Put Your Agent Evals in CI or Stop Calling Them Evals

Short summary

Agent evaluations must run in CI as merge gates, not manual dashboards. Combine deterministic checks (valid JSON, policy compliance) with execution traces so failures are actionable; without traces, regression signals are useless. Catch silent behavior changes from model updates, prompt edits, or dependency shifts before they reach production.

• •Manual agent evals degrade under pressure; CI integration ensures gates run consistently
• •Need two components: scorer (agent-eval for pass/fail) + traces (AgentLens for root cause)
• •Score without trace is unactionable; implementation pattern provided with GitHub Actions example

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