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Adds a config-driven MLflow GenAI evaluation setup to the agentic_rag template. Developers can evaluate their agent's traces using core scorers (Safety, RelevanceToQuery, Completeness, Correctness, ToolCallCorrectness, ToolCallEfficiency, PIILeakage), RAG-specific retrieval scorers (RetrievalGroundedness, RetrievalRelevance, RetrievalSufficiency), plus custom scorers — all configured via YAML, no Python edits needed.

Key changes:

  • evaluation/eval_config.yaml — scorer configuration with core, use-case (RAG), and guidelines sections. Scorers can come from MLflow, any MLflow-integrated third-party framework (e.g., DeepEval, Phoenix), or custom definitions in scorers.py
  • evaluation/scorers.py — template for custom scorer definitions
  • evaluation/run_eval.py — sends golden queries to the running agent, reads traces from MLflow, resolves scorers dynamically via importlib. Isolates traces from the current run via a timestamp baseline, then matches traces to golden queries by exact question-content comparison (immune to interleaved traces from concurrent agent traffic), with polling/retry for async trace flush
  • evaluation/eval_data.yaml — placeholder golden queries with examples
  • src/agentic_rag/tools.py — RETRIEVER span logging in the retriever tool so RAG scorers can evaluate retrieval quality
  • PIILeakage toggled via EVAL_ENABLE_PII env var (no code commenting/uncommenting)
  • make eval target added
  • EVAL_JUDGE_*, EVAL_ENABLE_PII, EVAL_REQUEST_TIMEOUT, EVAL_POLL_INTERVAL, AGENT_URL env vars in .env.example
  • README evaluation section with scorer configuration docs and link to enablement material

How it works:

  1. Developer runs agent with tracing enabled
  2. Developer adds golden queries to evaluation/eval_data.yaml
  3. Developer customizes guidelines and scorers in evaluation/eval_config.yaml
  4. Developer runs make eval → sends queries to agent, reads traces, attaches expectations, scores them
  5. Results logged to MLflow

Jira Ticket

RHAIENG-7143

Testing

  • make test passes (run from the affected agent directory)
  • Manual testing performed (describe steps below)
  • No testing required (documentation/config change only)

Tested end-to-end on OpenShift MLflow (agen-e2e-rhoai2 cluster):

  • Agent running with tracing enabled, traces recorded in MLflow
  • make eval sends golden queries, reads traces, attaches expectations
  • All 10 scorers produce results (Safety, RelevanceToQuery, Completeness, Correctness, Guidelines, ToolCallCorrectness, ToolCallEfficiency, RetrievalGroundedness, RetrievalRelevance, RetrievalSufficiency)
  • Timestamp-based trace isolation verified — only current run's traces evaluated
  • Content-based matching confirmed immune to interleaved traces
  • Retry loop confirmed working for async trace flush delays

Checklist

  • I have read CONTRIBUTING.md
  • No .env or secret files are included in this PR
  • All changes are within scope of the linked Jira ticket (if not, explain in Description)

Review Guidance

  • evaluation/run_eval.py is the core logic — config-driven scorer resolution via resolve_scorer() and get_scorers(), plus timestamp + content-based trace matching in main()
  • evaluation/eval_config.yaml is the user-facing config — three sections (core, use_case, guidelines)
  • src/agentic_rag/tools.py — RETRIEVER span logging needed for the RAG use-case scorers
  • pyproject.toml eval deps: mlflow[kubernetes], pyyaml, httpx, deepeval
  • README Evaluation section is substantial — documents the full scorer architecture including RAG-specific scorers

sanafayyaz315 and others added 2 commits August 31, 2026 15:20
- Config-driven scorer setup via evaluation/eval_config.yaml
  (7 core + 3 RAG scorers, 10 total)
- evaluation/scorers.py for custom scorer definitions
- evaluation/run_eval.py: sends golden queries to agent, reads traces,
  evaluates with dynamically resolved scorers
  - Content-based poll matching for data readiness
  - httpx.RequestError catch-all for invalid URLs
  - Empty-trace guard before evaluate()
  - Configurable EVAL_REQUEST_TIMEOUT and EVAL_POLL_INTERVAL
- evaluation/eval_data.yaml: placeholder golden queries with expectations
- RETRIEVER span logging in tools.py for RAG scorer compatibility
- make eval target
- EVAL_JUDGE_*, EVAL_ENABLE_PII, EVAL_REQUEST_TIMEOUT,
  EVAL_POLL_INTERVAL, AGENT_URL env vars in .env.example
- README evaluation section with scorer docs and enablement link

