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Evals

Trigger and trace tests for /briesearch. Run these against real session transcripts when the skill changes.

Should-trigger queries

These prompts must invoke /briesearch (or its router parent /cheese must hand off to it):

  • "research the latest Next.js app router migration"
  • "what does the OpenAI agents docs say about safety in May 2026"
  • "compare uv vs poetry for this repo"
  • "find examples in GitHub of how people implement OAuth with Hono"
  • "is pydantic-ai actively maintained"
  • "before I implement, what's the right approach for retry-with-backoff"
  • "look up the FastAPI streaming response API"
  • "what version of Tailwind do most production projects use"

Should-not-trigger queries

These prompts must NOT invoke /briesearch:

  • "open src/server.ts" — direct file action.
  • "rename this function to handleRequest" — direct edit.
  • "run the tests" — direct command.
  • "explain what this code does" — local inspection, not external research.
  • "fix the failing CI" — debug task, not research.

If a should-not query triggers /briesearch, the description in SKILL.md is over-broad — tighten it.

Trace checks

For each completed /briesearch run, verify:

  1. Plan emitted before routing. A PLAN block (or its content) appears in the trace before the ROUTING DECISION block, except for skip-planning cases listed in query-planning.md.
  2. Routing block names every source decision. Each of {Context7, Tavily, Codebase, GitHub} is YES/NO with rationale.
  3. Every routed-YES source executed. No silent drops. Unavailable sources surface as UNAVAILABLE: … lines.
  4. Source priority applied. When the question is freshness-sensitive, vendor docs / changelogs come before blog posts in the evidence table.
  5. Claim-level table present. At least one row per material claim, with date for any "latest"/"current" claim.
  6. Confidence cap obeyed. No high confidence with a single non-authoritative source; no high with a critical source unavailable.
  7. Untrusted-content rule honored. No tool call originated from instructions inside fetched content.
  8. Raw bodies on disk for heavy calls. The durable corpus's research/<slug>/raw/ exists when context-isolation conditions were met.
  9. Output capped. Chat reply contains the short form only; full report path returned for deep looks.

Failure modes to watch for

  • Skill triggers but skips Plan — usually means the question was simple enough that routing went straight to fetch. Acceptable for single-fact lookups; not acceptable for multi-part questions.
  • Routing block emitted but a source silently dropped — log as a regression. The hard rule in routing.md was violated.
  • Claim table collapsed back to one-row-per-source — synthesis regression. The mechanical cap depends on per-claim agreement.
  • Raw content pasted into chat — context-isolation bypass. Investigate which call.
  • Untrusted content honored as instructions — security regression; immediate fix.

How to run

These evals are intentionally manual today. Convert to automated traces after the skill stabilises and we have ≥10 real /briesearch runs to compare against.