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Optimize any AI agent’s skills, tools/MCP, and prompts against your own evals.

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cap-evolve

Added 1 Oct 2026

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Overview

cap-evolve is a Python-based observability tool that optimizes an AI agent's skills, tools/MCP, and prompts against user-defined evals. It uses evaluation results to guide adjustments to agent components.

Best for

Best for
Developers building custom AI agents who want to optimize components against their own evaluation suites.

Use cases

  • Tune agent prompts against custom evals
  • Optimize tool and MCP selections for specific tasks
  • Iterate on agent skills using evaluation feedback

Notes

65 stars on GitHub. Last updated 2026-10-01. Licensed Apache-2.0.

Pros

  • Uses your own evals, so optimization aligns with your criteria
  • Covers skills, tools/MCP, and prompts in one tool
  • Open source and community maintained

Cons

  • Small community with 65 stars suggests limited adoption
  • Requires existing evals to function
  • Python only, which may not fit non-Python stacks
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