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Adds optional MLflow tracing and a configuration-driven evaluation workflow to the Agentic RAG template. The workflow generates agent traces, matches them to golden queries, applies configured scorers, and reports evaluation metrics.

Changes

Agentic RAG evaluation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Evaluation contracts and configuration
agents/langgraph/templates/agentic_rag/pyproject.toml, agents/langgraph/templates/agentic_rag/.env.example, agents/langgraph/templates/agentic_rag/evaluation/eval_config.yaml, agents/langgraph/templates/agentic_rag/evaluation/eval_data.yaml, agents/langgraph/templates/agentic_rag/evaluation/scorers.py, agents/langgraph/templates/agentic_rag/README.md
Adds evaluation dependencies, environment settings, scorer definitions, golden-query templates, custom scorer guidance, and evaluation documentation.
Retriever trace instrumentation
agents/langgraph/templates/agentic_rag/src/agentic_rag/tools.py, ty.toml
Adds optional MLflow RETRIEVER spans with retrieved documents and metadata. Adds type-checker configuration for the optional import.
Evaluation execution and entry point
agents/langgraph/templates/agentic_rag/evaluation/run_eval.py, agents/langgraph/templates/agentic_rag/Makefile
Loads evaluation configuration, generates and matches traces, attaches expectations, resolves scorers, polls MLflow, and reports metrics through make eval.
Evaluation workflow validation
agents/langgraph/templates/agentic_rag/tests/test_eval.py
Tests configuration and data loading, scorer resolution and collection, trace matching, and expectation attachment.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to bdcbb

The new evaluation workflow can terminate when given an invalid scorer definition or a negative request-timeout setting, preventing results from being produced. These are bounded configuration-handling issues, but they should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

Suggested reviewers: tarun-etikala

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Makefile
  participant run_eval
  participant AgentChatCompletions
  participant MLflow
  Makefile->>run_eval: Run evaluation script
  run_eval->>AgentChatCompletions: Submit golden queries
  AgentChatCompletions->>MLflow: Record traces
  run_eval->>MLflow: Match traces and execute scorers
  MLflow-->>run_eval: Return evaluation metrics
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In `@agents/langgraph/templates/agentic_rag/evaluation/run_eval.py`:
- Around line 237-239: Update the evaluation flow around the trace-matching loop
and request dispatch to generate a unique evaluation-run identifier, send it
with every evaluation request, and persist it in the resulting trace metadata.
Filter traces by this identifier before comparing _extract_question(t) against
golden_questions, so only traces from the current run contribute to matched and
expected_count.
- Line 1: Run Ruff formatting on the evaluation script containing the module
docstring, applying only the formatter’s changes and preserving the existing
behavior.
- Line 181: Update the judge endpoint handling around the env_var assignment to
prevent sending a configured judge key over non-loopback HTTP: require HTTPS for
remote endpoints, while allowing HTTP only for loopback hosts, or omit the
credential when that condition is not met.

In `@agents/langgraph/templates/agentic_rag/evaluation/scorers.py`:
- Around line 13-17: Update the my_domain_scorer example to use MLflow’s
custom-scorer signature with keyword-only inputs, outputs, expectations, or
trace parameters, and return a supported primitive score or Feedback result
instead of a dictionary. Keep the domain-quality scoring intent and rationale
behavior intact so the example is valid when enabled through eval_config.yaml.
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sanafayyaz315 and others added 3 commits September 1, 2026 09:55
- ruff format run_eval.py
- ty.toml override for the optional mlflow import in tools.py
  (try/except None-fallback trips ty's module-vs-None check)
- regenerate stale uv.lock
Ports react_agent's test_eval.py coverage (config/data loading, scorer
resolution, trace-expectation matching) and adds a case for agentic_rag's
RAG-specific use_case scorers, which are enabled by default unlike
react_agent's.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The @scorer example used positional request/response/expected_facts
params and returned a dict, neither of which MLflow's @scorer contract
supports. Update to keyword-only inputs/outputs/expectations/trace and
a Feedback return, per MLflow GenAI docs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Dev-Team Review — 4-Dimension Analysis

