Agentic AI Reference Architecture

Observability & Evaluation · Data artifact

Environment Snapshot

Data artifactObservability & EvaluationObservability & Evaluationarc:EnvironmentSnapshot

A versioned, fixed capture of an evaluation environment's state, data sources and dependencies, such as a date-restricted corpus, used to reproduce benchmark conditions.

Responsibility. Freezes environment state so evaluation results remain comparable over time.

Also known as: Date-restricted literature corpus, Environment baseline state

is read byconfiguresState Outcome Scorer: is read byState Outcome ScorerBenchmark Environment: configuresBenchmark Environment
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Relationships

configures structural

is read by dependency

Classification

Technologies
AstaBench
Risks mitigated
Non-reproducible tool results (e.g., changing web search results)Ground truth invalidated by evolving knowledge

Sources

  1. Ch3.2: T. Nguyen, "Compare Agent Performance Across Tasks and Datasets," in Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam, 1st ed. 2026, ch. 3.2. ISBN: 9798244538229.