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Eval gate

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A pipeline stage that fails the build when an eval fails; the mechanism that turns an evaluation into an enforced control rather than a report.

Developed in
ch. 05, Pattern: Eval Gate in CI
Chapters
ch. 04, The Stack · ch. 05, Patterns
In the open reference
Evaluation environment control profile
Source
Defined by this Body of Knowledge: the section it is developed in is the source

Where it is used

23 chapters of the Body of Knowledge use the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

Patterns that use this term

17 pattern pages use the term; the 10 that use it most:

  • Supervised learning

    Learning from labelled examples.

  • Decision threshold

    The score above or below which an AI output triggers an action.

  • Calibration

    The property that a model's confidence matches its accuracy: of the cases scored 0.9, about nine in ten are right.

  • Jailbreak

    A prompt crafted to make a model disregard its safety instructions entirely.

Sources

No external source: the term is coined or used in a specific sense by this Body of Knowledge, and the section linked under "Developed in" is its source.

Definitions of legal terms paraphrase the cited text, which governs. Dated statements are as of .

Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). Eval gate. In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/eval-gate. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026evalgate,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{Eval gate}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/eval-gate}
}