# llm-eval-harness

This skill probes a third-party LLM endpoint across six dimensions: availability, request fidelity, speed, concurrency, protocol compliance and quality regression.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 372 installs · ★ 1493
- Author: daymade
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills/tree/HEAD/llm-eval-harness/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/llm-eval-harness

## What it does

Hand it a `base_url`, a model name and the name of an env var holding your API key. It then measures whether the endpoint works and whether the model is fast, stable and protocol-correct, rather than trusting the vendor's headline numbers.

Six Python scripts sit inside. `availability_probe.py` checks which model IDs answer, `fidelity_probe.py` checks whether system prompt, tools and history actually reach the model, `speed_probe.py` reports TTFT and sustained decode throughput, `concurrency_probe.py` ramps load until something breaks, `protocol_probe.py` exercises the Anthropic `thinking` block, and `usecase_runner.py` replays your accumulated cases. Runs go through `uv run --with ...`, so dependencies come along without a separate install step.

The key travels by variable name only (`--key-env MY_KEY`), never as a value on the command line. Keep your use-case library and model rosters in `~/.llm-eval/` rather than in the skill directory. One thing to watch: on an Anthropic-shaped route that wants an Authorization header instead of x-api-key, pass `--auth bearer`. The default is x-api-key, so without the flag the probe fails on auth and you get a misleading verdict.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill llm-eval-harness -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/llm-eval-harness/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/llm-eval-harness/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill llm-eval-harness -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/llm-eval-harness/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill llm-eval-harness -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/llm-eval-harness/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install daymade/claude-code-skills llm-eval-harness
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/llm-eval-harness/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill llm-eval-harness -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills --path llm-eval-harness
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/llm-eval-harness/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill llm-eval-harness -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills/tree/HEAD/llm-eval-harness/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- find out which model IDs actually answer on a new gateway
- check whether the system prompt reaches the model at all
- measure TTFT and sustained decode speed instead of a claimed figure
- locate the concurrency level where requests start failing
- catch quality regression after swapping a model or provider

## Example prompts
- run availability_probe against this base_url and model list, key in MY_KEY
- check fidelity: do system prompt and tools reach the model
- benchmark speed and concurrency for this endpoint, key in MY_KEY

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: llm-eval-harness
description: >-
  Tests/benchmarks a third-party LLM endpoint (OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible): availability,
  fidelity, speed, concurrency, protocol compliance, quality regression. Use before hand-rolling a
  curl loop, when onboarding a provider, or debugging "system prompt 不生效" / a tok/s claim —
  测评/压测一个模型或渠道. Not for TTS/voice-clone supplier eval (use the audio skill).
---

# LLM Eval Harness

## Overview

Give this skill an endpoint (`base_url` + `model` + an API key in an env var) and it
measures whether the endpoint actually works and whether the model is fast, stable,
protocol-correct, and good enough — instead of trusting the vendor's headline numbers.
Six dimensions, usually scattered across ad-hoc scripts that get rewritten (with the
same bugs) every time:

| Dimension | Script | Answers |
|---|---|---|
| **Availability** | `scripts/availability_probe.py` | which model IDs work here, with 3-state error classification |
| **Request fidelity** | `scripts/fidelity_probe.py` | do system prompt / tools / history actually REACH the model? |
| **Speed** | `scripts/speed_probe.py` | TTFT + sustained decode tok/s, **thinking-aware** |
| **Concurrency / stability** | `scripts/concurrency_probe.py` | success rate, p50/p90 latency, where it breaks |
| **Protocol compliance** | `scripts/protocol_probe.py` | does the Anthropic `thinking` block actually fire when requested, AND does the endpoint accept one already sitting in history on a later turn (N≥10, both are separate checks — see Dimension 3)? |
| **Quality / use-case regression** | `scripts/usecase_runner.py` + blind judges | does it pass *your* accumulated cases? |

## Which dimensions to run

Route from what the user is actually doing:

- "接入新模型/新网关先测一下" / onboarding a provider → **Availability → Fidelity**,
  then speed/concurrency if adoption looks likely
- "这个 ID 能不能用 / 写个支持列表" → **Availability** (and read disciplines §9 before
  writing any "unavailable" verdict)
- "模型不听 system prompt / agent 行为怪但没报错" → **Fidelity** (system canary)
- "快不快 / tok/s 是真的吗" → **Speed**; "扛不扛得住" → **Concurrency**
- "这个兼容端点是真兼容吗" → **Protocol** + Fidelity's tools/auth checks
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