Setting Goals and Success Criteria › What We've Covered

Before you test your agent, you need to know what you're testing for. Success criteria transform vague notions of "working well" into concrete, measurable targets.

We've explored how to define success criteria by starting with user goals and identifying multiple dimensions: correctness, reliability, efficiency, safety, and user experience. We've seen how to make criteria measurable by setting specific thresholds and how to prioritize when you can't optimize for everything at once.

For our personal assistant, we've established success criteria for each of these dimensions. These criteria will guide the testing and improvement work in the chapters ahead.

You now have a framework for defining what success means for your agent. In the next sections, we'll examine how to measure whether you're meeting these criteria and how to use that information to make your agent better.