{
  "id": 8963125,
  "title": "Build a Reproducible AI Agent Evaluation Lab with Docker Compose",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/build-a-reproducible-ai-agent-evaluation-lab-with-docker-compose",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-21T16:51:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/raju_dandigam/build-a-reproducible-ai-agent-evaluation-lab-with-docker-compose-2ejm"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "An agent evaluation fails in CI but passes locally. Before blaming the model, ask whether both runs saw the same tool responses, database state, clock, configuration, and dependency versions. Containers cannot make an external model deterministic. They can remove a large amount of accidental variability around it. I use Docker Compose as an evaluation lab: a small, versioned environment that can…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}