What an Evaluation Plan Should Contain

The plan should describe the workflow, user task, allowed behavior, disallowed behavior, and the decision the eval supports.

Without that definition, a test can measure activity while missing the business or engineering risk.

List what can be used safely: sanitized descriptions, redacted traces, public repositories, architecture diagrams, papers, sample datasets, or approved private access after scope.

Also state what must not enter the public intake flow: credentials, secrets, raw customer records, production data, or private repository access.

A threshold should explain what happens when it fails. Does the team block release, revise a subsystem, collect more data, or stop the path?

That connection is what turns an eval from a dashboard into a release tool.