> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Evaluations

> Test and validate your AI agent's performance with custom evaluation suites

Create custom evaluation suites to batch test your agent's performance and ensure consistent, high-quality responses across different scenarios.

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## How evaluations work

1. **Define evaluation questions** - Build a set of test questions for each agent. You can either:
   * Manually create questions that represent common use cases
   * Select responses from existing agent conversations in the admin page to add to your evaluation set

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2. **Run batch tests** - Execute all prompts in your evaluation set against the agent to see how it responds

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3. **Review results** - Manually review the agent's responses to ensure they meet your quality standards and expectations

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## Using feedback to improve evaluations

Encourage your team to actively use the thumbs-up/thumbs-down feature when interacting with AI agents. This feedback helps admins in two key ways:

* **Identify improvement areas** - Thumbs-down responses highlight where the agent needs work
* **Build better evaluation sets** - Filter and easily add thumbs-down responses to your evaluation suite to test fixes and prevent regressions

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This systematic testing approach helps you:

* Verify agent performance before deploying changes
* Ensure consistency across common queries
