The Agent Evaluation Readiness Checklist
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Most teams building AI agents make the same mistake: they start with the evaluation infrastructure before they understand what failure looks like. They instrument dashboards, choose metrics, wire up graders — and then discover their evals are measuring the wrong things entirely. Six weeks in, they have a green scorecard and a broken agent.
The fix is not more tooling. It is a specific sequence of steps that grounds your evaluation in reality before you automate anything. Here is that sequence.
