A tool to automatically test your AI agent without manual chatting
A developer on Reddit is building a tool that replaces the tedious process of manually typing test questions to check if your AI agent works correctly. The tool runs tests automatically, saving time each time you update your agent. It could be practical for anyone building or maintaining AI agents.
After building an AI agent, developers typically have to manually type in various questions and check the responses to make sure everything works — and repeat this every time they make a change. This manual back-and-forth is slow and easy to skip, which means bugs can slip through.
The tool being built would automate this process: you define test scenarios in advance, and the tool sends those prompts to your agent automatically and checks whether the responses are correct. This helps catch problems faster and keeps quality consistent, while also reducing the number of LLM calls you need to make during testing, which can cut costs.
Key points
- Automates the repetitive task of manually testing an AI agent by hand.
- Pre-defined test scenarios run automatically against your agent.
- Useful for regression testing — making sure old behavior still works after changes.
- Could reduce both development time and LLM API costs during testing.
- Currently in development; the builder is gathering feedback from potential users.
Quick term guide
- AI agent
- An AI program that can inspect information and suggest what to do next.
- AI agents
- AI agents are AI tools that can carry out steps toward a goal, not just answer once.
- developers
- Developers are people who build software, apps, or websites.
- responses
- An OpenAI API feature for creating and handling model answers.
- regression testing
- Checking that existing features still work correctly after you've made changes to the software.
- regression
- When a software update accidentally makes something that used to work well perform worse.
- API costs
- Fees paid when software calls an online service programmatically.
- feedback
- A response that tells a user what they did well or should fix.