How to install agent-eval
npx skills add https://github.com/colbymchenry/codegraph --skill agent-evalFull instructions (SKILL.md)
Source of truth, from colbymchenry/codegraph.
name: agent-eval description: Benchmark CodeGraph retrieval quality on a real codebase by comparing agent behavior with vs without CodeGraph. Use when the user runs /agent-eval or asks to test, benchmark, audit, or validate a codegraph version (the local dev build or a published npm version) against a language's repo.
CodeGraph Quality Audit
Measures how much CodeGraph helps an agent versus plain grep/read, for a chosen
codegraph version on a chosen real-world repo. Drives the harness in
scripts/agent-eval/.
Prerequisites
tmux3+, a logged-inclaudeCLI,node,git(macOS/Linux).- Run from the codegraph repo root.
Workflow
Copy this checklist:
- [ ] 1. Pick version (local or npm)
- [ ] 2. Pick language
- [ ] 3. Pick repo by size
- [ ] 4. Pick harness (headless / tmux / both)
- [ ] 5. Run audit.sh in the background
- [ ] 6. Report results
Step 1 — version. Ask with AskUserQuestion: which codegraph version to test.
Offer "Local dev build" and "Latest published"; the free-text "Other" lets the
user type a specific version (e.g. 0.7.10). Map the answer to a VERSION token:
- "Local dev build" →
local - "Latest published" →
latest - a typed version → that string (e.g.
0.7.10)
Step 2 — language. Read .claude/skills/agent-eval/corpus.json. Ask with
AskUserQuestion which language to test, listing the languages that have entries.
Step 3 — repo. From the chosen language's entries, ask which repo. Label each
option with its size and file count, e.g. excalidraw — Medium (~600 files).
Each entry carries the repo URL and a representative question.
Step 4 — harness. Ask with AskUserQuestion which harness to run, and map
the answer to a MODE token:
- "Headless" →
headless—claude -pwith stream-json: exact tokens/cost and a clean tool sequence (2 runs, fast, no TTY). - "Interactive (tmux)" →
tmux— drives the real Claude TUI in tmux: faithful Explore-subagent behavior, metrics from session logs (2 runs, slower). - "Both" →
all— headless + interactive (4 runs).
Step 5 — run. Launch in the background (sets the version, clones if missing, wipes + re-indexes, runs the chosen arms — several minutes):
scripts/agent-eval/audit.sh <VERSION> <repo-name> <repo-url> "<question>" <MODE>
Step 6 — report. When the job finishes, read the log and report per arm:
- Headless (
parse-run.mjs): total tool calls, fileReads, Grep/Bash, codegraph-tool calls, duration, total cost. - Interactive (
parse-session.mjs): theVERDICT: codegraph_explore used Nx | Read N | Grep/Bash NandTOKENS:lines.
Lead with cost + tool/Read counts — they are the reliable signals; raw token in/out are confounded by subagent delegation and prompt caching. State whether codegraph reduced effort and whether both arms reached a correct answer.
Notes
- The index is rebuilt every run (
audit.shwipes.codegraph) — different versions extract differently, so an index must be served by the same binary that built it. audit.shtemporarily mutates the globalcodegraphinstall for the test, then restores your dev link vialocal-install.sh.- Corpus repos are cloned to
/tmp/codegraph-corpus(reused if already present). - Add or edit repos in
corpus.json(fields:name,repo,size,files,question).
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