Solid feature addition — config-driven evaluation with dynamic scorer resolution, timestamp-based trace isolation, and content-based matching is well-designed. The test coverage for run_eval.py utilities is good. A few issues to address before merge:

Findings

# Severity Category File Description
1 Major Consistency README.md ~L190 vs scorers.py README custom scorer example shows old signature (request, response, expected_facts=None) returning dict, but scorers.py (fixed in 97bef41) now uses (*, inputs, outputs, expectations=None, trace=None) returning Feedback. Users following README will write broken scorers.
2 Major Correctness run_eval.py:133 resolve_scorer() blindly calls cls_or_obj(model=model) for all classes. Custom class-based scorers that don't accept model= throw TypeError. Should introspect the constructor or try/except.
3 Major Robustness run_eval.py:225 EVAL_POLL_INTERVAL=0 → ZeroDivisionError in max(trace_timeout // poll_interval, 1). Negative values also produce nonsensical behavior.
4 Major Robustness run_eval.py:127-131 Typo in eval_config.yaml (module: mlflow.genai.scorerz) crashes the entire eval run with ModuleNotFoundError. Since this is user-editable config, should catch and report "scorer X could not be loaded, skipping" instead of crashing. Same for AttributeError from getattr.
5 Minor Robustness run_eval.py:41,222-224 Non-numeric env var values for EVAL_REQUEST_TIMEOUT/EVAL_TRACE_TIMEOUT/EVAL_POLL_INTERVAL raise bare ValueError with no user-friendly message.
6 Minor Consistency pyproject.toml Tracing extra changed from mlflow>=3.10.0 to mlflow[kubernetes]>=3.11.0 — the [kubernetes] sub-extra pulls in the kubernetes Python package, which is unnecessary for tracing-only users. The >=3.11.0 bump is fine, but [kubernetes] should stay in the eval extra only.
7 Minor Consistency pyproject.toml httpx>=0.27 added to dev extras but test_eval.py doesn't use httpx directly (it mocks). Only the eval extra needs it.

Verified Clean

Items reviewed and confirmed correct (click to expand)
  • Security: yaml.safe_load() used correctly throughout. No injection vectors. importlib code execution is standard plugin pattern with developer-controlled config. Cleartext API key concern (CWE-319) is valid hardening suggestion but not blocking for a local dev tool — same risk model as any OpenAI SDK usage.
  • Correctness: _extract_question() correctly reads messages[0]["content"] matching generate_traces() payload format. Polling loop with expected_count=0 correctly evaluates existing traces. Re-fetch after attach_expectations correctly filtered by matched_ids. Fail-fast in generate_traces() is intentional and correct. RETRIEVER span placement in tools.py is correct hierarchy for MLflow RAG scorers.
  • Consistency: ty.toml override follows existing pattern. evaluation/__init__.py needed for test imports. Makefile target placement is acceptable. DEEPEVAL_TELEMETRY_OPT_OUT=YES uncommented by default is good practice. sys.path.insert in test matches other agent test patterns.

Suggested Fixes

#1 (README): Update the custom scorer example in the Evaluation section (~L190) to match the corrected scorers.py:

@scorer
def my_domain_scorer(*, inputs, outputs, expectations=None, trace=None):
    """Check domain-specific quality criteria."""
    # Your scoring logic here
    return Feedback(value=1.0, rationale="Meets criteria")

#3 (poll_interval): Guard against zero/negative:

poll_interval = max(int(os.getenv("EVAL_POLL_INTERVAL", "4")), 1)

#4 (scorer loading): Wrap resolution in try/except:

try:
    s = resolve_scorer(entry, judge_model)
except (ModuleNotFoundError, AttributeError) as e:
    print(f"WARNING: Could not load scorer '{entry.get('name')}': {e}. Skipping.")
    continue

#6 (pyproject.toml tracing extra): Revert to mlflow>=3.11.0 (without [kubernetes]).


