Evals & benchmarks- 4.7K stars
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# simple-evals
**What:** OpenAI's lightweight reference evals.
**Why:** Measures how close you are to the frontier.
**Category:** Evals & benchmarks · **Stack layer:** tools
## Status
Catalog entry. Existence and repo metadata checked 2026-10-15 via the GitHub API. Install commands below are auto-extracted from the README and have NOT been executed or verified. Read the README before running anything; prefer a sandbox or venv.
## Install (unverified)
1. [any] source: README (auto-extracted); status: unverified, not executed
```bash
git clone https://github.com/openai/human-eval
```
2. [any] source: README (auto-extracted); status: unverified, not executed
```bash
pip install openai
```
3. [any] source: README (auto-extracted); status: unverified, not executed
```bash
pip install anthropic
```
## Verify
No verified check yet. Minimum: the install command exits 0 and the tool's own help/version flag runs (exact flag: see README).
## Rollback (unverified)
1. source: derived inverse of install command
```bash
rm -rf human-eval
```
2. source: derived inverse of install command
```bash
pip uninstall -y openai
```
3. source: derived inverse of install command
```bash
pip uninstall -y anthropic
```
## Links
- Repo: https://github.com/openai/simple-evals
- README: https://github.com/openai/simple-evals#readme