Evals Are Operational Gates
Claim
The conference corpus supports treating evals as operational gates for agent behavior, release decisions, and review routing, not only as after-the-fact benchmark reports.
Why It Is Supported
Evaluation pages, coding-agent workflow pages, and quality-gate talks converge on the need to stop or route agent work when evidence is missing or checks fail.
Source Evidence
- agent evaluations - Topic synthesis
- agent eval gate - Harness synthesis
- coding agent code review loop - Harness synthesis
- how should coding agents be evaluated before production use - Question layer
- 2026 06 29 nnenna ndukwe how to build quality gates into agentic coding workflows - Official schedule
- 2026 06 29 laurie voss from vibes to production evaluating and shipping ai agents that work 101 - Official schedule
- 2026 06 30 philipp schmid don t ship skills without evals - Official schedule
Confidence
high
Evidence Boundary
This claim summarizes a recurring evidence pattern. It should not be used as proof that every cited talk made the same recommendation in the same words.