eval-guide SKILL.md skillA

eval-guide from calibre-labs/reforge-ai-evals is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add calibre-labs/reforge-ai-evals/eval-guide@git:20261019.1d63dc1

Pins git:20261019.1d63dc1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
calibre-labs/reforge-ai-evals
Path
skills/eval-guide/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20261019.1d63dc1, committed Oct 19, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 3, 2026
Size
2,471 bytes
Repository stars
94
License
MIT

Entry point for eval work. Use when someone asks for help with evals in general, does not know where to start, asks "what should I do next", or asks for something no other skill in this plugin matches. Do NOT use when a more specific skill in this plugin already matches the request. Load that skill directly.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Eval guide

This plugin splits eval work into skills, one per step. This skill only routes. Find the row that
matches the user's situation, say which skill you are loading and why, then load it and follow
its workflow. Do not improvise your own version of a step.

| The user's situation | Skill |
|---|---|
| Has a product, PRD or prompt, and no written definition of good | `eval-rubric` (v1) |
| Has a rubric and needs test inputs, or wants to know what a dataset is missing | `uig` |
| Has traces to review but no good way to read them, or the team isn't reviewing | `trace-review-app` |
| Has read traces and written notes | `trace-codes` |
| Has trace codes and a v1 rubric | `eval-rubric` (v2) |
| Has a rubric line or trace code that a rule can check | `eval-code` |
| Has a rubric line or trace code that needs judgment | `eval-llm-judge` |
| Has an LLM judge and human labels, and wants to know if the judge can be trusted | `llm-align` |
| Has a support ticket, complaint or bad trace to turn into test data | `ticket-to-eval` |

## The order, for someone starting from nothing

1. `eval-rubric`: write v1 from the PRD.
2. `uig`: build a diverse set of inputs and run the agent on them.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add calibre-labs/reforge-ai-evals/eval-guide@sha256:6931fe4537cf0529

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.1d63dc1, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Oct 3, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every 17 days.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2471 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

calibre-labs/reforge-ai-evals · 94 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3vntu2c4za2wc6yb
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=calibre-labs/reforge-ai-evals/eval-guide
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6931fe4537cf05296307121e5247c04759fe95ec6ee8ce503e1a76144f73b743

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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