{"data":{"id":21,"backendId":"220e77f5-d9fb-4b0d-8af0-1182207e7097","title":"Show HN: Evalcraft – cassette-based testing for AI agents (pytest, $0/run)","summary":"Testing AI agents is painful. Every test run calls the LLM API, costs real money, takes minutes, and gives different results each time. CI? Forget about it. Evalcraft fixes this with cassette-based capture and replay — think VCR for HTTP, but for LLM calls and tool use. How it works: 1. Run your agent once with real API calls. Evalcraft records every LLM request, tool call, and response into a JSON cassette file. 2. In tests, replay from the cassette. Zero API calls, zero cost, deterministic out","analysis":"High practical value for developers struggling with AI testing costs and flakiness. It addresses a critical gap in the AI agent lifecycle by providing a deterministic CI/CD solution.","category":"technology","strategicTrack":"ai_agents","capitalRelevance":{"social":3,"cultural":4,"economic":8,"symbolic":2,"technological":9,"informational":7,"temporal":6,"psychological":5,"physical":1},"tags":["AI Agents","Testing","DevOps","LLM","Pytest","AgentOps"],"qualityScore":10,"valueScore":9,"interestScore":8,"potentialScore":9,"uniquenessScore":8,"sourceCount":1,"confidence":5,"detectedAt":"2026-03-06T12:06:49.618Z","createdAt":"2026-03-06 12:08:18"}}