evaluating-llms-harness SKILL.md skillA

evaluating-llms-harness from orchestra-research/ai-research-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add orchestra-research/ai-research-skills/evaluating-llms-harness@v1.0.0

Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
orchestra-research/ai-research-skills
Path
11-evaluation/lm-evaluation-harness/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
v1.0.0, committed Nov 20, 2025
First version recorded
Nov 19, 2025
Size
11,895 bytes
Repository stars
13,718
License
MIT

Evaluates LLMs across 60+ academic benchmarks (MMLU, HumanEval, GSM8K, TruthfulQA, HellaSwag). Use when benchmarking model quality, comparing models, reporting academic results, or tracking training progress. Industry standard used by EleutherAI, HuggingFace, and major labs. Supports HuggingFace, vLLM, APIs.

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

# lm-evaluation-harness - LLM Benchmarking

## Quick start

lm-evaluation-harness evaluates LLMs across 60+ academic benchmarks using standardized prompts and metrics.

**Installation**:
```bash
pip install lm-eval
```

**Evaluate any HuggingFace model**:
```bash
lm_eval --model hf \
  --model_args pretrained=meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf \
  --tasks mmlu,gsm8k,hellaswag \
  --device cuda:0 \
  --batch_size 8
```

**View available tasks**:
```bash
lm_eval --tasks list
```

## Common workflows

### Workflow 1: Standard benchmark evaluation

Evaluate model on core benchmarks (MMLU, GSM8K, HumanEval).

Copy this checklist:

```
Benchmark Evaluation:
- [ ] Step 1: Choose benchmark suite
- [ ] Step 2: Configure model
- [ ] Step 3: Run evaluation
- [ ] Step 4: Analyze results
```

**Step 1: Choose benchmark suite**

**Core reasoning benchmarks**:
- **MMLU** (Massive Multitask Language Understanding) - 57 subjects, multiple choice
- **GSM8K** - Grade school math word problems
- **HellaSwag** - Common sense reasoning
- **TruthfulQA** - Truthfulness and factuality
- **ARC** (AI2 Reasoning Challenge) - Science questions

**Code benchmarks**:
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add orchestra-research/ai-research-skills/evaluating-llms-harness@sha256:891b77bc09118393

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_62aql4g5r2a5iysx.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_62aql4g5r2a5iysx)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Nov 19, 2025 and Nov 20, 2025, more than one a day.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.0.0 latest2025-11-20 0a9ded4 11,895 BA view · diff
v1.0.02025-11-20 72c8b2c 11,895 BA view · diff
v1.0.02025-11-20 51fc3a3 11,894 BA view · diff
v1.0.02025-11-20 81c38fe 11,893 BA view · diff
v1.0.02025-11-19 bd4461f 11,892 BA view

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 (11895 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

orchestra-research/ai-research-skills · 13,718 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-11 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_62aql4g5r2a5iysx
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=orchestra-research/ai-research-skills/evaluating-llms-harness
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/891b77bc09118393f9bd1235404ee3f0cf412f56e57dc4b454e2fbd8fd507bc3

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.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

