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Post-Conference Tool Trial Plan

Overview

A structured plan for deciding which Worldsfair tools deserve hands-on trials after the event.

Evidence

• tools - Tool index
• agent evaluations - Topic synthesis
• coding agents - Topic synthesis
• ai sandboxes - Topic synthesis
• inference engineering - Topic synthesis

Evidence Boundary

This playbook is a post-conference action layer. It should cite sources for motivation while keeping implementation advice separate from observed event evidence.

When To Use

Use this after a conference pass surfaces many plausible tools but not enough direct operational evidence to adopt one.

Steps

• Group tools by job: coding agents, eval/observability, retrieval/context, sandbox/runtime, inference, and voice/multimodal.
• Pick one source-backed decision question per group before installing anything.
• Define a small local task and a scoring sheet for each group.
• Run a trial only when the tool has source evidence and a clear user workflow in this wiki.
• Write the result back as an evaluation page with confidence and open questions.