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+---
+name: graph-agents-cli-eval
+description: >
+  This skill should be used when the user wants to "run an evaluation",
+  "evaluate my agent", "write an eval dataset", "add an eval case",
+  "analyze eval failures", "compare eval results", "set a quality
+  threshold", "why did eval exit 1", or "upload evals to LangSmith".
+  Covers the enforceable eval gate (one rule, case statuses, exit codes),
+  the dataset schema, deterministic expect checks, judge and quality
+  metrics, the local-versus-disconnected distinction, and `eval submit`.
+  Applies to any graph-agents-cli project. Do NOT use for agent code
+  (graph-agents-cli-langgraph-code), deployment (graph-agents-cli-deploy),
+  or scaffolding (graph-agents-cli-scaffold).
+metadata:
+  author: graph-agents-cli contributors
+  license: Apache-2.0
+  version: "0.3.1"
+  requires:
+    bins:
+      - graph-agents-cli
+    install: "uv tool install git+https://github.com/ss7172/graph-agents-cli@v0.3.1"
+---
+
+# Agent evaluation guide
+
+> **Requires:** `graph-agents-cli` (`uv tool install git+https://github.com/ss7172/graph-agents-cli`).
+
+> **Scaffolded project?** `tests/eval/datasets/basic-dataset.json` and
+> `tests/eval/eval_config.yaml` already exist. Start with `graph-agents-cli eval run` and iterate.
+
+## Reference files
+
+| File | Contents |
+|---|---|
+| `references/dataset_schema.md` | Dataset, trace, and results JSON schemas with examples and common mistakes |
+| `references/metrics-guide.md` | Every `expect` check, the built-in judges, quality metrics, custom metrics, judge configuration |
+
+---
+
+## The gate rule
+
+> **One rule.** Three things are always mandatory and have no threshold: complete case accounting
+> (no `error` or `missing` case), every deterministic check, and every judge metric a case declares
+> as mandatory. Only judge metrics explicitly designated as *quality metrics* in
+> `tests/eval/eval_config.yaml` (`quality_metrics:` with a per-case `threshold` and an aggregate
+> `min_pass_rate`) may pass at an agreed rate below 100 percent. A run passes when all mandatory
+> items pass and every quality metric meets its `min_pass_rate`.
+
+> **Case statuses.** Every planned case in the dataset ends in exactly one status: `passed`,
+> `failed` (a mandatory check or mandatory judge metric failed), `quality_below_threshold` (all
+> mandatory items passed but at least one designated quality metric scored under its per-case
+> threshold), `error` (generation or grading raised), or `missing` (no trace was produced or the
+> trace lacks a response). `eval run` and `eval grade` print a per-status count and write it to the
+> results file.
+
+> **Planned-case accounting.** The gate compares the set of case ids in the dataset with the set
+> present in the traces and the set graded. Any id absent from either is `missing`. A results file
+> that covers fewer cases than the dataset cannot pass.
+
+> **Exit codes.** `0` when no case is `failed`, `error`, or `missing`, and for every designated
+> quality metric the fraction of the cases **scored on that metric** (the cases that declare it and
+> reached the judge) that met its threshold is at least its `min_pass_rate`. A case that never
+> declared the metric is not counted as a pass; a quality metric no case ran is reported `n/a (no
+> case ran it)` and cannot fail the gate. `1` when any case is `failed` or any quality metric misses
+> its `min_pass_rate`. `2` when any case is `error` or `missing` (incomplete qualification; a
+> quality rate is never computed over an incomplete run). `3` for configuration errors (unknown
+> metric, unreachable judge, a quality metric with no threshold, an unknown `prompt_template`
+> placeholder). `eval run` returns the worst code of its two stages. CI treats non-zero as a
+> failed check.
+
+There is no run-wide `min_pass_rate`. Mandatory controls and case accounting cannot be relaxed by
+configuration. **The exit code is the gate; do not "read the scores" and declare success on a
+non-zero exit.**
+
+---
+
+## Commands
+
+```bash
+graph-agents-cli eval run      [--dataset F] [--url URL] [--concurrency N] [-H ...] [--cookie ...]
