Trajectory Judging

Use this skill when the decisive evidence lives in the process: plans, tool calls, intermediate artifacts, failure handling, gathered evidence, or side effects.

Read references/trajectory-techniques.md when you need the benchmark rationale for process-aware judging, trajectory rubrics, verifier-backed evidence gathering, and skepticism toward narrated reasoning.

When to use this skill

• Agent-run evaluation where trajectories, tool traces, or intermediate artifacts matter.
• Web, code, RAG, or tool-use comparisons where process reliability is part of the verdict.
• Candidate comparisons where runtime failures, evidence-gathering quality, or side effects should influence the score.

Do not use this skill alone for clean outcome-only response comparison. In those cases, switch to an outcome-focused judging contract instead.

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