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Agent evaluation is moving from tool-call scores to full task completion
Focus: Technical AI Engineering
Date: September 21, 2026
Topics: agent evaluation, tool use, task completion, AI reliability
Evidence: Official Announcement
Availability: Published
Summary: NVIDIA describes an evaluation approach that tests whether agents complete multi-step work in executable environments, tracking state across sequences of tool calls instead of judging isolated function invocations.
Why it matters: An agent can make individually valid tool calls and still fail the job. Production evaluation therefore needs end-to-end task outcomes, environment state, recovery behavior, and repeatability—not only model-level or single-call accuracy.
What to do now
Add end-to-end agent tests: Create representative tasks with executable environments and score completion, state changes, recovery, and final outcomes rather than isolated calls.
Source: How to Evaluate AI Agents From Tool Calls to Task Completion