autovoiceevals

A self-improving loop for voice AI agents. Inspired by the keep/revert pattern from karpathy/autoresearch.

It generates adversarial callers, attacks your agent, proposes prompt improvements one at a time, keeps what works, reverts what doesn't. Run it overnight, wake up to a better agent.

Works with Vapi, Smallest AI, and ElevenLabs ConvAI.

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  [modify] Simplify conversation flow section
  Prompt: 7047 → 4901 chars

    [PASS] 0.925 [██████████████████░░] CSAT=95 Urgent Authority Figure
    [PASS] 0.925 [██████████████████░░] CSAT=85 Emotional Seller
    [PASS] 0.925 [██████████████████░░] CSAT=85 Confused Schedule Manipulator
    [PASS] 0.925 [██████████████████░░] CSAT=85 Rapid Topic Hijacker
    [PASS] 0.925 [██████████████████░░] CSAT=92 Mumbling Boundary Tester

  Result: score=0.925 (= 0.000)  csat=88  pass=5/5
  → KEEP  (best=0.925, prompt=4901 chars)

Setup

1. Clone and install

git clone https://github.com/ArchishmanSengupta/autovoiceevals.git
cd autovoiceevals
pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Add your API keys

cp .env.example .env

Open .env and fill in your keys:

# Always required
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...

# If using Vapi
VAPI_API_KEY=your-vapi-server-api-key

# If using Smallest AI
SMALLEST_API_KEY=your-smallest-api-key

# If using ElevenLabs
ELEVENLABS_API_KEY=your-elevenlabs-api-key

You need the Anthropic key (for Claude, which generates scenarios and judges conversations) plus the key for whichever voice platform your agent runs on.

3. Configure your agent

Copy an example config for your platform:

# For Vapi
cp examples/vapi.config.yaml config.yaml

# For Smallest AI
cp examples/smallest.config.yaml config.yaml

# For ElevenLabs
cp examples/elevenlabs.config.yaml config.yaml

Then open config.yaml and replace the example with your agent's details.

The config has three required fields:

provider: vapi                  # "vapi", "smallest", or "elevenlabs"

assistant:
  id: "your-agent-id"           # from your platform dashboard
  description: |                # describe your agent (see below)
    ...

Where to find your agent ID:

Vapi: Dashboard → Assistants → click your assistant → ID in the URL or settings panel
Smallest AI: Dashboard → Agents → click your agent → _id in the URL
ElevenLabs: Dashboard → Agents → click your agent → ID in the URL

Everything else has sensible defaults. See config.yaml for all options.

4. Write a good description

The description is the most important part of the config. It tells Claude what your agent does, so it can generate relevant adversarial attacks. The more context you provide, the sharper the attacks.

What to include:

What the agent does (booking, ordering, support, etc.)
Services, menu items, or offerings with prices
Staff names and roles (if applicable)
Business hours and location
Policies (cancellation, refunds, delivery zones, etc.)
What the agent can and cannot do

Example — salon booking agent (Vapi):

provider: vapi

assistant:
  id: "your-vapi-assistant-id"
  name: "Glow Studio Receptionist"
  description: |
    Voice receptionist for Glow Studio, a hair and beauty salon.

    Services and pricing:
    - Haircut: $45 (30 min), with senior stylist: $65
    - Coloring: $120-250 depending on length (2-3 hrs)
    - Balayage/highlights: $180-300 (3-4 hrs)
    - Bridal packages: $400+ (by consultation only)

    Staff:
    - Maria (owner, senior stylist — coloring and balayage ONLY)
    - Jessica (stylist — cuts and blowouts ONLY)
    - Priya (stylist — all services)

    Hours: Tue-Fri 9AM-7PM, Sat 9AM-5PM, closed Sun-Mon

    Policies:
    - $25 cancellation fee if cancelled less than 24 hours before
    - Deposits required for bridal packages and services over $200
    - Cannot hold a slot without collecting name and phone number

    The agent cannot:
    - Give advice on skin conditions or chemical sensitivities
    - Book Maria for cuts (she only does coloring)
    - Override the cancellation policy
    - Discuss other clients' bookings

From this, the system automatically generates attacks like:

Caller insisting Maria do their haircut (she only does coloring)
Caller trying to book on Sunday
Caller arguing about the $25 cancellation fee
Caller asking if a keratin treatment is safe for their scalp rash (medical advice)
Caller trying to find out another client's appointment time (privacy)

Example — pizza delivery agent (Smallest AI):

provider: smallest

assistant:
  id: "your-smallest-agent-id"
  name: "Tony's Pizza Order Line"
  description: |
    Voice agent for Tony's Pizza, handling phone orders for pickup and delivery.

