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tl;dr

A Go library for testing AI apps like RAG systems and chatbots using ordinary go test cases, with both rule-based and LLM-judged checks.

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    What it does
      Evaluates AI applications
      Runs as go test
      Reports structured results
    Tech stack
      Go
      OpenAI
      Anthropic
      Gemini
    Use cases
      Test RAG quality
      Evaluate chatbots
      CI evaluation pipelines
    Audience
      Go developers
      AI application teams
    Checks
      Deterministic checks
      LLM judged metrics

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what do people make with this?

VIBE 1

Write evaluation tests for a RAG system that run alongside your normal Go test suite in CI.

VIBE 2

Check chatbot or agent responses for required phrases, length limits, or latency without needing an LLM judge.

VIBE 3

Use an LLM as a judge to score answer relevancy, faithfulness, and citation accuracy for AI generated responses.

VIBE 4

Replace a Python-based eval tool like Ragas or DeepEval with a Go-native alternative that fits an existing Go codebase.

what's the stack?

GoOpenAIAnthropicGeminixAI

how it stacks up fr

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Stars00
LanguageGoGoGo
Last pushed2022-04-20
MaintenanceDormant
Setup difficultyeasymoderatehard
Complexity3/54/54/5
Audiencedeveloperdeveloperdeveloper

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how do i run it?

Difficulty · easy time til it works · 5min

No provider needed for the basic quickstart, an API key is required only for LLM-judged metrics.

in plain english

Gaugo is a Go library for evaluating AI applications such as RAG systems (retrieval-augmented generation, meaning AI that answers questions using a knowledge base), chatbots, and agents. Its main selling point is that it fits naturally into Go's standard testing workflow: you write evaluation cases as ordinary Go tests and run them with go test, which means AI evaluations can live alongside application code and run in any CI pipeline that already runs Go tests. The framework offers two kinds of checks. Deterministic checks run without an LLM and verify things like whether a response contains a required phrase, matches a regex pattern, stays within a length limit, or responds within a latency budget. LLM judged metrics use a language model as a grader to assess qualities like context relevancy, faithfulness, meaning whether the answer sticks to the provided documents, answer relevancy, citation accuracy, and safety. You provide an adapter function that connects Gaugo to your application, and the framework calls it for each test case, collects results, and fails the test suite if any metric falls below its configured threshold. Gaugo includes 24 built-in metrics spanning RAG, safety, generation quality, structured output, instruction following, domain-specific checks, and deterministic contracts. Provider adapters are available for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, xAI, and local model services. Test cases run concurrently by default while preserving registration order in results. The README positions Gaugo as a Go-native alternative to Python-first evaluation tools such as Ragas, DeepEval, and TruLens, for teams who want evaluations to live in their Go codebase.

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Help me write my first Gaugo test case for a RAG system using go test.
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Show me how to add an LLM judge to Gaugo using the OpenAI provider adapter.
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Explain the difference between Gaugo's deterministic checks and LLM-judged metrics.
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Walk me through configuring thresholds for context relevancy and faithfulness in Gaugo.
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Help me connect my Go application to Gaugo using an adapter function.

Frequently asked questions

what is gaugo fr?

A Go library for testing AI apps like RAG systems and chatbots using ordinary go test cases, with both rule-based and LLM-judged checks.

What language is gaugo written in?

Mainly Go. The stack also includes Go, OpenAI, Anthropic.

How hard is gaugo to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is gaugo for?

Mainly developer.

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