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Inspect

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UK AISI’s open framework for evaluating language model agents.

Inspect is an open-source eval framework from the UK AI Security Institute (formerly AISI). It is built for rigorous agent and model evaluations, including sandboxed tasks. It is closer to science than to a PR bot.

Model independence
Multi-model
Deployment
Self-hosted
Open source
Yes
License
MIT
Pricing model
Free
Added / updated
19 Aug 2026 / 19 Aug 2026

inspect.aisi.org.uk · Docs · Source

Editorial take

Inspect is what you use when the factory must survive an audit, not a demo. Heavier than Promptfoo. Listed because “CI for agents” sometimes means national-lab-grade evals. Not a merge commenter.

Strengths

  • Serious, public eval framework with sandbox-aware tasks.
  • MIT, model-agnostic.
  • Designed for agents, not only chat prompts.

Limitations

  • Steeper than product eval tools.
  • Not a GitHub app.
  • You will write tasks. That is the work.

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