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AgentCompass: Towards Reliable Evaluation of Agentic Workflows in Production

arXiv 2509.14647 ↗First posted 18 Sep 2025cs.AI cs.CLcited by 6

On the map: LLM agents and tool use → Software engineering coding agents

Abstract (arXiv)

With the growing adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) in automating complex, multi-agent workflows, organizations face mounting risks from errors, emergent behaviors, and systemic failures that current evaluation methods fail to capture. We present AgentCompass, the first evaluation framework designed specifically for post-deployment monitoring and debugging of agentic workflows. AgentCompass models the reasoning process of expert debuggers through a structured, multi-stage analytical pipeline: error identification and categorization, thematic clustering, quantitative scoring, and strategic summarization. The framework is further enhanced with a dual memory system-episodic and semantic-that enables continual learning across executions. Through collaborations with design partners, we demonstrate the framework's practical utility on real-world deployments, before establishing its efficacy against the publicly available TRAIL benchmark. AgentCompass achieves state-of-the-art results on key metrics, while uncovering critical issues missed in human annotations, underscoring its role as a robust, developer-centric tool for reliable monitoring and improvement of agentic systems in production.

Key facts. Cited by 6 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Software engineering coding agents, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 11 of its 14 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 18 Sep 2025.

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  1. 2025Murakkab: Resource-Efficient Agentic Workflow Orchestration in Cloud Platforms22 Aug

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  9. 2025Adaptive AI Agent Placement and Migration in Edge Intelligence Systemscited by 3
  10. 2025Adaptive Monitoring and Real-World Evaluation of Agentic AI Systemscited by 2

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  1. 2025TRAIL: Trace Reasoning and Agentic Issue Localization
  2. 2026AgentEval: DAG-Structured Step-Level Evaluation for Agentic Workflows with Error Propagation Tracking
  3. 2025XAgen: An Explainability Tool for Identifying and Correcting Failures in Multi-Agent Workflows
  4. 2026AgentCompass: A Unified Evaluation Infrastructure for Agent Capabilities
  5. 2026Agentic CLEAR: Automating Multi-Level Evaluation of LLM Agents
  6. 2026AgentFactory: Towards Automated Agentic System Design and Optimization
  7. 2026AgentProcessBench: Diagnosing Step-Level Process Quality in Tool-Using Agents
  8. 2026AEVAL: From Anecdotal to Deterministic Testing for Agentic Skill Workflows