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Eval-driven development (TDD for LLMs)

Changing a prompt and eyeballing one output is how LLM apps quietly regress. Eval-driven development flips it: define what "good" means as a small test set, then iterate until you pass it. It is the single habit that separates apps that get more reliable over time from ones that drift.

The loop

Write the eval first. Before touching the prompt, collect 10 to 30 real input cases and define what a good output looks like (a reference answer, or a rubric for LLM-as-a-judge). Include the failure cases you already know about.
Run it against the current version. This is your baseline score. Now you have a number, not a feeling.
Make one change. New prompt, different model, changed retrieval. One at a time so you know what moved the score.
Re-run the evals. Kept the score or improved it? Keep the change. Dropped it? Revert. No debate.
Add every new bug as a case. When something breaks in production, capture that input as a new eval case before you fix it. The suite grows into a regression net.

Wire it into the workflow

Keep the eval set in the repo (versioned), next to the prompts it tests.
Run it in CI on every PR that touches prompts, models, or retrieval, with thresholds that fail the build on a regression.
Pull real cases from production traces (this is where observability feeds evals) so the suite reflects reality, not toy inputs.

See the add-llm-evals skill for framework setup (promptfoo, DeepEval, Ragas) and how to calibrate an LLM judge.

Why it works for "vibe coding"

You can move fast and change prompts freely precisely because the eval set catches regressions. Without it, every change is a gamble and confidence drops over time. With it, you get the speed of vibes plus a safety net.

Anti-patterns

Tuning a prompt against a single example (you overfit to that one case and break others).
A dataset written after the fact to match current behavior (it can never catch a regression).
Changing three things at once, then not knowing which helped.
Evals that live on someone's laptop instead of in CI (they rot immediately).

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description: Use this to build or change an LLM feature the reliable way, by writing evals first and iterating against them, instead of tweaking prompts by vibes. Trigger on "how do I improve this prompt", "my changes keep breaking other things", "how do I know if this is better", "iterate on my agent", or any prompt/model/RAG change. This is test-driven development for LLMs.
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name: eval-driven-development
description: Use this to build or change an LLM feature the reliable way, by writing evals first and iterating against them, instead of tweaking prompts by vibes. Trigger on "how do I improve this prompt", "my changes keep breaking other things", "how do I know if this is better", "iterate on my agent", or any prompt/model/RAG change. This is test-driven development for LLMs.
license: CC0-1.0
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# Eval-driven development (TDD for LLMs)

## The loop

1. **Write the eval first.** Before touching the prompt, collect 10 to 30 real input cases and define what a good output looks like (a reference answer, or a rubric for LLM-as-a-judge). Include the failure cases you already know about.
2. **Run it against the current version.** This is your baseline score. Now you have a number, not a feeling.
3. **Make one change.** New prompt, different model, changed retrieval. One at a time so you know what moved the score.
4. **Re-run the evals.** Kept the score or improved it? Keep the change. Dropped it? Revert. No debate.
5. **Add every new bug as a case.** When something breaks in production, capture that input as a new eval case before you fix it. The suite grows into a regression net.

## Wire it into the workflow

- Keep the eval set in the repo (versioned), next to the prompts it tests.
- Run it in **CI on every PR** that touches prompts, models, or retrieval, with thresholds that fail the build on a regression.
- Pull real cases from **production traces** (this is where observability feeds evals) so the suite reflects reality, not toy inputs.

See the `add-llm-evals` skill for framework setup (promptfoo, DeepEval, Ragas) and how to calibrate an LLM judge.

## Why it works for "vibe coding"

You can move fast and change prompts freely precisely *because* the eval set catches regressions. Without it, every change is a gamble and confidence drops over time. With it, you get the speed of vibes plus a safety net.

## Anti-patterns

- Tuning a prompt against a single example (you overfit to that one case and break others).
- A dataset written after the fact to match current behavior (it can never catch a regression).
- Changing three things at once, then not knowing which helped.
- Evals that live on someone's laptop instead of in CI (they rot immediately).

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Eval-driven development (TDD for LLMs)

The loop

Write the eval first. Before touching the prompt, collect 10 to 30 real input cases and define what a good output looks like (a reference answer, or a rubric for LLM-as-a-judge). Include the failure cases you already know about.
Run it against the current version. This is your baseline score. Now you have a number, not a feeling.
Make one change. New prompt, different model, changed retrieval. One at a time so you know what moved the score.
Re-run the evals. Kept the score or improved it? Keep the change. Dropped it? Revert. No debate.
Add every new bug as a case. When something breaks in production, capture that input as a new eval case before you fix it. The suite grows into a regression net.

Wire it into the workflow

Keep the eval set in the repo (versioned), next to the prompts it tests.
Run it in CI on every PR that touches prompts, models, or retrieval, with thresholds that fail the build on a regression.
Pull real cases from production traces (this is where observability feeds evals) so the suite reflects reality, not toy inputs.

See the add-llm-evals skill for framework setup (promptfoo, DeepEval, Ragas) and how to calibrate an LLM judge.

Why it works for "vibe coding"

Anti-patterns

Tuning a prompt against a single example (you overfit to that one case and break others).
A dataset written after the fact to match current behavior (it can never catch a regression).
Changing three things at once, then not knowing which helped.
Evals that live on someone's laptop instead of in CI (they rot immediately).

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# Eval-driven development (TDD for LLMs)

## The loop

## Wire it into the workflow

See the `add-llm-evals` skill for framework setup (promptfoo, DeepEval, Ragas) and how to calibrate an LLM judge.

## Why it works for "vibe coding"

## Anti-patterns

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