smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses
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- Blog / Newsletter2026-08-01 07:15:56smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses
<p><strong><a href="https://primeradiant.com/blog/2026/smevals.html">smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses</a></strong></p> I've been working with Jesse Vincent's <a href="https://primeradiant.com">Prime Radiant</a> applied AI research lab building out this evals framework to help answer questions about the capabilities of different models.</p> <p>The result is <strong><a href="https://github.com/prime-radiant-inc/smevals">smevals</a></strong>, a new tool for running small eval suites across different model configurations and grading the results.</p> <p>The <a href="https://primeradiant.com/blog/2026/smevals.html">blog entry</a> describes the tool in detail. Here's the 10 second version:</p> <ol> <li>Tell your coding agent to <code>run uvx smevals docs</code> to learn the tool (this outputs <a href="https://github.com/prime-radiant-inc/smevals/blob/main/README.md">the README</a>)</li> <li>Then tell it to build you an eval suite</li> </ol> <p>Once yo