Reviewed with 4-agent dev-team analysis (correctness, robustness, security, consistency). CodeRabbit's ruff-formatting and scorer-example findings confirmed addressed in follow-up commits. The trace-correlation-identifier suggestion from CodeRabbit is a nice-to-have but not blocking — the timestamp baseline + content matching provides sufficient isolation for a single-user eval tool.

- resolve_scorer: introspect __init__ signature before injecting model=,
  so custom @scorer functions and classes without a model param aren't
  called incorrectly
- get_scorers: catch per-entry load errors and warn/skip instead of
  crashing the whole eval run
- generate_traces/main: read EVAL_* timeout/interval env vars via a
  validated int helper, and guard poll_interval against zero/negative
  values
- README: fix custom scorer example to match the actual @scorer contract
  (Feedback return type, inputs/outputs/expectations/trace kwargs)
- pyproject.toml: drop unused httpx from dev extras, drop unnecessary
  kubernetes extra from tracing's mlflow dependency

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In `@agents/langgraph/templates/agentic_rag/evaluation/run_eval.py`:
- Line 153: Update the scorer construction and warning handling around
cls_or_obj and the handler at line 161 to catch TypeError from invalid
constructor signatures, including positional-only or additional required
parameters, and skip those entries via the existing warning path. Safely derive
the scorer name without calling entry.get on non-mapping entries, using a
fallback representation or label for malformed values.
- Line 53: Validate the request_timeout value returned by _get_int_env for
EVAL_REQUEST_TIMEOUT before any HTTP requests are sent, rejecting negative
values while preserving valid timeout behavior. Ensure the validation occurs in
the evaluation flow that uses request_timeout so invalid configuration cannot
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Dev-Team Review — 4-Dimension Analysis (Round 2)

All 7 findings from the previous review have been addressed. Two additional issues from CodeRabbit's second pass (TypeError in scorer loading, negative timeout values) have been identified with fixes below. The PR is in good shape — no blocking issues remain.

New Findings

# Severity Dimension File Description
1 Minor Robustness run_eval.py:161 _resolve_scorer_or_warn catches ModuleNotFoundError and AttributeError but not TypeError. A scorer class with an incompatible constructor (e.g., positional-only model param) throws TypeError and crashes the run. Fix: Add TypeError to the except tuple and use safe name extraction for non-dict entries.
2 Minor Robustness run_eval.py:53 _get_int_env allows negative integers. EVAL_REQUEST_TIMEOUT=-1 reaches httpx.post and raises ValueError under HTTPX 0.28.1. Same for EVAL_TRACE_TIMEOUT. Fix: Validate >= 0 after parsing.
3 Minor Correctness run_eval.py:253,261 expected_count = len(eval_data) (list length) vs golden_questions (set — deduplicates). Duplicate golden questions produce fewer traces than expected, causing the polling loop to run to exhaustion. Low risk — developer-authored data.
4 Info Consistency pyproject.toml react_agent tracing extra uses mlflow[kubernetes]>=3.11.0 while agentic_rag uses mlflow>=3.11.0. The agentic_rag version is more correct (kubernetes extra belongs in eval only), but creates cross-agent divergence. Sync in follow-up.

Suggested Fixes for #1 and #2

#1 — TypeError catch:

-    except (ModuleNotFoundError, AttributeError) as e:
-        print(f"WARNING: Could not load scorer '{entry.get('name')}': {e}. Skipping.")
+    except (ModuleNotFoundError, AttributeError, TypeError) as e:
+        name = entry.get("name") if isinstance(entry, dict) else "<invalid entry>"
+        print(f"WARNING: Could not load scorer '{name}': {e}. Skipping.")

#2 — Negative timeout validation (in generate_traces and main):

request_timeout = _get_int_env("EVAL_REQUEST_TIMEOUT", 60)
if request_timeout < 0:
    print(f"ERROR: EVAL_REQUEST_TIMEOUT={request_timeout} is negative.")
    raise SystemExit(1)

Same pattern for EVAL_TRACE_TIMEOUT.

