Course Outline

Foundations of Mastra Debugging and Evaluation

  • Understanding agent behavior models and failure modes
  • Core debugging principles within Mastra
  • Evaluating deterministic and non-deterministic agent actions

Setting Up Environments for Agent Testing

  • Configuring test sandboxes and isolated evaluation spaces
  • Capturing logs, traces, and telemetry for detailed analysis
  • Preparing datasets and prompts for structured testing

Debugging AI Agent Behavior

  • Tracing decision paths and internal reasoning signals
  • Identifying hallucinations, errors, and unintended behaviors
  • Using observability dashboards for root-cause investigation

Evaluation Metrics and Benchmarking Frameworks

  • Defining quantitative and qualitative evaluation metrics
  • Measuring accuracy, consistency, and contextual compliance
  • Applying benchmark datasets for repeatable assessment

Reliability Engineering for AI Agents

  • Designing reliability tests for long-running agents
  • Detecting drift and degradation in agent performance
  • Implementing safeguards for critical workflows

Quality Assurance Processes and Automation

  • Building QA pipelines for continuous evaluation
  • Automating regression tests for agent updates
  • Integrating QA with CI/CD and enterprise workflows

Advanced Techniques for Hallucination Reduction

  • Prompting strategies to reduce undesired outputs
  • Validation loops and self-check mechanisms
  • Experimenting with model combinations to improve reliability

Reporting, Monitoring, and Continuous Improvement

  • Developing QA reports and agent scorecards
  • Monitoring long-term behavior and error patterns
  • Iterating on evaluation frameworks for evolving systems

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • An understanding of AI agent behavior and model interactions
  • Experience with debugging or testing complex software systems
  • Familiarity with observability or logging tools

Audience

  • QA engineers
  • AI reliability engineers
  • Developers responsible for agent quality and performance
 21 Hours

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