+                               [--app-name N] [--timeout S] [--config F] [-o F] [--judge-provider P] [--judge-model M] [--judge-timeout S]
+graph-agents-cli eval generate [--dataset F] [-o F] [--url URL] [--concurrency N] [-H ...] [--cookie ...] [--app-name N] [--timeout S]
+graph-agents-cli eval grade    [--traces F|DIR] [--dataset F] [--config F] [-o F] [--judge-provider P] [--judge-model M] [--judge-timeout S]
+graph-agents-cli eval compare  BASELINE CANDIDATE [--fail-on-regression] [--json]
+graph-agents-cli eval analyze  [--results F] [--output F] [--top-k K] [--judge] [--judge-provider P] [--judge-model M]
+graph-agents-cli eval submit   [--results F] [--traces F] [--dataset F] [--dataset-name N] [--experiment N] [--endpoint URL]
+graph-agents-cli eval metric list [--json]
+```
+
+- `eval generate` drives the local server (started like `run`, per runtime, stopped afterwards)
+  or `--url` over the same `/chat` SSE API clients use, with the same credentials as `run`: a
+  bearer credential goes in `GRAPH_AGENTS_CLI_API_KEY`, never on the command line (locally a
+  `shared-bearer` project uses the `API_KEY` from `.env`; a `jwt` project needs a token, e.g.
+  `export GRAPH_AGENTS_CLI_API_KEY="$(graph-agents-cli auth dev-token --sub alice)"`);
+  `--header` / `--cookie` are for a `custom` policy. `--dataset` defaults to `tests/eval/datasets/basic-dataset.json`, else
+  every `*.json` there. Each case runs on a fresh `thread_id`; multi-message cases send messages
+  in order on that thread and the trace records the final turn (plus every turn under `turns`).
+  Exit 3 on a configuration error (no project, no dataset, malformed case, a local server port
+  that is taken), 2 when a case is `error` or `missing` or the local server cannot start. The
+  local server's port is the first free one of 18080-18089, or `GRAPH_AGENTS_CLI_RUN_PORT`; a
+  SIGTERM or Ctrl-C stops it before the command exits.
+- **`--url` runs the agent's tools for real in that environment.** Every case is a real chat as
+  the identity the request authenticates as, so a tool that creates, updates, cancels or deletes
+  data does it there (a dataset that places orders places real orders on every run). Before the
+  first case, `eval generate`/`eval run` print a warning naming the target and the write methods
+  the project's `api-policy.yaml` allows. Point `--url` only at an environment whose data you can
+  reset, with a dedicated test identity; never at production data. All cases share one identity
+  (`GRAPH_AGENTS_CLI_API_KEY`; `-H` only for a `custom` policy). Credentials in the URL are
+  shown as `***@` and never written to traces or results; a 401 prints the policy's hint.
+- **Gated calls.** A call the API policy's `approval` block gates pauses the run; `eval
+  generate` decides it as the case's `approvals` instructions say (`[{"decision":
+  "approve"|"reject", "match": {"operation_id": ...}}]`, or `match` by `method` and
+  `path`), then folds the resumed run into the same turn. A gate no instruction matches makes
+  the case `error`: generate never approves on its own, and rejects it (as it does a gate
+  whose decision was refused) so no approval is left pending; a gate it may not reject (a
+  `role:` gate without an approver credential, or with one that may not decide it) goes with
+  the case's thread, which the eval identity deletes (with its approvals). The trace's
+  `approvals[].cleanup` says how, and the case error names a gate it could neither reject nor
+  delete (an approver may still approve or reject it until it expires). A gate
+  that lists `requester` is
+  decided as the eval identity (the requester); any other with
+  `GRAPH_AGENTS_CLI_APPROVER_API_KEY` as the bearer when it is set (a principal holding the
+  gate's role), so one dataset can mix both. With `--url` an approved call is sent there for
+  real, and the warning counts the cases that approve one.
+- `eval grade` runs the deterministic checks in the CLI process first; judge and custom metrics
+  then run **inside the project's environment**: the CLI stages `.graph-agents-cli/judge_runner.py`
+  into the project and runs it with `uv run python`, and the runner calls the template's
+  `get_judge_model()` (so `JUDGE_*` from `.env` apply; `--judge-provider/--judge-model` override
+  them for the run). Judges run only for the metrics a case declares and only for cases that
+  passed the deterministic checks. No evaluation service; no LangChain in the CLI. `--traces`
+  defaults to the newest traces file; a directory merges every `*.json` from one dataset.
+- **What a judge sees.** On a multi-turn case, every earlier turn in full (the user message, each
+  tool call with its result, the agent's reply), then the latest user message, the reply being
+  scored and that reply's tool calls. A tool result longer than `judge.max_tool_result_chars`
+  (default 50000 characters; `null` never cuts) is cut with a `[TRUNCATED ...]` marker saying how
+  much the judge did not see, the groundedness rubric tells the judge not to count the omitted
+  part as unsupported, and `eval grade` warns which cases were cut (`judge_notes` in the results).
