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Run a Playground

The Playground is where you compare candidate prompt/model changes against a baseline before promoting anything. For an account-free introduction, open the public refund check. It starts with the computed result for one synthetic example: expected review, answer deny, and 0/1 checks passed. You can check the answer review against the same rule. This does not call a model or issue a refund. Other public examples include recorded samples and a check for your own output. The workspace comparison workflow below uses your evaluation cases.

Step 1 — Open a Playground

Open /playgrounds, then choose the evaluation you want to experiment on. The evaluation-scoped Playground lives at /evaluations/{id}/playground.

Step 2 — Define the baseline and candidates

Keep one baseline variant that represents the current behavior, then add one or more candidates. Freeze the prompt/model/configuration identity used by each run so the comparison remains interpretable.

Step 3 — Run the cases

Choose the cases and scorer, then start the run. Results retain variant, case, scorer/run evidence, model-call references, cost, and terminal status where available. A cancelled, partial, or otherwise incomplete run is not a verified winner.

Step 4 — Compare outcomes

Compare quality together with the protected requirements, reliability, latency, and cost that matter for the decision. Do not promote a candidate merely because one average metric improved.

Troubleshooting

  • Provider/connection failure — open Settings → AI providers, select the connection, and check its current health/model inventory.
  • Cost or provider policy block — resolve the named workspace policy rather than bypassing it.
  • All variants look identical — verify the scorer and cases can actually distinguish the behavior you changed.
  • A run is stuck or cancelled — inspect the run state and rerun only after the execution problem is understood.

Up next

Pick a winner only after the comparison evidence is complete.