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# Evaluation

frites ships two evaluation harnesses under `eval/`. **`pnpm eval`** runs the *value-gate* (`eval/value-gate.ts`), a frites-specific A/B that drives a real `claude` client against the gateway to ask whether fanning out actually beats a single agent on real coding fixtures, and whether the extra cost is worth it. **`pnpm bench`** runs the *bench-matrix* (`eval/bench-matrix.ts`), a standard agentic-coding harness run across many frites configs and raw-model baselines on the same tasks, tabling accuracy, cost, and latency so you can compare frites to normal models. Both are **metered** (every run fans out to live child CLIs), so smoke-test the wiring first. The full setup, Docker sandbox, invocations, and result-reading guidance live in the canonical runbook at [../../eval/README.md](https://github.com/whatl3y/frites/blob/main/eval/README.md).


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