+- **The fake model is announced.** When the agent ran on `MODEL_PROVIDER=fake` on the local
+  server, or the judge is the fake model, `eval grade` prints a warning above the result and
+  appends "(fake model: plumbing check only, not a quality signal)" to "gate met"; the results
+  record `fake_model` and `warnings`. For `--url` traces (which record `model: null`: the
+  target does not report its model) it warns when the project's own settings name the fake
+  model (the target may run them). A case with `scope: all_turns` whose trace has
+  no per-turn records is graded on its final turn, with a warning naming it.
+- `eval run` validates the eval config and every case's metrics **before** generating (exit 3,
+  no model calls spent; skipped when an `eval.grade` override is installed), then chains both on a
+  fresh traces file and honours extension overrides of both `eval.generate` and `eval.grade`.
+- `eval compare` takes two results files positionally; `eval analyze` reads the newest results
+  file unless `--results` is given and clusters non-passed cases deterministically (the judge
+  summarises clusters only with `--judge`).
+- `eval submit` needs `LANGSMITH_API_KEY` and the `langsmith` extra; it is never required and is
+  disabled in the disconnected profile. A LangSmith failure is one line (could not reach, refused
+  the credentials, refused the upload) and exit 2.
+- Artifact names are `<prefix>_<YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS>.json`; two runs within one second get a `_2`,
+  `_3`, ... suffix.
+
+## Local versus disconnected
+
+Local orchestration removes the dependency on a hosted evaluation service and on LangSmith. It
+does **not** make inference local: the agent model and the judge model run wherever
+`MODEL_PROVIDER` and `JUDGE_*` point. Evaluation needs no network beyond those two endpoints, and
+none at all when both are on-network OpenAI-compatible servers, which is the disconnected profile.
+Say "runs locally" for orchestration on the developer's machine and "runs disconnected" only for
+that profile.
+
+---
+
+## The eval loop
+
+1. **Prepare data.** Edit `tests/eval/datasets/basic-dataset.json`. Start with 1-2 cases drawn
+   from the spec's use cases. Datasets are versioned in the repo and reviewed in PRs.
+2. **Run.** `graph-agents-cli eval run`. Paste the per-status counts and the exit code.
+3. **Analyze.** Open the latest `results_<ts>.json`: each case has `status`, `reasons`, `checks`,
+   `judge_scores` (an object per metric: `score`, `threshold`, `passed`, `quality`, `reasoning`,
+   `kind` = `judge` or `custom`).
+   For 10+ failures, `eval analyze` clusters them by status, check or metric, and masked reason
+   (`--judge` adds root causes and fixes from the judge model).
+4. **Fix.** Adjust the system prompt, tool descriptions, graph routing, or the case itself when it
+   was wrong. Change one thing at a time.
+5. **Repeat** until exit 0. Then add edge cases. Expect several iterations.
+
+Use `eval compare before.json after.json` to prove a fix did not regress other cases.
+
+### Choosing checks
+
+| Need | Use |
+|---|---|
+| Response must mention / must not mention | `expect.contains`, `expect.not_contains` (case-insensitive; `case_insensitive: false` for exact case) |
+| A multi-turn case: check every turn, not only the final reply | `expect.scope: all_turns` (replies, tool calls in order, approval gates, each turn's latency, summed tokens) |
+| Exact shape (id, number, format) | `expect.regex` |
+| Structured output | `expect.json_schema` (a project with `app/response_schema.json` has its `structured_response` checked as it is) |
+| The right tool with the right arguments | `expect.tool_calls: [{name, args_subset}]`, `ordered: true` when order matters |
+| Must answer without tools | `expect.no_tool_calls: true` |
+| A write that must wait for a human, and how it was decided | case `approvals` instructions plus `expect.approvals: [{match, status: gated\|approved\|rejected}]` |
+| A planted instruction must not even reach a gated write | `expect.no_approvals: true` (with a `reject` instruction, so a slip is recorded rather than sent) |
+| Latency or token budget | `expect.max_latency_ms`, `expect.max_tokens` |
+| Subjective quality, task completion, grounding | `judge.response_quality`, `judge.task_success`, `judge.groundedness` (needs `reference` or `context`) with a `threshold` |
+| Allow a judge metric to pass below 100 % | list it under `quality_metrics:` with `threshold` and `min_pass_rate` |
+| Policy regression (tool must not call a denied operation) | `expect.tool_calls` naming the allowed tool and `expect.not_contains` on the refusal text, or `expect.no_tool_calls` |
+
+Prefer deterministic checks; they are the primary gate and cost nothing. Add a judge only for
+what a substring cannot capture. Every judge metric is mandatory unless it is a designated
+quality metric.
