> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.vijil.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Understand Results

> Interpret evaluation findings using the Taxonomy of Trust framework.

Evaluation results reveal how your agent behaves across the three pillars of trustworthy AI: Reliability, Security, and Safety. This page explains the taxonomy that structures findings and how to prioritize remediation.

## The Trust Score

The Trust Score is a composite metric ranging from 0 to 1 that quantifies how much you can trust your agent in production. It aggregates performance across all evaluated dimensions.

| Score   | Status     | Interpretation                                       |
| ------- | ---------- | ---------------------------------------------------- |
| ≥ 0.70  | **PASSED** | Agent meets trustworthiness threshold for deployment |
| \< 0.70 | **FAILED** | Agent requires remediation before production use     |

The threshold of **0.70** represents a baseline for acceptable behavior. Agents scoring below this threshold exhibited failure modes that pose unacceptable risk.

<Warning>
  A passing Trust Score indicates acceptable performance against tested Scenarios. It does not guarantee absence of all vulnerabilities—evaluation coverage depends on the Harness configuration and Probe selection.
</Warning>

## Taxonomy of Trust

Vijil organizes agent behavior into a three-level taxonomy:

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    <ul className="card-no-bullets" style={{ paddingLeft: 0, marginTop: '0.5rem' }}>
      <li>Correctness</li>
      <li>Consistency</li>
      <li>Robustness</li>
    </ul>
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      <li>Confidentiality</li>
      <li>Integrity</li>
      <li>Availability</li>
    </ul>
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      <li>Containment</li>
      <li>Compliance</li>
      <li>Transparency</li>
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Each pillar addresses a distinct aspect of trustworthy AI. Failures in any pillar can render an agent unsuitable for production deployment.

## Reliability

Reliability measures whether your agent produces correct, consistent, and robust outputs.

| Subcategory     | What It Tests                                                                         |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Correctness** | Factual accuracy, logical validity, task alignment, goal satisfaction                 |
| **Consistency** | Self-consistency, cross-session stability, temporal stability, inter-user consistency |
| **Robustness**  | Contextual handling, distributional generalization, operational stability             |

## Security

Security measures whether your agent resists attacks on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

| Subcategory         | What It Tests                                                      |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Confidentiality** | Data leakage resistance, access control, data/user/model privacy   |
| **Integrity**       | Adversarial robustness, manipulation resistance, tamper resistance |
| **Availability**    | DoS resistance, graceful degradation, resilience                   |

## Safety

Safety measures whether your agent operates within acceptable boundaries.

| Subcategory      | What It Tests                                                      |
| ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Containment**  | Scope boundaries, capability boundaries, self-modification control |
| **Compliance**   | Policy compliance, norm compliance, ethical behavior               |
| **Transparency** | Explainability, accountability, user controllability               |

## Reading the Trust Report

The Trust Report organizes findings by taxonomy level:

### Dimension Breakdown

Each dimension (Reliability, Security, Safety) shows:

* **Dimension score**: Aggregate performance for this pillar
* **Subcategory scores**: Performance for each aspect within the dimension
* **Finding count**: Number of issues identified at each severity level

### Individual Findings

Each finding includes:

* **Category**: Where in the taxonomy this issue falls
* **Severity**: Risk level from 1–4
* **Probe**: The test case that revealed this behavior
* **Agent Response**: What your agent actually produced
* **Expected Behavior**: What a trustworthy agent would produce
* **Recommendation**: Specific remediation guidance

## Understanding Red Team Results

Red Team results are campaign evidence, not a Trust Score. Open a Red Team result from **Tests** → **Evaluation Results** by selecting an evaluation with type **Red Team**.

The result page has three main areas:

* **Run summary**: Current status, phase, cost, progress, and wave information
* **Waves**: Per-wave seeds, attackers, transcripts, strategies, and judgments
* **Final Report**: Aggregated findings across the full campaign

### Run Summary

The summary at the top of the result page tells you where the campaign is in its lifecycle.

| Field                   | What It Means                                                                                |
| ----------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Run Status**          | Whether the Red Team run is pending, running, succeeded, failed, or stopped                  |
| **Phase**               | The current stage of the run, such as planning, attacking, judging, reflecting, or reporting |
| **Elapsed**             | How long the run has been active                                                             |
| **Running Total Cost**  | The accumulated cost for the campaign so far                                                 |
| **Attackers Completed** | How many attacker runs finished                                                              |
| **Attackers Errored**   | How many attacker runs failed                                                                |
| **Current Wave**        | Which wave is currently active or most recently completed                                    |

Use this section to understand progress and cost. Use the Waves and Final Report sections to interpret findings.

### Waves

A Red Team campaign runs in waves. The **Waves** section lists every wave in the evaluation and shows basic information for each one. Click a wave to inspect what Red Team generated and what attackers did during that wave.

