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Practical explanations of behavioral environments, judgment during execution, and the evidence needed to compare agents.

Field guide / Behavioral simulation

What is behavioral simulation for AI agents?

Behavioral simulation creates interactive test settings in which a simulated person has goals, knowledge, preferences, and constraints. Their responses can change as an agent acts, so evaluation follows the interaction and its outcome.

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Field guide / Judgment during execution

What is inference-time alignment?

Inference-time alignment evaluates or steers an AI system while it is doing a task. In Helm’s runtime judgment workflow, the decision point connects the agent’s intended action with human intent, operating authority, available evidence, and expert judgment.

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Field guide / Evaluation protocol

How to evaluate an AI agent and its harness

Evaluate an agent as a complete configuration: model, instructions, tools, memory, execution logic, and environment. Define the task outcome first, compare candidates on versioned tasks, and inspect both resource use and consequential failures.

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