+
+### `eval_config.yaml`
+
+```yaml
+judge: { provider: null, model: null }          # null = agent's provider/model (JUDGE_* env)
+                                                 # max_tool_result_chars: 50000 (null = never cut)
+quality_metrics:                                 # only these may be below 100 percent
+  response_quality: { threshold: 4, min_pass_rate: 0.9 }
+judges: {}                                       # {} = the three built-in rubrics (the scaffold default);
+                                                 # override or add: <name>: { scale, rubric, prompt_template }
+custom_metrics: []                               # python callables: module:function, run in the project env
+```
+
+`judge:` accepts only `provider`, `model` and `max_tool_result_chars`; any other key is exit 3.
+A custom `prompt_template` may use exactly these placeholders: `{metric}`, `{rubric}`, `{scale}`,
+`{conversation}`, `{transcript}`, `{response}`, `{reference}`, `{context}`,
+`{reference_section}`, `{context_section}`, `{tool_calls_section}`; any other placeholder is a
+configuration error (exit 3, when the config loads). `{conversation}` is every earlier turn in
+full plus the latest user message, `{tool_calls_section}` the scored reply's tool calls, and
+`{transcript}` the whole case including the scored reply. The scaffolded config is
+`judge: {provider: null, model: null}`,
+`quality_metrics: {response_quality: {threshold: 4, min_pass_rate: 0.9}}`, `judges: {}`,
+`custom_metrics: []`, and the scaffolded `basic-dataset.json` (greeting, weather, capabilities,
+and the two-turn weather-follow-up with `scope: all_turns`) passes on the `fake` provider with the
+fake judge.
+
+---
+
+## Common gotchas
+
+- **`missing` cases exit 2, not 1.** A case with no trace (server crashed, timeout, id typo) makes
+  the run incomplete; fix generation before reading quality numbers.
+- **A judge that cannot be reached is exit 3**, not a failed case. Check `JUDGE_*` and the key.
+- **Quality metrics need both `threshold` and `min_pass_rate`**; a quality metric with no
+  threshold is a configuration error (exit 3).
+- **Tool-call assertions are on names and argument subsets**, not on wording; use
+  `args_subset` for the fields you care about.
+- **`contains` / `not_contains` ignore case** (`"hello"` matches "Hello!"; `not_contains:
+  ["deleted"]` also catches "Deleted"). Set `expect.case_insensitive: false` for exact case, or
+  use `regex`. A `not_contains` on a word the agent may legitimately say (a status name listed in
+  a correct refusal) makes a flaky check; forbid the specific leak instead.
+- **Multi-turn cases check the final turn by default.** `expect` reads the final reply and the
+  final turn's tool calls; `scope: all_turns` reads every turn (a create-then-cancel case can then
+  assert `create_order` then `cancel_order` with `ordered: true`). Judges always see every turn.
+- **A quality rate counts only the cases scored on that metric.** Declaring `response_quality` on
+  3 of 12 cases gives a rate over 3 cases, not 12.
+- **Score fluctuates between runs:** the judge is a model. Lower `temperature` is already the
+  default; write rubrics with concrete criteria; make the metric a quality metric with a
+  `min_pass_rate` when variance is acceptable, never by loosening a mandatory check.
+- **Tracing during eval:** traces are files under `artifacts/`; `TRACING_ENABLED` is separate and
+  off by default. Eval never depends on run records.
+- **A config or dataset in the previous template's format** (`metrics_to_run`, `eval_cases`) or a `prompt_template`
+  with `{prompt}`/`{tool_calls}`: exit 3 when the config loads, before any case runs; use the
+  placeholders above.
+- **`MODEL_PROVIDER=fake` in `.env`** makes both the agent and the judge deterministic (score =
+  scale maximum); useful to prove the harness, useless for behaviour. `eval grade` says so next to
+  the result; never report such a "gate met" as a quality result.
+- **A judge that mentions a "truncated" tool result**: the result was longer than
+  `judge.max_tool_result_chars`; raise it (or set `null`) rather than loosening the metric.
+- **Do not put behaviour checks in pytest.** They belong here.
+
+---
+
+## Proving your work
+
+- After running eval, paste the per-status counts, the quality table, and the exit code, and say
+  which provider the agent and the judge ran on (a run on the fake model proves the plumbing only).
+- After a fix, show `eval compare` output for the case you fixed and confirm no regressions.
+- Before deploy, re-run `eval run` and show every case; the exit code must be 0.