More from orchestra-research/ai-research-skills

autoresearch SKILL.md skill
orchestra-research/ai-research-skills · 0-autoresearch-skill/SKILL.md · Orchestrates end-to-end autonomous AI research projects using a two-loop architecture. The inner loop runs rapid…
v1.0.0 · audit A · 13,718 stars
implementing-llms-litgpt SKILL.md skill
orchestra-research/ai-research-skills · 01-model-architecture/litgpt/SKILL.md · Implements and trains LLMs using Lightning AI's LitGPT with 20+ pretrained architectures (Llama, Gemma, Phi, Qwen…
v1.0.0 · audit A · 13,718 stars
mamba-architecture SKILL.md skill
orchestra-research/ai-research-skills · 01-model-architecture/mamba/SKILL.md · State-space model with O(n) complexity vs Transformers' O(n²). 5× faster inference, million-token sequences, no KV…
v1.0.0 · audit A · 13,718 stars
nanogpt SKILL.md skill
orchestra-research/ai-research-skills · 01-model-architecture/nanogpt/SKILL.md · Educational GPT implementation in ~300 lines. Reproduces GPT-2 (124M) on OpenWebText. Clean, hackable code for learning…
v1.0.0 · audit A · 13,718 stars
rwkv-architecture SKILL.md skill
orchestra-research/ai-research-skills · 01-model-architecture/rwkv/SKILL.md · RNN+Transformer hybrid with O(n) inference. Linear time, infinite context, no KV cache. Train like GPT (parallel)…
v1.0.0 · audit A · 13,718 stars
distributed-llm-pretraining-torchtitan SKILL.md skill
orchestra-research/ai-research-skills · 01-model-architecture/torchtitan/SKILL.md · Provides PyTorch-native distributed LLM pretraining using torchtitan with 4D parallelism (FSDP2, TP, PP, CP). Use when…
v1.0.0 · audit A · 13,718 stars
huggingface-tokenizers SKILL.md skill
orchestra-research/ai-research-skills · 02-tokenization/huggingface-tokenizers/SKILL.md · Fast tokenizers optimized for research and production. Rust-based implementation tokenizes 1GB in <20 seconds. Supports…
v1.0.0 · audit A · 13,718 stars
sentencepiece SKILL.md skill
orchestra-research/ai-research-skills · 02-tokenization/sentencepiece/SKILL.md · Language-independent tokenizer treating text as raw Unicode. Supports BPE and Unigram algorithms. Fast (50k…
v1.0.0 · audit A · 13,718 stars
axolotl SKILL.md skill
orchestra-research/ai-research-skills · 03-fine-tuning/axolotl/SKILL.md · Expert guidance for fine-tuning LLMs with Axolotl - YAML configs, 100+ models, LoRA/QLoRA, DPO/KTO/ORPO/GRPO…
v1.0.0 · audit A · 13,718 stars
llama-factory SKILL.md skill
orchestra-research/ai-research-skills · 03-fine-tuning/llama-factory/SKILL.md · Expert guidance for fine-tuning LLMs with LLaMA-Factory - WebUI no-code, 100+ models, 2/3/4/5/6/8-bit QLoRA, multimodal…
v1.0.0 · audit A · 13,718 stars
peft-fine-tuning SKILL.md skill
orchestra-research/ai-research-skills · 03-fine-tuning/peft/SKILL.md · Parameter-efficient fine-tuning for LLMs using LoRA, QLoRA, and 25+ methods. Use when fine-tuning large models (7B-70B)…
v1.0.0 · audit A · 13,718 stars
unsloth SKILL.md skill
orchestra-research/ai-research-skills · 03-fine-tuning/unsloth/SKILL.md · Expert guidance for fast fine-tuning with Unsloth - 2-5x faster training, 50-80% less memory, LoRA/QLoRA optimization
v1.0.0 · audit A · 13,718 stars

Every file in orchestra-research/ai-research-skills

Other files named evaluating-llms-harness

evaluating-llms-harness SKILL.md skill
foryourhealth111-pixel/vibe-skills · bundled/skills/evaluating-llms-harness/SKILL.md · Evaluates LLMs across 60+ academic benchmarks (MMLU, HumanEval, GSM8K, TruthfulQA, HellaSwag). Use when benchmarking…
v1.0.0 · audit A · 3,758 stars
evaluating-llms-harness SKILL.md skill
yichen-zju/claude-for-research · claude/skills/lm-evaluation-harness/SKILL.md · Evaluates LLMs across 60+ academic benchmarks (MMLU, HumanEval, GSM8K, TruthfulQA, HellaSwag). Use when benchmarking…
v1.0.0 · audit A · 10 stars

Browse by kind, by grade A, or by owner.