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> ## Agent Instructions
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# Testing Your Agent
> Create scenarios, run them against your agent, and read the results, all from the LangWatch interface. Written for product managers and domain experts, no code involved.
## What this guide covers
This guide shows how to test your AI agent with simulations, entirely from the LangWatch interface. You write scenarios that describe real situations, run them against your agent, and read a clear verdict for each one. No code is involved in any step.
One technical step happens before this guide: a developer connects the agent to LangWatch, so simulations can talk to it and the judge can see what the agent did internally. Send your developer the [Connect your agent](/docs/agent-simulations/connect-your-agent) guide. It is a one-time setup and usually takes under an hour.
## What a scenario is
A scenario has two parts:
* **Situation**: who the user is and what they want. A simulated user plays this role and talks to your agent, turn by turn, like a real customer would.
* **Criteria**: what the agent must do, and must not do, for the conversation to pass. A judge model reads the full conversation, and the agent's internal actions, and decides each criterion.
You do not write the conversation itself. The simulated user improvises within the situation, so every run exercises your agent the way real users do: with slightly different words each time.
Write criteria about outcomes, not wording. "The agent looks up the order before answering" and "The agent does not promise a refund" are strong criteria. "The agent says exactly this sentence" is not.
## Where your scenarios live
Open **Agent Testing > Scenarios** in the sidebar. The rail on the left lists the test suites of the project, and the table lists the scenarios of the open test suite. A test suite groups scenarios: it has a name and the scenarios you file under it. Every project has a **Default** test suite, so a new scenario always has a place. Labels organize the scenarios inside a test suite:
## Create a scenario
Click **New Scenario**. You can describe what you want and let AI draft it, or build it yourself.
A scenario is saved in your project, and everyone with access to the project can read it. The AI draft step also sends the text you give it to a model. Remove names, contact details, account numbers and other personal data before you paste, or replace them with invented equivalents. The test works the same way with invented details.
### Draft with AI
Describe the behavior you care about in your own words. Paste in real material: a support ticket, a complaint email, a paragraph from a requirements document, or a snippet of a real conversation that went wrong. AI turns it into an editable situation and criteria:
### Build it yourself
The editor asks for the name, the situation, and the criteria, with guidance next to it. You can hand any half-written scenario to AI for a draft at any point:
Two tips that make scenarios much more useful:
* Include at least one criterion about what the agent does internally, such as "looks up the order before answering" or "reads the tender documents". The judge verifies these against the agent's real actions, not against what the reply claims.
* Write at least one "must not" criterion for each scenario. The most valuable tests describe the failure you are afraid of: inventing a date, quoting another customer's data, promising something the policy forbids.
## Create scenarios with Langy
Langy, the assistant in the bottom corner of every page, creates scenarios for you. Paste text from documents or conversations you already have, describe what must hold, and Langy writes and saves the scenario in one step:
Good material to paste: notes from a lost deal or an escalation, user interview quotes, acceptance criteria from a ticket, or a transcript of a conversation where the agent got it wrong. Each of these becomes a permanent test, so the same mistake cannot come back unnoticed. Remove personal data from the text first, as above.
## Create scenarios from your own tools
Your team's AI assistants can create scenarios too. Through the [LangWatch MCP integration](/docs/integration/mcp), tools such as Claude and Cursor can read and write scenarios in your project. A teammate can highlight a bug report in their editor and ask their assistant to turn it into a LangWatch scenario, without opening the platform.
## Run your scenarios
### Run one scenario
From the scenario editor, **Save and Run** asks which agent to run against:
Then it asks which models play the simulated user and the judge. The defaults are fine; change them only if your team has a preference:
The run of one scenario is recorded like every other run. It goes under the run plan named after the scenario and the target, so you can run the same check again later and compare.
### Run a test suite
A test suite runs every scenario in it against the agent you pick. This is what you run before a release, or after every change. Open the test suite in **Agent Testing > Scenarios** and press **Run**.
The confirmation shows what is about to run, including any parameters the scenarios declare, such as which test account to act as:
### What a run plan is
Every run belongs to a **run plan**, and the name of the plan is its identity. A test suite run uses the plan named after the test suite and the target, so each run of the same test suite against the same agent joins one history and you see the pass rate over time. Give the run a different name to keep it apart, or the name of a plan that exists to run under that plan again.
The plan holds the configuration of the run:
* **Scope**: all scenarios of the project, the scenarios of one or more test suites, the scenarios with given labels, or a hand-picked list.
* **Targets**: the agents or prompts to test.
* **Repeat count**: how many times to run each scenario, 1 to 5.
* **Models**: which model plays the simulated user, and which one judges.
A run also takes the values for the parameters the scenarios declare, and a note of up to 200 characters saying what you tested this time. The note belongs to the one run, not to the plan.
**Agent Testing > Results** lists the run plans of the project. Open a plan to see its runs, and open a run to see its results. **Show run settings** on a run tells you the configuration it ran with:
### Watch it run
Runs execute live. Each card is one conversation with your agent, and you can watch the messages arrive as the simulated user and the agent talk:
A full run of a few scenarios usually takes a few minutes. You can leave the page; the results are there when you come back.
## Read the results
Open any finished run. The top shows the conversation exactly as it happened, with the simulated user's messages and your agent's replies:
Below it, the verdict: which criteria were met, which were not, and the judge's reasoning in plain language. The reasoning cites what the agent actually did, such as which lookup it performed before answering:
Three outcomes are possible for a criterion:
* **Met**: the conversation, or the agent's internal actions, prove it.
* **Not met**: the agent did the thing the criterion forbids, or failed to do the thing it requires. Read the reasoning, then the conversation, and share both with your team; the run page link is enough for a developer to investigate.
* **Inconclusive**: the judge did not find evidence either way. For criteria about internal actions, this usually means the agent's traces did not arrive; ask your developer to check the connection with the [Connect your agent](/docs/agent-simulations/connect-your-agent) guide.
Each turn also carries a **View trace** link, opening the exact steps the agent took for that reply. You do not need to read traces yourself, but the link is the fastest thing to hand a developer when something looks wrong.
## Make it a habit
* Run your test suite before every release. The history of the run plan in **Agent Testing > Results** shows the pass rate over time, so a regression is visible the moment it happens.
* After every incident or complaint, add a scenario for it. The library becomes the collective memory of everything your agent must never do again.
* Keep scenarios short and focused: one situation, a handful of criteria. Ten small scenarios find more than one large one.