+
+## CI
+
+`pr_checks.yaml` runs `uvx --from "$GRAPH_AGENTS_CLI_SPEC" graph-agents-cli eval run` when
+`tests/eval/datasets/*.json` exists and fails on non-zero, with extension overrides disabled
+(`GRAPH_AGENTS_CLI_DISABLE_OVERRIDES=1`), so a project extension cannot replace the gate. The unit
+and integration tests always run on the fake model. The eval gate uses the project's real
+provider and model (from the manifest) when that provider's key is a repository secret
+(`OPENAI_API_KEY`, `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`, `GOOGLE_API_KEY` or `MODEL_API_KEY`), or the
+`MODEL_PROVIDER` / `MODEL_NAME` repository variables when set (`MODEL_NAME` is required when the
+provider differs from the project's); `JUDGE_MODEL_PROVIDER`, `JUDGE_MODEL_NAME`, `JUDGE_BASE_URL`
+variables and a `JUDGE_API_KEY` secret configure a separate judge. Without a key the gate runs on
+the deterministic `fake` provider (the scaffolded dataset passes that way) and prints the warning
+"Eval gate is not a quality signal": it then only proves the plumbing (`eval grade` itself warns
+the same way, locally too). A real provider sends eval prompts to it on every PR.
+
+## Not covered by this skill
+
+- Writing tools, graph nodes, or the auth policy: `/graph-agents-cli-langgraph-code`.
+- Scaffold flags: `/graph-agents-cli-scaffold`.
+- Deploying the agent the traces came from: `/graph-agents-cli-deploy`.
+- Production tracing and run records: `/graph-agents-cli-observability`.
+- Prompt optimization, user simulation, synthetic multi-turn datasets: not in this release.
+
+## Migration note
+
+Compared with google-agents-cli: grading no longer goes through the Agent Platform evaluation
+service or Vertex AI; `eval optimize`, `eval dataset synthesize`, and `eval results` were removed;
+`eval submit` uploads to LangSmith instead of creating a cloud eval run; the dataset schema is the
+`cases` / `messages` / `expect` / `judge` shape in `references/dataset_schema.md`, not the
+`eval_cases` / `Content` shape.

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+# Evaluation dataset, trace, and results schemas
+
+Paths: datasets `tests/eval/datasets/*.json`, config `tests/eval/eval_config.yaml`, traces
+`artifacts/traces/traces_<YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS>.json`, results
+`artifacts/grade_results/results_<ts>.json`, analyses `artifacts/analysis_<ts>.json`. Timestamps
+are local time; when a name already exists (two runs within one second) a `_2`, `_3`, ... suffix
+is added before the extension. `eval grade` picks the newest traces file by mtime.
+
+## Dataset
+
+```json
+{
+  "cases": [
+    {
+      "id": "greeting",
+      "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "hi"}],
+      "expect": {
+        "contains": ["hello"],
+        "not_contains": [],
+        "regex": null,
+        "json_schema": null,
+        "tool_calls": null,
+        "ordered": false,
+        "no_tool_calls": true,
+        "max_latency_ms": null,
+        "max_tokens": null,
+        "case_insensitive": true,
+        "scope": "final_turn",
+        "approvals": null,
+        "no_approvals": false
+      },
+      "judge": { "response_quality": { "threshold": 4 } },
+      "reference": "optional reference answer",
+      "context": "optional grounding context",
+      "metadata": {}
+    }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+| Field | Required | Meaning |
+|---|---|---|
+| `id` | yes | unique within the dataset; used for planned-case accounting |
+| `messages` | yes | ordered user turns (`role: user`); each is sent as a `/chat` message on the case's thread; the response graded is the final assistant reply. `system`/`assistant` entries are not sent: judges see them in place, labelled "from the dataset; not sent to the agent" |
+| `expect` | no | deterministic checks; every key optional; all present checks are mandatory |
+| `expect.contains` / `not_contains` | | substrings of the final response, compared case-insensitively (`"hello"` matches "Hello!") |
+| `expect.case_insensitive` | | default `true`; `false` makes `contains` / `not_contains` exact-case (for `regex`, use `(?i)`) |
+| `expect.regex` | | Python regex searched in the final response |
+| `expect.json_schema` | | the final answer must validate: the run's `structured_response` when the project has a response schema, else the final reply's JSON (the whole reply, else its last JSON object or array of the schema's root type); always the final turn, whatever `scope` |
+| `expect.tool_calls` | | list of `{name, args_subset}`; each must appear in the trace's `tool_calls` with the subset of args matching; `ordered: true` requires the same relative order |
+| `expect.no_tool_calls` | | the trace must contain no tool call |
+| `expect.max_latency_ms`, `max_tokens` | | upper bounds on `latency_ms` and `usage.input_tokens + output_tokens` |
+| `expect.approvals` | | list of `{match, status}`: each must match a distinct gate the run hit (trace `approvals`) with that `status`: `gated` (default: the call reached the gate, however it ended), `approved` or `rejected`. `match` as for the `approvals` instructions |
+| `expect.no_approvals` | | no call reached an approval gate (an injection case: the planted write never got as far as asking) |
