and new issue grouping. This process helps refine the Engine’s capabilities by identifying areas for improvement and ensuring the production of useful engineering work from raw data. The ongoing development of IssueBench aims to enhance its scope and scoring methods to support the growing need for reliable agent evaluation frameworks in production settings.

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