AI Agent Evaluation Guide: Building Observable, Evaluable, Self-Evolving Quality Systems
This comprehensive guide synthesizes 2026 industry practices from Xiaohongshu and Alipay to build production-ready AI Agent evaluation systems, covering metrics (Quality/Cost/Safety), three-tier evaluation granularities, Judge system design, OpenTelemetry-based observability, platform architecture with contract-driven test generation, dual flywheel offline/online loops, and self-evolving prompt optimization — moving evaluation from post-hoc verification to embedded engineering guardrails.