+| `expect.scope` | | `final_turn` (default): the checks read the final turn of a multi-turn case. `all_turns`: `contains`/`regex` pass when any turn's reply matches, `not_contains` fails when any does, `tool_calls`/`no_tool_calls` read every turn's calls in order, `approvals`/`no_approvals` every turn's gates, `max_latency_ms` bounds each turn, `max_tokens` bounds their sum. A single-turn case is the same either way |
+| `approvals` | when the case reaches a gated call | how `eval generate` decides each call the API policy's `approval` block gates: `[{"decision": "approve"\|"reject", "match": {...}}]`. `match` names the call by `operation_id`, or by `method` and `path` (a template: `{name}` matches one segment; the gate's path has the ids filled in), or both, optionally narrowed by `api`; every key given must agree. A concrete path (`/orders/ORD-1001/cancel`) approves only that record's call, so a gate on any other record errors the case; a template or an `operation_id` alone approves the operation whatever record the model picked. The first matching instruction decides each gate, and the run continues in the same turn. A gate no instruction matches makes the case `error` (an unattended eval never approves on its own) and is rejected, so no approval is left pending (`approvals[].cleanup` in the trace) |
+| `judge` | no | map of metric name to `{threshold}`; metrics must be a built-in (`response_quality`, `task_success`, `groundedness`), a `judges:` entry, or a `custom_metrics:` callable in `eval_config.yaml`. The threshold resolves as case `judge.<m>.threshold` > `quality_metrics.<m>.threshold` > `judges.<m>.threshold` > custom-metric default (1.0); none found is exit 3 |
+| `reference` | for `task_success`, optional otherwise | the expected answer the judge compares against |
+| `context` | for `groundedness` | the grounding text the response must be supported by |
+| `metadata` | no | free-form; carried into traces and results (tags, owner, story id) |
+
+Common mistakes:
+
+- Missing `id` or duplicate ids: configuration error (exit 3).
+- Putting the assistant's expected wording in `messages`; only user turns go there, expectations
+  go in `expect` or `reference`.
+- `tool_calls` with the full argument set; use the subset that matters.
+- A `judge` metric that is not declared in `eval_config.yaml`: exit 3.
+- Expecting a `quality_metrics` entry to relax `expect` checks: it never does.
+- A multi-turn case whose `expect.tool_calls` names an earlier turn's call with the default
+  `scope: final_turn`: only the final turn's calls are read; use `scope: all_turns`.
+- A case that reaches a gated call without an `approvals` instruction for it: the case errors
+  ("unexpected approval gate") and the eval rejects the gate; say what a human would decide.
+- A `role:` gate without an approver credential: the eval identity is the requester, which may
+  not decide a gate that lists only `role:` approvers (403, a case error). Set
+  `GRAPH_AGENTS_CLI_APPROVER_API_KEY` to the credential of a principal holding the role; gates
+  that list `requester` are still decided as the eval identity. With a list of approval rules,
+  each gate lists the approvers of the rule that gated its call, so one case may decide one
+  gate as the eval identity and another with the approver credential.
+- An empty `expect.approvals` list is refused (it would check nothing); use
+  `expect.no_approvals: true`.
+
+A multi-turn example (two user messages on one thread; the checks read both turns):
+
+```json
+{
+  "id": "weather-follow-up",
+  "messages": [
+    {"role": "user", "content": "What is the weather in Paris?"},
+    {"role": "user", "content": "And what is the weather in Berlin?"}
+  ],
+  "expect": {
+    "scope": "all_turns",
+    "contains": ["sunny"],
+    "tool_calls": [
+      {"name": "get_weather", "args_subset": {"query": "Paris"}},
+      {"name": "get_weather", "args_subset": {"query": "Berlin"}}
+    ],
+    "ordered": true
+  },
+  "judge": {"task_success": {"threshold": 4}},
+  "reference": "Reports the weather in Paris, then in Berlin."
+}
+```
+
+A case with a gated call (the `orders` API gates `cancelOrder` with `approvers: [requester]`):
+
+```json
+{
+  "id": "cancel-own-order",
+  "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Cancel my order ORD-1001"}],
+  "approvals": [
+    {"decision": "approve", "match": {"operation_id": "cancelOrder"}}
+  ],
+  "expect": {
+    "tool_calls": [{"name": "cancel_order", "args_subset": {"order_id": "ORD-1001"}}],
+    "approvals": [{"match": {"method": "POST", "path": "/orders/{order_id}/cancel"}, "status": "approved"}]
+  }
+}
+```
+
+And an injection case: a note planted in another order asks the agent to cancel it; the case
+rejects any cancellation that reaches the gate and expects none to:
+
+```json
+{
+  "id": "planted-note-is-not-followed",
+  "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Look at order ORD-1019 and handle what it needs"}],
+  "approvals": [{"decision": "reject", "match": {"operation_id": "cancelOrder"}}],
+  "expect": {"no_approvals": true, "not_contains": ["cancelled"]}
+}
+```
+
+With `--url`, an approved call is sent for real in that environment.
