Oct 20, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

5 Critical Tests Before Deploying AI Agents: Drift, Hallucination, Privilege Escalation, Latency & Cost

This comprehensive guide details a production-ready evaluation framework for AI Agents covering five essential test categories — drift, hallucination, privilege escalation, latency, and cost — with deterministic assertions, LLM-as-judge integration, CI/CD pipelines, and regression loops to prevent silent failures.

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5 Critical Tests Before Deploying AI Agents: Drift, Hallucination, Privilege Escalation, Latency & Cost

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5 Critical Tests Before Deploying AI Agents: Drift, Hallucination, Privilege Escalation, Latency & Cost