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Week 4 of 5

Evals, security and observability

Know when the assistant works, stop it from being turned against you, and see what every request costs.

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Build this week

  • 30 to 40 eval cases (retrieval, faithfulness, tool choice)
  • An LLM-as-judge checked against 15 hand-labelled cases
  • A CI job that fails PRs below a score threshold
  • A red-team set with a poisoned document, plus tool allowlists, field minimisation and output checks
  • Tracing across agent steps and MCP calls, token cost per request, and a response cache
  1. Day 221 h 30 min

    Why evals

    Notes
  2. Day 231 h 30 min

    Judges and metrics

    Notes
  3. Day 241 h 30 min

    Attacks

    Notes
  4. Day 251 h 25 min

    Harnesses

    Notes
  5. Day 264 h 45 min · weekend

    Eval set and judge

    Notes
  6. Day 274 h 25 min · weekend

    Defend and observe

    Notes
  7. Day 281 h 20 min

    Week review

    • 50 min
    • 30 min
    Notes

If you have time

Checkpoint

Answer out loud, then rate yourself.

How do you know it works?
How do you defend against prompt injection?
How would you halve latency and cost?