Implement comprehensive evaluation strategies for LLM applications using automated metrics, human feedback, and benchmarking. Use when testing LLM performance, measuring AI application quality, or establishing evaluation frameworks.
View on GitHubFebruary 1, 2026
Select agents to install to:
npx add-skill https://github.com/wshobson/agents/blob/main/plugins/llm-application-dev/skills/llm-evaluation/SKILL.md -a claude-code --skill llm-evaluationInstallation paths:
.claude/skills/llm-evaluation/# LLM Evaluation
Master comprehensive evaluation strategies for LLM applications, from automated metrics to human evaluation and A/B testing.
## When to Use This Skill
- Measuring LLM application performance systematically
- Comparing different models or prompts
- Detecting performance regressions before deployment
- Validating improvements from prompt changes
- Building confidence in production systems
- Establishing baselines and tracking progress over time
- Debugging unexpected model behavior
## Core Evaluation Types
### 1. Automated Metrics
Fast, repeatable, scalable evaluation using computed scores.
**Text Generation:**
- **BLEU**: N-gram overlap (translation)
- **ROUGE**: Recall-oriented (summarization)
- **METEOR**: Semantic similarity
- **BERTScore**: Embedding-based similarity
- **Perplexity**: Language model confidence
**Classification:**
- **Accuracy**: Percentage correct
- **Precision/Recall/F1**: Class-specific performance
- **Confusion Matrix**: Error patterns
- **AUC-ROC**: Ranking quality
**Retrieval (RAG):**
- **MRR**: Mean Reciprocal Rank
- **NDCG**: Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain
- **Precision@K**: Relevant in top K
- **Recall@K**: Coverage in top K
### 2. Human Evaluation
Manual assessment for quality aspects difficult to automate.
**Dimensions:**
- **Accuracy**: Factual correctness
- **Coherence**: Logical flow
- **Relevance**: Answers the question
- **Fluency**: Natural language quality
- **Safety**: No harmful content
- **Helpfulness**: Useful to the user
### 3. LLM-as-Judge
Use stronger LLMs to evaluate weaker model outputs.
**Approaches:**
- **Pointwise**: Score individual responses
- **Pairwise**: Compare two responses
- **Reference-based**: Compare to gold standard
- **Reference-free**: Judge without ground truth
## Quick Start
```python
from dataclasses import dataclass
from typing import Callable
import numpy as np
@dataclass
class Metric:
name: str
fn: Callable
@staticmethod
def accuracy()