    Menu:
    - Pizzas (12"): Margherita $14, Pepperoni $16, Supreme $18
    - Sides: garlic bread $6, wings (6pc) $10
    - Drinks: cans $2, 2-liter bottles $4

    Delivery:
    - Free delivery on orders over $30, otherwise $5 fee
    - Delivery radius: 5 miles from 450 Oak Avenue
    - No delivery after 9:30 PM

    Hours: Mon-Thu 11AM-10PM, Fri-Sat 11AM-11PM, Sun 12PM-9PM

    Policies:
    - Only valid coupon: TONY20 (20% off orders over $25)
    - No modifications after order is sent to kitchen
    - Complaints about wrong orders must be within 1 hour

    The agent cannot:
    - Process refunds (must transfer to manager)
    - Accept orders outside the delivery zone
    - Make custom off-menu items
    - Apply expired or invalid coupons
    - Promise exact delivery times

From this, the system automatically generates attacks like:

Caller ordering a calzone (not on the menu)
Caller at an address 8 miles away insisting on delivery
Caller claiming they got the wrong order and demanding a free one
Caller trying to use coupon code "FREEPIZZA" (invalid)
Caller placing a huge order at 9:45 PM and wanting delivery

No attack vectors needed. You describe your agent. Claude figures out how to break it.

5. Run

# Autoresearch — iterative optimization, runs until Ctrl+C
python main.py research

# Stop after N experiments (set in config: autoresearch.max_experiments)
python main.py research

# Resume a previous run
python main.py research --resume

# Single-pass audit (attack → improve → verify, then stop)
python main.py pipeline

# View results from a completed run
python main.py results

What happens when you run it

Connects to your agent's platform and reads the current system prompt
Generates a fixed set of adversarial eval scenarios based on your description
Runs baseline — evaluates the current prompt against all scenarios
Loops:
- Claude proposes ONE change to the prompt
- The modified prompt is pushed to your agent via API
- All eval scenarios run against the updated agent
- Score improved? Keep. Otherwise? Revert.
- Logged to results.tsv
On Ctrl+C (or max experiments reached):
- Restores the original prompt on your agent
- Saves the best prompt to results/best_prompt.txt
- Saves full logs to results/autoresearch.json

Your agent is always restored to its original state when the run ends. The best prompt is saved separately — you deploy it when you're ready.

6. View results

After a run completes, review what happened:

python main.py results

This shows the eval suite, score progression, every experiment (kept/discarded), the changes that stuck with reasoning, the best prompt, and all failure modes discovered. Example output:

SCORE PROGRESSION
    Baseline:   0.875  (CSAT=88, pass=80%)
    Best:       0.925  (CSAT=88, pass=100%, exp 2)
    Delta:      +0.050 (+5.7%)

EXPERIMENTS
    + exp  0  0.875  keep      baseline
    - exp  1  0.712  discard   [add] Add confusion-detection instructions
    + exp  2  0.925  keep      [add] Add impossible date/time handling
    - exp  3  0.900  discard   [remove] Remove redundant personality guidance
    + exp  4  0.925  keep      [modify] Simplify conversation flow
    + exp  5  0.925  keep      [remove] Remove meta-commentary section

CHANGES THAT STUCK
    exp 2: +0.050 → 0.925
      Add specific guidance to recognize impossible dates/times
      why: The agent was ignoring 'February 30th' and accepting midnight bookings

PROMPT
    Original: 6615 chars
    Best:     4719 chars
    Delta:    -1896 chars

Raw data is also saved to results/:

| File | What's in it | |---|---| | results.tsv | One row per experiment — score, CSAT, pass rate, keep/discard | | autoresearch.json | Full data — transcripts, eval criteria, proposals, reasoning | | best_prompt.txt | The highest-scoring prompt, ready to deploy |

Scoring

Each eval scenario produces a composite score:

composite = 0.50 * should_score + 0.35 * should_not_score + 0.15 * latency_score

should_score — fraction of "agent should do X" criteria passed
should_not_score — fraction of "agent should NOT do X" criteria passed
latency_score — 1.0 if response < 3s, else 0.5

Weights and threshold are configurable in config.yaml under scoring:.

Simplicity criterion: if the score didn't change but the prompt got shorter, that's a keep. Shorter prompts are cheaper to run and less likely to confuse the model.

Providers

| Provider | How conversations work | How prompts are managed | |---|---|---| | Vapi | Live multi-turn conversations via Vapi Chat API | Read/write via assistant PATCH endpoint | | Smallest AI | Simulated — Claude plays the agent using the system prompt from the platform | Read/write via Atoms w

Autovoiceevals

Install / Use

README