Note
Evaluation as an operating boundary
Behavior tests, traces, reports, and approval gates make governance operational instead of decorative.
Context
Governance language is easy to write after an AI demo. It becomes useful only when behavior expectations are turned into cases a system can pass, fail, trace, compare, and review.
Observation
Agent Behavior Evals Lab treats approval, refusal, uncertainty, and grounding as testable behavior. The point is not a benchmark claim; it is a habit of defining limits before expanding scope.
What this changes
Evaluation moves from a final scoreboard to an operating gate: before more autonomy, the system needs cases, fixtures, reports, adjudication notes, and regression checks that a person can inspect.
Open question
Which behavior must be tested before a system is allowed to answer, suggest, route, change, or escalate?