ASSERT Agent Evaluation Harness 2026 Review: Requirement-Driven Testing for AI Agents
ASSERT (Adaptive Spec-driven Scoring for Evaluation and Regression Testing) is an open-source, requirement-driven evaluation harness for AI agents and LLM applications, announced at Microsoft Build 2026. Built by Microsoft’s Responsible AI organization and released under the MIT license, ASSERT transforms natural-language agent policies into executable test suites through a four-stage pipeline — systematize, test set, inference, and judge — making it the first framework to bridge the gap between product requirements and automated test coverage for AI agents. ...