# evalview

Snapshot testing plugin for agents in Claude Code. It records tool calls and sequence order, catching silent behavioral regressions when prompts change.

- plugin · `type=plugin` · Claude Code · ★ 140
- Author: hidai25
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/hidai25/eval-view
- Updated: 2026-10-16
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/plugins/evalview

## What it does

EvalView brings snapshot testing to multi-turn agents. Traditional tests often pass when an agent returns status `200`, even if a prompt edit broke the tool order or degraded output. Instead of writing manual assertions upfront, this tool stores the actual execution path as a baseline.

The deterministic sequence check inspects tool names, parameters, and order completely offline without an API key. To handle non-deterministic paths, baselines can store up to 5 valid variants. Running the target agent still incurs provider backend charges, so the `--no-judge` flag only skips the evaluation layer, not model execution.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

**Plugin marketplace**
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
```
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin install evalview@claude-community
```

## When to use it
- detect silent shifts in tool call ordering after prompt edits
- record multi-turn agent baselines without writing manual assertions
- catch output degradation caused by upstream model changes
- block behavioral regressions directly in pull request workflows

## Example prompts
- Run evalview snapshot to record the current agent baseline
- Check the latest run against our baseline with evalview check
- Run evalview check --no-judge to diff tool trajectories offline

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<p align="center">
  <img src="assets/logo.png" alt="EvalView" width="350">
  <br>
  <strong>Snapshot testing for AI agents.</strong><br>
  Record what your agent does today. Get told when it silently changes.
</p>

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---

Your agent returns `200` and looks fine. But a model update, a provider change, or a one-line prompt edit just made it skip a clarification, call the wrong tool, or quietly drop output quality. Your tests still pass. Your users notice before you do.

**EvalView snapshots your agent's behavior — the tools it calls, in what order, with what output — and tells you the moment that behavior changes.** Like Jest snapshots, but for tool-calling, multi-turn agents.

[![demo.gif](assets/demo.gif)](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/96d8b5f7-3561-44a1-86a4-270fb0d1d8a6)

<sub>↑ 30-second live demo — no API key needed</sub>

## Quick Start

> **OpenAI adapter migration:** OpenAI shut down the Assistants API on **August 26, 2026**.
> The latest published EvalView release, **0.8.1**, still uses that API; the Responses API
> migration is currently **unreleased source**. If you use `openai-assistants`, follow the
> [migration guide](docs/OPENAI_MIGRATION.md) before running your tests. An `assistant_id`
> alone cannot preserve your agent's configuration. Other adapters are unaffected.

```bash
pip install evalview
```

```bash
evalview snapshot    # Record your agent's current behavior as the baseline
evalview check       # After any change, diff against the baseline
```

That's the whole loop. `check` returns one of:

```
  ✓ login-flow        PASSED          behavior matches baseline
  ⚠ refund-request    TOOLS_CHANGED   called a different tool, or in a different order
  ✗ billing-dispute   REGRESSION      score dropped — output quality fell
```

It diffs the **whole trajectory** — tool names, parameters, and order — not just the final string. The deterministic tool + sequence diff runs offline, with no API key. Add an LLM judge only when you want output-quality scoring.

Executing your agent can still incur backend API charges: `--no-judge` skips the
judge, not those calls. Embedding-based semantic comparison is opt-in.

No agent yet? See it work in 30 seconds:

```bash
evalview demo
```

## Why snapshot testing (and not assertions)?

Most eval tools ask you to *write down what "good" looks like* — assertions, metrics, rubrics. That's a lot of upfront work, and you can only catch the failures you thought to assert.
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