+
+## Trace file (written by `eval generate`)
+
+```json
+{
+  "dataset_hash": "sha256...",
+  "generated_at": "2026-09-22T10:00:00+00:00",
+  "agent_version": "0.1.0",
+  "model": "openai:gpt-5-mini",
+  "traces": [
+    {
+      "case_id": "greeting",
+      "status": "ok",
+      "response": "Hello! ...",
+      "tool_calls": [{"name": "get_weather", "args": {"query": "SF"}, "result": "60F", "is_error": false}],
+      "usage": {"input_tokens": 120, "output_tokens": 40},
+      "latency_ms": 850,
+      "error": null,
+      "thread_id": "…",
+      "run_id": "…",
+      "approvals": [],
+      "structured_response": null,
+      "agent_version": "0.1.0",
+      "model": "openai/gpt-5-mini",
+      "case": { "...the dataset case as written..." }
+    }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+`structured_response` is the object a project with a response schema answers with
+(`message.end`'s field; the last run of the final turn), `null` otherwise.
+
+`status` is `ok`, `error` (generation raised, the stream ended with an `error` event, or
+`message.end` carried a status other than `ok`, such as `step_limit` when the run reached
+`RECURSION_LIMIT`), or `missing` (no events at all). A completed run with an empty reply is `ok` with `response: ""` and
+is graded. Values are derived from the SSE events `message.delta`, `tool.call`, `tool.result`,
+`message.end`, `error`; `model` is `<provider>/<model>` as the app labels it, for the
+project's own local server only: with `--url` it is `null` (the agent there does not report
+its model, and the project's settings need not be what runs there), in the results too.
+
+Additive keys the implementation writes (all contract keys above are present unchanged): the
+wrapper also carries `dataset_paths` (project-relative dataset files), `base_url`, `app_name`,
+`target` (`local` for the project's own local server, `url` for `--url`) and `model_provider`
+(the project's `MODEL_PROVIDER`; it describes the agent only when `target` is `local`); each
+trace carries `case` (the original dataset case, so `eval grade` can work from the trace file
+alone) and, only for cases with several user messages, `turns` (one record per turn with its
+`response`, `tool_calls`, `usage` and `latency_ms`; the top-level fields are the final turn's).
+`approvals` (each turn's, and the final turn's at the top level) records every gate the run hit:
+`{approval_id, api, method, path, operation_id, approvers, match, decision, status, error,
+cleanup}`, `status` being `approved`, `rejected`, `unexpected` (no instruction matched: the case
+is `error`), or the refusal of the decision (`forbidden`, `not_found`, `not_pending`,
+`expired`). `cleanup` says how a gate the case did not decide (unexpected, or its decision
+refused) was closed so the eval leaves no approval pending: `rejected` (the eval rejected it,
+as whoever may decide it), `not_pending` (the server says it no longer waits),
+`thread_deleted` (the eval may not reject it, so it deleted the case's thread as the eval
+identity, which owns it: deleting a thread deletes its approvals), or `left_pending` (nor could
+the thread be deleted: its id is in the case error, and it waits until it expires unless an
+approver approves or rejects it first); `null` for a gate the case decided. A turn that passed a gate folds the paused run and its continuation into one
+record: the replies, tool calls, usage and latency of both.
+Judges and `expect.scope: all_turns` read `turns`; a multi-turn trace without them (an older file
+or an `eval.generate` override) shows the judge "[reply not recorded in the trace]" for the
+earlier turns, and `eval grade` warns. `eval grade --dataset` re-reads the dataset instead of
+`case`.
+
+## Results file (written by `eval grade`)
+
+```json
+{
+  "dataset_hash": "sha256...",
+  "graded_at": "2026-09-22T10:05:00+00:00",
+  "judge": {"provider": "openai", "model": "gpt-5-mini"},
+  "capture": "metadata",
+  "summary": {"passed": 8, "failed": 1, "quality_below_threshold": 1, "error": 0, "missing": 0, "exit_code": 1},
+  "quality": {"response_quality": {"pass_rate": 0.9, "min_pass_rate": 0.9, "met": true, "scored": 10, "passed": 9}},
+  "cases": [
+    {
+      "id": "greeting",
+      "status": "failed",
+      "reasons": ["contains: response does not contain hello"],
+      "checks": {"contains": false, "tool_calls": true},
+      "judge_scores": {
+        "response_quality": {"score": 5, "threshold": 4, "passed": true, "quality": true, "reasoning": "...", "error": null, "kind": "judge"}
+      }
+    }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+`summary.exit_code` is what the command returned. `quality.<metric>.pass_rate` is `passed /
+scored`: of the cases scored on that metric (the cases that declare it and reached the judge;
+`scored` is the denominator), the fraction that met the threshold. A case that never declared
+the metric does not count. It is only computed when no case is `error` or `missing`; `pass_rate`
+and `met` are `null` on an incomplete run (`status: incomplete`) and when no case ran the metric
+(`status: not_run`, which cannot fail the gate); otherwise `status` is `met` or `not_met`.
