Building Agents Backwards from Evaluation
SentinelOne, Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
SentinelLABS argues security agents should be built from evaluations defined by domain experts, measuring every change before production.
In part two of its LLMs in the SOC series, SentinelLABS says evaluating a security agent starts with defining the work it should perform and the evidence needed to call that work complete, with domain experts setting reference answers and grading criteria.
Teams should evaluate complete runs alongside tests of individual competencies, and compare every model, prompt, tool or workflow change against the previous system.
Operational failures should feed new test cases.