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POST/api/v1/generate-eval-suite

Generate eval suite from natural language

Accepts a plain-English description of what to test and generates a complete eval configuration with test cases, scorers, and thresholds.

Authentication

Send Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY on every request. Generate API keys at /dashboard/settings/api-keys.

Request body required

Example

{
  "description": "Test a customer support chatbot that handles returns, refunds, and order tracking for an e-commerce platform",
  "output_format": "yaml",
  "test_density": "light"
}
Schema
{
  "application/json": {
    "schema": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "description": {
          "type": "string",
          "minLength": 10,
          "maxLength": 10000,
          "description": "Natural language description of the eval suite to generate",
          "example": "Test a customer support chatbot that handles returns, refunds, and order tracking for an e-commerce platform"
        },
        "output_format": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": [
            "yaml",
            "json"
          ],
          "description": "Output format for the generated config"
        },
        "test_density": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": [
            "light",
            "standard",
            "comprehensive"
          ],
          "description": "How many test cases to generate"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "description"
      ],
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
  }
}

Response

200 example

{
  "success": false,
  "data": {
    "config": {},
    "metadata": {},
    "usage_logs": [
      {}
    ]
  }
}

All status codes

200Generated eval suite
400(no description)
401Unauthorized — no valid credential was presented (AUTH_REQUIRED).
403Forbidden — the credential is valid but lacks the API-key scope, member role, or plan entitlement this operation requires.
429Too Many Requests — the per-key or per-organization rate limit was exceeded. Honour the Retry-After header.
500Internal Server Error — an unhandled error was converted to the standard error envelope (INTERNAL_ERROR).
502Pipeline execution failed

Code samples

cURL

curl -X POST \
  https://evalguard.ai/api/v1/generate-eval-suite \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EVALGUARD_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "description": "Test a customer support chatbot that handles returns, refunds, and order tracking for an e-commerce platform", "output_format": "yaml", "test_density": "light" }'

TypeScript

// The TypeScript SDK (@evalguard/sdk) exposes TYPED methods — runEval,
// getEval, runSecurityScan, checkFirewall, … — not a generic request().
// For an arbitrary endpoint, call it directly:

const res = await fetch("https://evalguard.ai/api/v1/generate-eval-suite", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.EVALGUARD_API_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "description": "Test a customer support chatbot that handles returns, refunds, and order tracking for an e-commerce platform",
    "output_format": "yaml",
    "test_density": "light"
  }),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.json());

Python

# The Python SDK (pip install evalguardai) exposes TYPED methods on
# EvalGuardClient — run_eval, get_eval, … — not a generic request().
# For an arbitrary endpoint, call it directly:

import os
import requests

headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['EVALGUARD_API_KEY']}"}
headers["Content-Type"] = "application/json"

response = requests.request(
    "POST",
    "https://evalguard.ai/api/v1/generate-eval-suite",
    headers=headers,
    json={
    "description": "Test a customer support chatbot that handles returns, refunds, and order tracking for an e-commerce platform",
    "output_format": "yaml",
    "test_density": "light"
},
)
print(response.status_code, response.json())

Go

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"os"
	"strings"
)

func main() {
	body := strings.NewReader(`{"description":"Test a customer support chatbot that handles returns, refunds, and order tracking for an e-commerce platform","output_format":"yaml","test_density":"light"}`)
	req, _ := http.NewRequestWithContext(context.Background(), "POST", "https://evalguard.ai/api/v1/generate-eval-suite", body)
	req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("EVALGUARD_API_KEY"))
	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil { panic(err) }
	defer resp.Body.Close()
	fmt.Println(resp.Status)
}

Errors

400401403429500502

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