docs: judge criteria, script assertions and evaluators on one scenario

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What

Docs for combining judge criteria, script assertions and LangWatch evaluators on one scenario, following #966 and #971.

Pages

• docs/docs/pages/testing-guides/judge-assertions-and-evaluators.mdx (new). Answers: "I have judge criteria; when do I add a script assertion, when an evaluator, and how do the three combine on one scenario?" Defines each check, a table of what each reads, when it decides and whether it gates the run, the worked scenario from the runnable examples in Python and TypeScript (judge criteria, a script assertion on the run_sql call, langevals/exact_match inferred by name and required, langevals/llm_boolean mapped to the tool call with a settings.prompt, score-only), and "How the run decides": assertions first, then the judge verdict, then the required evaluators, with what result.success, result.reasoning and result.evaluations carry and what skipped and error mean. Added to the sidebar next to Tool calling.
• docs/docs/pages/advanced/evaluators.mdx. "Results in LangWatch" gains the run drawer screenshot of a code-run scenario with the evaluator rows in passed, failed, skipped and error states, and an Also check: link to the new guide.
• docs/docs/pages/basics/concepts.mdx. "3. Evaluation" lists evaluators as the third check next to the judge and script assertions, with a link.
• docs/docs/pages/basics/judge-agent.mdx. Next Steps links the new guide.
• docs/docs/pages/testing-guides/tool-calling.mdx. New section "Grade a tool call with an evaluator" with the mapped evaluator snippet in both languages and a link to the guide.
• docs/docs/pages/testing-guides/sql-agent.mdx. Scenario 2 gets an Also check: pointing at ragas/sql_query_equivalence on the evaluators page.

Screenshots

docs/docs/public/images/evaluators/run-drawer-evaluators-python.png, the Python run drawer from #966. The "Results in LangWatch" section has no language tabs, so only the Python image is used.

Verification

pnpm lint and pnpm build in docs/ pass. The built site has the new page at /testing-guides/judge-assertions-and-evaluators, the sidebar entry on every page, and the image at /images/evaluators/run-drawer-evaluators-python.png. Every API name and behaviour was checked against python/scenario/evaluators.py, python/scenario/_evaluators/, javascript/src/evaluators/, the executors and specs/scenario-evaluators.feature.

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Walkthrough

The pull request adds a guide for judge criteria, script assertions, and evaluators. It adds Python and TypeScript examples, documents execution and result statuses, updates evaluator guidance, and links the new guide from related pages and navigation.

Changes

Evaluator documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Evaluation guide and execution semantics docs/docs/pages/testing-guides/judge-assertions-and-evaluators.mdx	The new guide defines the three check types, provides Python and TypeScript examples, and documents execution order, evaluator inputs, statuses, and failure handling.
Scenario-specific evaluator examples docs/docs/pages/basics/concepts.mdx, docs/docs/pages/advanced/evaluators.mdx, docs/docs/pages/testing-guides/sql-agent.mdx, docs/docs/pages/testing-guides/tool-calling.mdx	Existing documentation adds evaluator examples, SQL equivalence guidance, tool-call grading guidance, evaluator result details, and links to the new guide.
Guide navigation links docs/docs/pages/basics/judge-agent.mdx, docs/vocs.config.tsx	The judge-agent guide and documentation sidebar link to the new evaluation guide.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main documentation change: explaining how judge criteria, script assertions, and evaluators work together on one scenario.
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• Scope: Adds a new testing guide (judge-assertions-and-evaluators.mdx), updates advanced/evaluators.mdx, basics/concepts.mdx, basics/judge-agent.mdx, testing-guides/tool-calling.mdx, testing-guides/sql-agent.mdx, adds an evaluator run-drawer image, and updates docs sidebar (vocs.config.tsx).
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Human Review Brief

Caution

This documents judge criteria, script assertions and evaluators as one scenario, and the SDK ships twice, in Python and TypeScript.

Docs that describe one surface across two implementations are correct only where the two agree. Where they have drifted, one language's users are being told something false.

Mode	Fast Skim.
Issue	None linked.
State	+311 / -1 across 8 files. Ready. Note scenario main CI is currently red, so a green check here is not a statement about main.
Where to look	Whether every documented capability exists in both SDKs.

What you are looking at

scenario runs simulated conversations against an agent. Three things can decide whether a run passed: a judge applying criteria in natural language, a script assertion checking something deterministically, and an evaluator scoring the result. Explaining all three on one scenario is the right teaching move, because the question a user actually has is which to reach for.

The complication is that Python and TypeScript are separate implementations that have to agree at the artifact level, and they have drifted before: the TypeScript red-team report skips the LLM severity analysis Python does at save time, deferring it to the dashboard. So a documented capability can be real in one and absent in the other.

Worth knowing while reviewing: #7930 documents the same feature area from the platform side, and langwatch#7867 is open and changing evaluators on scenario runs.

What to check

Parity. For each capability the page describes, confirm it exists in both SDKs with the same name and shape. Where it does not, the page should say which language it applies to rather than implying both.

Runnable examples. Snippets in these docs are copied and run. mint broken-links --check-snippets covers some of that; whether the code actually executes against the current SDK version is not something CI answers.

Version skew. If any of this describes an unreleased capability, note the version, because PyPI and npm publish independently and have been out of step before.

Note

Good consolidation. The check is Python and TypeScript parity for everything it claims.