---
id: "AEB-020"
category: "evaluation_architecture"
confidence: 0.96
date: "2026-02-15"
source_file: "Agentic OS Blueprint Research Synthesis (AlphaEvolve Evaluator section)"
---

# AEB-020

Evaluation cascades test solutions through progressively more demanding stages: syntactic check (static analysis), functional verifier (test suites), performance scorer (benchmarks), qualitative judge (LLM feedback) -- compute-heavy evaluations only run on candidates that pass preliminary checks, preventing waste on obviously flawed solutions

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