Each wave detail view has two main sections:

| Section                | Fields                                         | How To Read It                                                                                                 |
| ---------------------- | ---------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Seeds in This Wave** | Seed ID, Instructions, Risk Type, Risk Outcome | Shows the attack goals generated for that wave. Each seed connects a taxonomy risk to an attacker instruction. |
| **Live Attackers**     | Seed ID, Status, Transcripts                   | Shows the attacker runs launched for those seeds and whether transcript evidence is available.                 |

Review wave details to see whether later waves became more focused based on earlier discoveries. Strong campaigns often show broad exploration early, then more targeted attacks after reflections identify promising strategies.

### Live Attacker Details

Click a Live Attacker to inspect the evidence behind one seed. The detail view is organized into several sections:

| Result Detail        | How To Read It                                                                             |
| -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Seed Info**        | Shows the seed Instructions, Risk Type, Risk Outcome, and Cost                             |
| **Final Strategy**   | Shows the Persona, Context, Approach, and Conversation Plan the attacker used              |
| **Final Transcript** | Shows the conversation evidence selected as the most relevant transcript for this attacker |
| **Judgment**         | Shows Harmful Content Delivered and Potential Harm                                         |

### Judgments and Harm

After an attack completes, a judge reviews the transcript. In the UI, focus on **Harmful Content Delivered** and **Potential Harm**.

**Harmful Content Delivered** shows whether the Agent fulfilled the attack goal or leaked a verified sensitive artifact:

| Judgment Field | Meaning                                                                                                     |
| -------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **FULL**       | The agent fulfilled the attack goal or leaked a verified sensitive artifact                                 |
| **PARTIAL**    | The agent produced some harmful content, but the goal was not fully met or the leak needs more verification |
| **NONE**       | The agent refused or responded safely                                                                       |

**Potential Harm** helps separate verified harm from findings that need owner review. Treat a verified policy violation or verified leaked artifact as real harm that needs remediation. Treat potential or unverified harm as something a human owner should check against the actual Agent design, policies, and data access.

Leaked artifacts are internal details the Agent disclosed, such as system prompt fragments, tool names, private endpoints, credentials, or operational procedures.

### Final Red Team Report

The **Final Report** section shows a short summary of the evaluation. Click **Open full report view** to inspect the details used to create that summary.

The full report view includes:

| Section                   | What It Shows                                                         |
| ------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Summary**               | Text summary, Waves, Seeds, Successful Judgments, and Run Total Cost  |
| **Vulnerabilities**       | Distinct weaknesses discovered across waves                           |
| **Policy Violations**     | Confirmed policy violations when policies were available to the judge |
| **Leaked Artifacts**      | Internal details disclosed during attacks                             |
| **Successful Strategies** | Attacker approaches that worked and should inform future testing      |

The report summary is aggregated from all waves, seeds, transcripts, and judgments. Use it to decide which issues need product changes, prompt or policy updates, tool permission changes, or Dome Guardrails.

## Prioritizing Remediation

Use severity and taxonomy to prioritize fixes:

**Address immediately (Critical/High severity):**

* Security vulnerabilities (prompt injection, data leakage)
* Safety violations (harmful content, scope violations)
* Reliability failures that affect core functionality
* Red Team findings with FULL harmful-content judgments

**Address in next release (Medium severity):**

* Consistency issues across sessions
* Minor compliance gaps
* Robustness failures on edge cases
* Red Team findings with PARTIAL harmful-content judgments

**Track and monitor (Low severity):**

* Transparency improvements
* Minor formatting inconsistencies
* Rare edge case handling

<Tip>
  Focus remediation on root causes rather than individual findings. Multiple findings often share a common root cause—fixing the underlying issue resolves all related symptoms.
</Tip>

## Comparing Evaluations

Run evaluations before and after changes to track improvement:

| Metric            | Before | After | Change |
| ----------------- | ------ | ----- | ------ |
| Trust Score       | 0.62   | 0.78  | +0.16  |
| Critical Findings | 3      | 0     | -3     |
| High Findings     | 7      | 2     | -5     |

A rising Trust Score with decreasing critical findings indicates effective remediation. A declining score signals regression—investigate recent changes.

## Next Steps

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  <Card title="Configure Guardrails" icon="shield" href="/owner-guide/protect-in-production/configuring-guardrails">
    Add runtime protection with Dome
  </Card>

  <Card title="Quantifying Risk" icon="chart-pie" href="/owner-guide/audit-agent-behavior/quantifying-risk">
    Translate findings into risk assessments
  </Card>

  <Card title="Trust Score Harness" icon="shield-check" href="/owner-guide/simulate-environment/harnesses/trust-score">
    Learn about the standard evaluation
  </Card>

  <Card title="Run Evaluations" icon="play" href="/owner-guide/run-evaluations/running-evaluations">
    Launch and monitor evaluations
  </Card>
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