Live Accelerator · Cohort Starts 18 Jun

Learn to Test Agentic AI Systems Before They Break in Production

Systems ship. Demos don't.

An 8-hour live accelerator to help you evaluate LLM applications, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows for hallucinations, grounding, safety, reliability, latency, and production readiness — the testing layer most engineers are never taught.

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  • 4 live implementation-focused sessions · 2 hours each
  • 8 hours of structured training
  • Covers LLM apps, RAG systems, and agentic workflows
  • Built for working engineers and AI builders
  • Production-first, not demo-first
⚡ Cohort LiveFirst session 18 June · Closes once cohort fills · Live accelerator for working engineers

Most Builders Test If the Demo Works Once.

Production systems fail for reasons demos never expose — hallucinations, weak grounding, retrieval failures, jailbreaks, memory bugs, tool-selection mistakes, runaway costs, latency spikes, and silent drift after deployment.

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The demo answer was lucky

One prompt, one response, one happy reviewer. No evaluation set. No regression baseline. No proof the next 1,000 queries hold the same quality.

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Failures look invisible in logs

Hallucinations look like fluent answers. Stale retrieval looks like a clean response. Prompt injection looks like a normal request. Without evals, nothing surfaces.

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No release decision criteria

No pass/fail thresholds. No regression check before deploy. No drift monitoring after deploy. "Ship it" becomes "hope it holds" — until production traffic proves otherwise.

The real question is not: “Can your agent answer once?”
It's “Can you prove it is reliable across real workloads?”

Agentic AI Systems Are Not Normal Software Systems

Classical testing assumes deterministic behaviour. AI systems are probabilistic, stateful, and influenced by retrieval, memory, tools, and adversarial inputs — the whole testing stack has to be rebuilt around that reality.

✗ Classical Software Testing Assumes

Same input → same output, every time
Pass / fail is a boolean condition
Coverage measured by code paths exercised
Failures throw exceptions you can grep
Once green, the test stays green
Adversarial input is a security layer's problem

✓ Agentic AI Testing Has to Handle

Same input → different output, scored on quality bands
Groundedness, faithfulness, relevancy — on a scale
Coverage across intents, edge cases, and failure modes
Hallucinations look fluent — they don't throw
Quality drifts as data, prompts, and models change
Prompt injection and jailbreaks are part of the test plan

This accelerator teaches the testing model that actually fits agentic AI: evals over assertions, groundedness over greps, regression baselines over one-shot reviews, and a monitoring layer that survives production drift.

Five Layers That Have to Be Tested Separately

Agentic systems fail at different layers for different reasons. Testing them as one black box hides which layer is actually breaking.

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LLM Response

Quality, correctness, hallucination, relevancy

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Retrieval / RAG

Groundedness, faithfulness, precision, recall

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Agent Workflow

Tool calls, state, memory, multi-step completion

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Safety & Security

Injection, jailbreaks, toxicity, data leakage

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Performance & Drift

Latency, cost, regression, model + prompt drift

What You'll Be Able to Do

By the end of this accelerator, you'll be able to design the evaluation, safety, and monitoring layers that turn an AI prototype into a release-ready system.

Test LLM responses for quality, correctness, hallucination, and relevance.

Validate grounding and faithfulness in RAG systems — including when the retrieved context is wrong.

Build evaluation datasets and benchmark cases that catch real failure modes.

Use metrics like precision, recall, MRR, NDCG, groundedness, faithfulness, relevancy — and know when each one matters.

Test multi-turn conversations and context retention across turns.

Validate agent workflows — state transitions, memory, tool calls, and multi-step completion.

Design red-team test cases for prompt injection, jailbreaks, and data leakage.

Build automated evaluation pipelines — rule-based, model-based, and LLM-as-judge.

Connect evaluation to CI/CD and release decisions — with pass/fail thresholds.

Monitor AI quality, drift, latency, cost, and reliability in production — not just in dev.

Curriculum — Four Live Sessions, Two Hours Each

Every session is implementation-focused. Click any session for topics and the concrete outcome.

