DevelopmentOct 30, 2026

Does ‘eval’ in the workspace path change what your agent does?

Your eval might be telling the agent it’s a test before the agent reads a single instruction. Eval tools need a fresh folder for every run, and the easiest way to get one is a temp directory with a random name like /tmp/eval-7f3a2c. The agent sees that path on every turn, in the system prompt […] The post Does ‘eval’…

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