dokugent criteria¶

Manage evaluation rules for agent outputs using success conditions, failure flags, and metrics.

How to Use¶

dokugent criteria

Launches a step-by-step input flow for: - ✅ Success Conditions - ❌ Failure Conditions - 📊 Evaluation Metrics

Writes to a timestamped folder and symlinks it as active.

dokugent criteria --t

Creates a blank criteria.md with section headings only. Skips the wizard. Will not overwrite if file already exists.

Flag	Description
`--t`	Writes a blank criteria.md with just headings
`--edit`	Opens criteria.md in your `$EDITOR`
`--show`	Prints raw contents of criteria.md
`--check`	Validates required sections + token count
`--trace`	Prints formatted criteria view w/ validation

dokugent criteria --trace

Prints criteria.md in a sectioned format with: - Token estimate - Structural checks - Markdown section labels

dokugent criteria --edit

Opens the current criteria.md file in your terminal editor.

dokugent criteria --show

Prints the full raw contents of the active criteria.md.

dokugent criteria --check

Validates that required sections exist and contain at least one bullet: - Success Conditions - Failure Conditions - Evaluation Metrics

Also estimates total token count.

# CRITERIA.md

## Success Conditions
-

## Failure Conditions
-

## Evaluation Metrics
-

.dokugent/data/criteria/
├── happybot@2025-05-24_19-15-55-492/
│   └── criteria.md
└── criteria → happybot@2025-05-24_19-15-55-492/