calibrate-resources

Calibrate: resources and orientation

Calibrate is an evaluation platform for AI agents. You connect an agent, define test cases, run them, and — its signature move — calibrate the LLM judges against human labels so the automated scores are trustworthy. These skills drive the calibrate CLI against the public API.

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Setup

brew install dalmia/tap/calibrate    # install the CLI
calibrate login                      # authenticate (API key from workspace settings)
calibrate agents list                # confirm auth with a real call

Confirm the key works with a real read, not `whoami`. `calibrate whoami` prints the resolved server URL and the configured key's source — useful for checking which host and key are in play — but it never calls the server, so it can't tell you the key is actually valid. For that, use a real read like `calibrate agents list`: a `401` there means not signed in, or a key for the wrong deployment (see Which Calibrate* below).

API key: Workspace settings → API keys (https://calibrate.artpark.ai/workspace-settings?tab=api-keys).

Which Calibrate — hosted or self-hosted

A key only validates against the deployment it was created in: a key from a self-hosted Calibrate will 401 against the hosted service, and vice versa. This is the most common "my API key doesn't work" cause. Before `calibrate login`, confirm which deployment the user is on (see `voice.md` for how to ask):

Two different URLs are in play — keep them apart:

• Web address (frontend) — what the user opens in a browser to sign in and

create their key, e.g. https://calibrate.artpark.ai.

• API host (backend) — what the CLI talks to, and the only thing

--server-url accepts, e.g. https://api.calibrate.artpark.ai.

They are not the same host, and there is no fixed rule mapping one to the other — hosted uses an api. prefix, but a self-hosted app at calibrate.example.org might call calibrate-backend.example.org. So never pass the web address to `--server-url` and never guess the API host from the web address by pattern.

• Hosted at https://calibrate.artpark.ai — the CLI already defaults to the

hosted API host, so plain calibrate login works; nothing extra to do.

• Self-hosted — the user's team runs its own Calibrate. Point the CLI at

their API host once with configure (it persists to ~/.config/calibrate/config.yaml), then have them log in — the key is then validated against, and every later command reaches, their backend with no repeated flags:

  calibrate configure --no-interactive --server-url https://<their-calibrate-api-host>
  calibrate login        # then have the user log in / paste their key
  calibrate agents list  # verify: empty list (200) = success; 401 = key not valid there

Order matters: `configure` the host before `login`.* Do the configure step yourself once you've found the host (it's just the URL, not a secret); the key is the user's to enter. Resolution is flag > env > config, so a one-off --server-url … or CALIBRATE_SERVER_URL still overrides per call, and calibrate whoami shows the resolved URL and where it came from — use it to confirm the host landed.

Finding the API host is your job, not the user's — do it silently. Ask them only for the web address they open (that is all a non-technical user reliably knows), tell them you'll take it from there, then work it out without narrating. Don't hand-write the search each time — run the helper:

  scripts/find-backend.sh <web-address>   # best guess on stdout, alternates on stderr
  host=$(scripts/find-backend.sh <web-address>)   # capture it directly

It fetches the app and its JS (where the backend host is compiled in — a Next.js app proxies /api/* same-origin, so it isn't visible in the top-level network tab) and prints the likely API host, preferring one on the front end's own parent domain. Take the top hit; if it looks wrong, the stderr list and whoever set the deployment up are your fallbacks. Do not report back that "the web address isn't the one I need" — that turns your own request into a bait-and-switch. The user hears the outcome ("logged you in against your deployment"), never the front-end/back-end gap. If they happen to know the API/backend URL, take it directly. Once configure has set the host, the key is stored by login and the host by config, so plain commands (no flag) reach their deployment from then on.

See `../../references/agent-mode.md` for output formats and `../../references/config-shapes.md` for payload shapes. Keep what you say to the user plain — see `../../references/voice.md`.

The five primitives

Typical flow

1. /connect-agent — register + verify the agent.
2. /build-test-suite (or /import-dataset) — author test cases.
3. /design-evaluator — if any test judges response quality.
4. /run-tests — run and read pass/fail.
5. /calibrate-evaluator — prove the judge agrees with humans before trusting it.
6. /benchmark-models — compare models once the harness is trustworthy.
7. /iterate-evaluator — tune the judge and reset its live version.

/onboard runs this whole flow interactively for a first-time user.

Not in the public API

Calibrate's public API is single-turn tests, evaluators, and annotation-based judge calibration. There is no persona/simulation, trace, dashboard, or report resource — don't offer skills for those here.