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What should reviewers inspect before trusting routing benchmark results?

A benchmark audit should examine label validity, evidence sufficiency, case diversity and adjudication records before attributing measured failures to the evaluated agent.

Review these properties before interpreting model scores, using a sample that covers ordinary cases and difficult boundaries so defects in the evaluation material are not mistaken for weaknesses in the agent.

- Have reviewers independently derive destinations from agent-visible evidence, then investigate disagreements instead of treating the generated answer as authoritative by default. - Check that each required decision has enough supporting evidence, and mark deliberate uncertainty explicitly so accidental omissions cannot silently become reasoning tests. - Inspect category coverage against the intended evaluation purpose, including whether rare but consequential routing boundaries receive enough attention to support separate analysis. - Search for answer clues in templates, ordering and metadata, especially repeated phrases that correlate with queues without expressing a business reason. - Review language variation for coherent requests, ensuring terse messages and imperfect grammar remain interpretable without introducing unintended changes to the requested outcome. - Maintain adjudication notes for contested cases, recording the decisive evidence and the rubric interpretation so later reviewers can reproduce the judgement. - Examine failures by case family before aggregation, checking whether one defective template or policy ambiguity is responsible for an apparent pattern of model weakness.

Establish that the benchmark can support its conclusions before using scores to compare systems.

Audience:
Evaluation teams
Content type:
Checklist
Buyer question:
How to evaluate it

Content release: r-a220eb6e099b243b

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