Evaluation Harness Design
Evaluation Harness Design — Structured tests for quality, safety, and regression.
Definition
Evaluation Harness Design refers to structured tests for quality, safety, and regression. Keep that definition fixed when comparing series, managers, or regimes — renaming the same tape does not create a new signal.
Why it matters
It binds model output to retrieval, tools, or evaluation so answers stay grounded instead of free-floating. When structured tests for quality, safety, and regression shifts, related hedges, limits, and narratives usually need an explicit update rather than a quiet assumption.
Case
Suppose a desk is positioned for the opposite of what evaluation harness design is saying. If structured tests for quality, safety, and regression moves against that book, the first question is not “is the story clever?” but whether size, hedges, and stop logic still match the observation.
How to read it
Measure grounding rate, latency, and failure modes under missing context — not demo chat quality alone. Prefer a short written null hypothesis for Evaluation Harness Design: what would falsify the current reading in the next window?
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