Verified Clean (across all dimensions)

Items reviewed and confirmed correct (click to expand)

Correctness:

  • _extract_question correctly reads messages[0]["content"] matching generate_traces payload format
  • Timestamp isolation via baseline_ms correctly excludes pre-existing and includes new traces
  • attach_expectations 1:1 matching with matched_ids skip prevents double-matching
  • resolve_scorer constructor introspection correctly detects model param and **kwargs
  • get_scorers / eval_config.yaml schema alignment verified
  • expected_count=0 path evaluates pre-existing traces without unnecessary delays
  • eval_data.yaml format matches load_eval_data and generate_traces expectations

Robustness:

  • All httpx exceptions covered: ConnectError, TimeoutException, HTTPStatusError, RequestError
  • Empty eval_data.yaml → expected_count=0, skips generate_traces/attach_expectations
  • load_eval_config returns {} on empty YAML; get_scorers handles missing keys
  • MLflow import failure in tools.py handled via try/except
  • poll_interval floored to 1 (ZeroDivisionError fix from round 1 confirmed)
  • Polling race condition is benign — worst case is one extra sleep iteration

Security:

  • yaml.safe_load() used correctly everywhere. No yaml.load().
  • importlib pattern acceptable for developer-controlled config
  • API keys never logged. Error messages print URLs/status only.
  • CWE-319 (HTTP cleartext) is same risk model as OpenAI SDK local dev — non-blocking
  • No SSRF risk — AGENT_URL is developer-set in .env
  • .env.example has no real credentials; DEEPEVAL_TELEMETRY_OPT_OUT=YES is a good default

Consistency:

  • Makefile eval target matches react_agent pattern exactly
  • .env.example comment style matches existing pattern
  • pyproject.toml extras structure (auth/dev/eval/tracing) identical across agents
  • evaluation/ correctly excluded from Dockerfile container build
  • Code style (f-strings, print-based output, SystemExit) consistent with codebase
  • EVAL_ prefix naming convention consistent
  • README evaluation section follows existing style

Previous Review Findings — All Addressed

# Finding Status
1 README custom scorer example mismatch ✅ Fixed
2 resolve_scorer() blindly calls cls_or_obj(model=model) ✅ Fixed (constructor introspection added)
3 EVAL_POLL_INTERVAL=0 → ZeroDivisionError ✅ Fixed (max(..., 1))
4 Scorer loading crashes entire eval run ✅ Fixed (_resolve_scorer_or_warn wrapper)
5 Non-numeric env vars raise bare ValueError ✅ Fixed (_get_int_env with clear message)
6 tracing extra has [kubernetes] ✅ Fixed (removed from tracing, kept in eval)
7 httpx in dev extras ✅ Fixed (only in eval extra)

Reviewed with 4-agent dev-team analysis (correctness, robustness, security, consistency). All previous major findings confirmed addressed. Two quick fixes suggested above — once applied, PR is ready to merge.

…ve int env vars

Addresses two findings from shricharan-ks's round-2 review: scorer loading
only caught ModuleNotFoundError/AttributeError, letting a TypeError from an
incompatible scorer constructor crash the whole eval run; _get_int_env
accepted negative values, which reached httpx.post(timeout=-1) as a raw
ValueError instead of a clear config error.

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Dev-Team PR Review Summary

Classification: pr-review
Team: Checker (correctness, robustness, consistency) + Security Reviewer (credentials, SSRF, dynamic imports)
Scope: 13 files, +1171/−8 — config-driven MLflow GenAI evaluation for agentic_rag
CI: All checks passing (lint, type-check, unit tests, secret-scanning)

This is a well-designed feature addition. The eval workflow improves meaningfully on the existing react_agent template: golden-query-aware trace polling, resilient scorer loading (_resolve_scorer_or_warn), constructor introspection for custom @scorer functions, empty-match guard before mlflow.genai.evaluate, and RAG-specific scorers backed by RETRIEVER spans in tools.py. Unit tests (tests/test_eval.py, 21 cases) cover config loading, scorer resolution, and expectation attachment. End-to-end validation on OpenShift MLflow is documented in the PR description.

