mattpocock / mattpocock/evalite

Add describe/it or other ways to better organize evals within a file

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Description

To better categorize classes of eval, I'd love to have a method that provides the same structure offered by describe/it in test frameworks.

I'm personally partial to those two method names — they're familiar and declarative, but I understand if you have an another API in mind.

At the moment, evals have a flat structure within one eval file.

I'd love to be able to have orchistrator.ts be associated with orchistrator.eval.ts, within which, I can organize across categories of eval:

describe("Subagent routing", () => {
  it("correctly routes to the knowledge search subagent", () => { ... });
  it("correctly routes to the plan creation subagent", () => { ... });
});

describe("Policy enforcement", () => {
  it("formats output as valid markdown", () => { ... });
  it("refuses to disclose prompt", () => { ... });
});

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Research direction

Start by locating how eval files such as orchistrator.eval.ts are discovered and how their individual evals are executed and reported. Compare the current flat structure with the proposed describe/it grouping and determine how nested names should appear in results. Done means evals can be organized into categories while still executing and reporting each case.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
ai, testing
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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