How to write evals for your agents? Make your agent teach you.

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Summary

The author shares a practical method for learning about AI evals by creating interactive skills for agents, encouraging a hands-on, experimental approach to learning.

There was a post a few days back asking about what you should actually test when writing evals. I ended up writing a long walkthrough for writing agent evals. Half way through I realized, I wouldn't read the post, because I'd just feed it to my agent and then ask it to help me expirement. I'm a big fan of the FAFO approach to learning. So I ended up creating a "learn-evals" skill with mock exercises and lessons for the concepts. A lot, of times i'll build up a collection of links/posts on a topic and then just ask an agent walk me through the concept. This "yo astra, take these links and make me an interactive learning skill" pattern is super nice if you like to learn like that.
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