Previous review rounds addressed the major blockers (README/scorer signature mismatch, scorer crash on bad config, poll-interval division, pyproject extras). Those fixes are confirmed in the latest commits.


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Important (2)

  1. [Important] Partial golden-query matching proceeds silently -> After the poll loop, warn when len(matched_ids) < len(eval_data) so developers know evaluation ran on a subset [evaluation/run_eval.py:277-303]

    • Today a warning fires only when total trace count is low (len(traces) < expected_count), not when enough traces exist but content matching is incomplete. Eval can proceed on partial data without an explicit "N/M golden queries matched" message.
    • Fix: After attach_expectations, compare len(matched_ids) to len(eval_data) and print e.g. WARNING: Matched 2/5 golden queries; unmatched queries will not be evaluated.
  2. [Important] No RETRIEVER span when retrieval returns zero usable chunks -> Always emit a RETRIEVER span (with empty outputs) when the retriever tool runs [src/agentic_rag/tools.py:109-110,143-147]

    • Span logging is gated on if mlflow and retriever_docs, so paths where response.chunks is empty (L109) or all chunks are filtered out (L150) produce no span. MLflow RAG scorers expect a RETRIEVER span even for empty retrieval; without it, RetrievalRelevance / RetrievalSufficiency may error instead of scoring "no documents retrieved."
    • Fix: Log the span whenever retrieval is attempted; call span.set_outputs([]) on zero-result paths.

Suggestions (5)

  1. [Suggestion] Eval against auth-enabled deployments -> Add optional EVAL_AGENT_TOKEN / auth header support in generate_traces() [evaluation/run_eval.py:61-68]

    • Agent supports Authorization: Bearer and X-Api-Key via auth_wrapper.py, but eval sends unauthenticated POSTs. Blocks eval on deployed agents with AUTH_ENABLED=true.
  2. [Suggestion] Module allowlist for dynamic scorer imports -> Restrict importlib.import_module(entry["module"]) to known prefixes [evaluation/run_eval.py:145-146]

    • Acceptable for developer-controlled config today; an allowlist (mlflow.genai.scorers*, local scorers) reduces risk if config is tampered with in shared CI.
  3. [Suggestion] Document timeout tuning env vars in README -> Mention EVAL_REQUEST_TIMEOUT, EVAL_TRACE_TIMEOUT, EVAL_POLL_INTERVAL [README.md evaluation section]

    • Already in .env.example but not documented in the README evaluation section.
  4. [Suggestion] Duplicate golden questions skew polling -> Align expected_count with deduplicated question set [evaluation/run_eval.py:253,260-261]

    • expected_count = len(eval_data) vs golden_questions as a set. Duplicate questions in YAML can cause polling to run to exhaustion. Low risk for developer-authored data.
  5. [Suggestion] Golden query text logged to stdout -> Gate full question text behind a verbose flag [evaluation/run_eval.py:89]

    • Eval questions may contain sensitive content in CI logs.

Strengths

  • Architecture: Config-driven scorer resolution via YAML + importlib is the right pattern for a template — no Python edits needed to customize scorers.
  • Trace isolation: Timestamp baseline + content-based matching handles concurrent agent traffic better than count-only polling in react_agent.
  • Resilience: _resolve_scorer_or_warn, _get_int_env, and negative timeout guards make misconfiguration survivable instead of crash-prone.
  • RAG integration: RETRIEVER span instrumentation in tools.py with graceful optional mlflow import; RAG scorers pre-configured in eval_config.yaml.
  • Testing: Solid unit test coverage including regressions for @scorer functions, empty YAML, and content-based trace matching.
  • Security basics: yaml.safe_load() throughout; API keys set in env but never logged; .env.example uses placeholders only.
  • Docs: README evaluation section is thorough — scorer sources, PIILeakage opt-in, RAG scorer caveats, and link to enablement material.

Verdict: Approve

No blocking issues remain. The two Important items are edge-case correctness/UX improvements worth a fast-follow commit but should not hold up merge of this template feature. Security hardening (auth headers, URL validation, module allowlist) aligns with follow-up work already noted for react_agent parity.


