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title: "How should coding agents be evaluated before production use?"
category: "questions"
status: "active"
sourceLabels: ["Official schedule", "Slide/OCR evidence", "Tool inventory", "Topic synthesis"]
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# How should coding agents be evaluated before production use?

## Why This Question Matters
Coding agents need evaluation gates before they can safely change code, trigger workflows, or influence production systems.

## Current Working Answer
This page is a first-pass research question, not a final recommendation. Use the linked evidence to refine the answer as more exact session recordings, transcripts, and reviewed slide readings become available.

## Source Evidence
- [[agent-evaluations]] — Topic synthesis
- [[coding-agents]] — Topic synthesis
- [[software-factories]] — Topic synthesis
- [[claude-agent-sdk]] — Tool inventory
- [[arize]] — Tool inventory
- [[braintrust]] — Tool inventory
- [[2026-06-29-laurie-voss-from-vibes-to-production-evaluating-and-shipping-ai-agents-that-work-101]] — Official schedule
- [[2026-06-30-philipp-schmid-don-t-ship-skills-without-evals]] — Official schedule
- [[youtube-Xfl50508LZM-slides]] — Slide/OCR evidence
- [[youtube-bk0TmxoZlUY-slides]] — Slide/OCR evidence

## Follow-Up
- Extract specific claims from the linked source pages.
- Separate official schedule evidence from supporting YouTube, transcript, and OCR evidence.
- Convert stable answers into playbooks, harnesses, or evaluations where appropriate.