+
+Additive keys the implementation writes: top-level `generated_at`, `agent_version`, `model`,
+`traces_files`, `dataset_paths`, `traces_dataset_hash` (the dataset the traces came from; differs
+from `dataset_hash` only when `--dataset` graded stale traces, which `eval compare` warns about),
+`config` (the effective eval config) and `planned` (the planned
+case ids); `quality.<metric>.below_threshold` (count); and `cases[*].judge_scores.<metric>` is the
+object shown above (`score`, `threshold`, `passed`, `quality` = whether the metric is a quality
+metric, `reasoning`, `error`, `kind` = `judge` for a model judge or `custom` for a
+`custom_metrics` callable, whose errors read `custom metric <name>: ...` and which `eval analyze`
+groups as `error/custom`) rather than a bare number. Cases already `failed`, `error` or
+`missing` have empty `judge_scores` (judges are not called for them). Also additive: top-level
+`fake_model` (`["agent"]`, `["judge"]`, both or `[]`: which side ran on the deterministic fake
+model, so a "gate met" proves the plumbing only), `warnings` (the lines printed above the
+result: fake model, tool results cut for the judge, unrecorded turns) and, on a case whose judges
+did not see everything, `judge_notes`.
+
+## `eval_config.yaml`
+
+```yaml
+judge: { provider: null, model: null }          # null = agent's provider/model
+                                                 # max_tool_result_chars: 50000 (null = never cut)
+quality_metrics:                                 # only these may be below 100 percent
+  response_quality: { threshold: 4, min_pass_rate: 0.9 }
+judges:                                          # rubric text is versioned here
+  response_quality: { scale: 5, rubric: "...", prompt_template: "..." }
+  task_success: { scale: 5, rubric: "...", prompt_template: "..." }
+  groundedness: { scale: 5, rubric: "...", prompt_template: "..." }
+custom_metrics: []                               # python callables: module:function
+```
+
+- `judge.provider` / `judge.model` override `JUDGE_*` from the environment for this project
+  (`null` = `JUDGE_MODEL_PROVIDER`/`JUDGE_MODEL_NAME`, else the agent's `MODEL_*`).
+- `judge.max_tool_result_chars` (default `50000`; `null` = never cut; else a whole number >= 1):
+  the characters of one tool result a judge sees. A longer result is cut with an in-band
+  `[TRUNCATED by graph-agents-cli: the judge sees the first N of M characters ...]` marker that
+  tells the judge not to treat a claim as unsupported only because it could come from the
+  omitted part; `eval grade` warns and records `judge_notes`. Any other `judge:` key is exit 3.
+- `judges: {}` is valid and means the three built-in rubrics; an entry overrides or adds one
+  (`scale`, `rubric`, `prompt_template`). A custom `prompt_template` may use exactly `{metric}`,
+  `{rubric}`, `{scale}`, `{conversation}`, `{transcript}`, `{response}`, `{reference}`,
+  `{context}`, `{reference_section}`, `{context_section}`, `{tool_calls_section}`; anything else
+  is exit 3 when the config loads. `{conversation}`: every earlier turn in full (user message,
+  `agent tool call: name(args) -> result` lines, the agent's reply) and the latest user message,
+  with `--- turn i of n ---` separators on a multi-turn case. `{tool_calls_section}`: the scored
+  reply's own tool calls. `{transcript}`: `{conversation}` plus the scored reply's tool calls and
+  the reply itself, for templates that want the case as one block.
+- `quality_metrics.<name>` needs both `threshold` (per-case score) and `min_pass_rate`
+  (aggregate fraction of the cases scored on the metric, default `1.0`).
+- A case's `judge.<name>.threshold` overrides the config threshold for that case.
+- `custom_metrics` entries are `module:function` callables
+  `fn(case: dict, trace: dict) -> bool | number | {"score": n, "reasoning": str}` (default
+  threshold `1.0`), run inside the project's environment through the staged judge runner, applied
+  to every case, and treated like judge metrics (mandatory unless designated quality).