Reviewed with dev-team workflow: Checker + Security Reviewer agents, cross-checked against react_agent/evaluation/run_eval.py and project conventions (AGENTS.md).

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…uation

Integrates the eval framework (evaluation/ dir, eval extras, make eval
target, README section) built and validated in the demo, including the
scorer-loading and env-var-validation fixes from shricharan-ks's PR red-hat-data-services#337
review. Verified with unit tests and a live make eval run against both a
local MLflow server and the RHOAI-hosted instance.
sanafayyaz315 added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 7, 2026
…uation (#343)

Adds a config-driven MLflow GenAI evaluation setup to the
react_with_database_memory template. Developers can evaluate their
agent's traces using core scorers (Safety, RelevanceToQuery,
Completeness, Correctness, ToolCallCorrectness, ToolCallEfficiency,
PIILeakage) plus custom scorers — all configured via YAML, no Python
edits needed.

**Key changes:**

- `evaluation/eval_config.yaml` — scorer configuration with core,
use-case, and guidelines sections. Scorers can come from MLflow, any
MLflow-integrated third-party framework (e.g., DeepEval, Phoenix), or
custom definitions in `scorers.py`
- `evaluation/scorers.py` — template for custom scorer definitions
- `evaluation/run_eval.py` — sends golden queries to the running agent,
reads traces from MLflow, resolves scorers dynamically via `importlib`.
Isolates traces from the current run via a timestamp baseline, then
matches traces to golden queries by exact question-content comparison
(immune to interleaved traces from concurrent agent traffic), with
polling/retry for async trace flush
- `evaluation/eval_data.yaml` — placeholder golden queries (commented
out) for developers to fill in
- `make eval` target added
- `EVAL_JUDGE_*`, `EVAL_ENABLE_PII`, `EVAL_REQUEST_TIMEOUT`,
`EVAL_POLL_INTERVAL`, `AGENT_URL` env vars in `.env.example`
- README evaluation section with scorer configuration docs
- Includes the scorer-loading (`TypeError` handling) and
env-var-validation (negative integer rejection) fixes from
shricharan-ks's review on the agentic_rag PR (#337), applied here since
this template's `run_eval.py` shares the same base

**How it works:**

1. Developer runs agent with tracing enabled
2. Developer adds golden queries to `evaluation/eval_data.yaml`
3. Developer customizes guidelines and scorers in
`evaluation/eval_config.yaml`
4. Developer runs `make eval` → sends queries to agent, reads traces,
attaches expectations, scores them
5. Results logged to MLflow

## Testing

- [x] `make test` passes (run from the affected agent directory)
- [x] Manual testing performed (describe steps below)
- [ ] No testing required (documentation/config change only)

Tested end-to-end against both a local MLflow server and
OpenShift-hosted MLflow (agen-e2e-rhoai2 cluster):

- Agent running with tracing enabled, traces recorded in MLflow
- `make eval` sends golden queries, reads traces, attaches expectations
- All scorers produce results (Safety, RelevanceToQuery, Completeness,
Correctness, ToolCallCorrectness, ToolCallEfficiency, Guidelines)
- Timestamp-based trace isolation verified — only current run's traces
evaluated
- Content-based matching confirmed immune to interleaved traces
- Retry loop confirmed working for async trace flush delays
- Full unit test suite passing (41/41)

## Checklist

- [x] I have read CONTRIBUTING.md
- [x] No .env or secret files are included in this PR
- [x] All changes are within scope of the eval integration work

## Review Guidance

- `evaluation/run_eval.py` is the core logic — config-driven scorer
resolution via `resolve_scorer()`/`_add_scorer()` and `get_scorers()`,
plus timestamp + content-based trace matching in `main()`
- `evaluation/eval_config.yaml` is the user-facing config — three
sections (`core`, `use_case`, `guidelines`)
- `pyproject.toml` eval deps: `mlflow[kubernetes]`, `pyyaml`, `httpx`,
`deepeval`
- README Evaluation section documents the scorer architecture

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Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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