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Evaluator agent

An agent that administers an assessment: it prepares the environment, sends tasks to participant agents, collects results, and reports the metrics it defines. It bundles harness, specification, and mechanism; Berkeley's lecture calls it a green agent.

Also called: green agent

Defined in

Handbook · LifecycleHarness architecture and reproducibilityThe harness is part of the instrument. Isolate trials, pin environments, version judges, and log enough to turn a surprise into a result.
Eval harness
The machinery that administers an evaluation and records trials. It is part of the instrument, distinct from the agent harness, which is part of the system under test.

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