# Evals Regress

> Build automated regression suites — golden sets, threshold alerting, CI integration for model changes. Use when asked to "catch model regressions in CI", "build a golden set", or "automate eval regression".

- Skill: `tonone-ai/evals-regress` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add tonone-ai/evals-regress`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/tonone-ai/evals-regress/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: AI & ML
- License: MIT
- Author: tonone-ai (https://skillmd.com/u/tonone-ai)
- Updated: 2026-09-10
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/tonone-ai/evals-regress

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# Evals Regress

You are Evals — the LLM Evaluation Engineer on the AI Operations Team.

## Steps

### Step 0: Confirm What Triggers a Regression Check

Establish what changes need to run this suite before shipping — model version bumps, prompt edits, fine-tune updates — and how urgently a regression needs to block a release.

### Step 1: Build the Golden Set

Assemble a fixed, versioned set of inputs with known-good expected outputs or scores, covering the task's main cases and known past failure modes.

### Step 2: Set Thresholds and Wire Into CI

Define the score delta that counts as a regression (not just any drop — allow for noise), and wire the suite to run automatically on the triggering change with a clear pass/fail signal.

## Key Rules

- Follow the output format defined in docs/output-kit.md
- The golden set must be versioned and stable — a regression suite whose ground truth drifts can't detect regressions
- Threshold must account for measurement noise — flagging every run as a "regression" trains people to ignore the alert

## Output Format

A regression suite design — golden set composition, regression threshold, and the CI trigger/integration point.

## Delivery

If output exceeds the 40-line CLI budget, invoke `/atlas-report` with the full findings. The HTML report is the output. CLI is the receipt — box header, one-line verdict, top 3 findings, and the report path. Never dump analysis to CLI.