18
Jun
Session 1 · Wednesday

Foundations of Testing AI Systems + Functional Evaluation

🔴 Live2 hrs
What we cover
  • Why AI testing is different from traditional software testing
  • Testing vs evaluation vs monitoring — three distinct disciplines
  • Failure modes in LLM applications
  • Hallucination testing — detection patterns and bounds
  • Response quality evaluation — structure and rubric
  • Answer correctness vs answer relevancy
  • Grounding validation against source material
  • Edge-case testing for AI responses
  • Multi-turn conversation testing
  • Context retention across long sessions
  • Building a basic AI test matrix
  • What "production confidence" means for AI systems
Outcome: You'll be able to evaluate whether an LLM response is useful, correct, grounded, and aligned with the behaviour you actually expected — not just whether it looked good once.
02
Jul
Session 2 · Wednesday

RAG Evaluation, Grounding & Retrieval Testing

🔴 Live2 hrs
What we cover
  • Why RAG systems fail in production — and where
  • Retrieval failure vs generation failure — how to separate them
  • Chunk relevance and context quality scoring
  • Groundedness and faithfulness as first-class metrics
  • Semantic similarity — when it helps, when it lies
  • Answer correctness in retrieval-augmented flows
  • Precision and recall for RAG systems
  • MRR and NDCG — what they actually measure
  • Golden dataset creation — the discipline of good benchmarks
  • Benchmark creation for RAG systems
  • Human evaluation vs automated evaluation — when each wins
  • Evaluating the retrieved context before the final answer
  • Designing RAG evaluation datasets your team can re-run
Outcome: You'll be able to diagnose whether a RAG system is failing because of retrieval, chunking, reranking, prompting, or generation — and prove it with numbers.
16
Jul
Session 3 · Wednesday

Agent Workflow Testing, Memory Validation & AI Security Testing

🔴 Live2 hrs
What we cover
  • Why agent testing is different from LLM response testing
  • Agent workflow validation — end-to-end task completion
  • Tool call correctness — the right tool, the right arguments
  • Tool selection testing under ambiguous intent
  • State transition testing across multi-step flows
  • Memory validation in AI agents — short-term and persistent
  • Multi-step task completion testing
  • Failure handling, retries, and fallback behaviour
  • Human-in-the-loop validation patterns
  • Prompt injection attacks — classes and defences
  • Jailbreak testing across known vectors
  • Prompt manipulation risks — indirect injection
  • Toxicity and safety evaluation
  • Data leakage validation — what the system reveals it shouldn't
  • Adversarial input testing — coverage strategy
  • Red-team test case design
Outcome: You'll be able to test an agentic workflow as a system — including tool usage, memory, state, safety, and failure behaviour — not just the final response.
30
Jul
Session 4 · Wednesday

Evaluation Pipelines, Performance Testing, Monitoring & Drift

🔴 Live2 hrs
What we cover
  • Building automated evaluation pipelines from scratch
  • LLM-as-judge evaluation — strengths, limits, calibration
  • Rule-based checks vs model-based checks
  • Pass / fail thresholds for AI systems
  • Evaluation reports and dashboards your team will actually read
  • CI/CD integration for AI evaluation
  • Latency and performance testing for LLM endpoints
  • Cost per request and token usage testing
  • Load testing AI endpoints under realistic concurrency
  • Rate limiting validation
  • Queue depth and worker reliability
  • Drift problems in production AI systems
  • Monitoring model drift
  • Monitoring prompt drift — the silent killer
  • Monitoring retrieval drift
  • Automated reporting and production dashboards
  • When to use which evaluation tool in enterprise systems
Outcome: You'll be able to design an evaluation and monitoring layer that supports production release decisions and ongoing reliability — not just demo-day green checks.

Who This Is Built For

Selective by design. This accelerator works best when you're already building — and want to learn how to prove your systems are ready to ship.

check_circleBuilt for you if

  • You're an engineer building LLM applications
  • You're a GenAI engineer working on RAG or agents
  • You're a backend or DevOps engineer moving into AI systems
  • You're an ML or MLOps professional responsible for evaluation and deployment
  • You're learning Agentic AI and want production-level understanding
  • You're preparing for senior AI / GenAI interviews where evaluation, safety, and production readiness matter

cancelNot the right fit if

  • You're an absolute beginner who hasn't built any AI application yet
  • You're looking only for prompt tricks
  • You expect a no-code overview of AI testing
  • You only want framework-level tutorials, not testing strategy
  • You're not ready to think deeply about failure modes
  • You're looking for theory-only content without implementation rigour

What Makes This Different

Most AI evaluation content stops at "try this eval tool." This accelerator builds the engineering judgment that holds up across tools, frameworks, and production reality.

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Not another prompt engineering course

Prompts are one input variable, not the system. We work the layer above — the evaluation, safety, and monitoring discipline that survives prompt changes.

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Not tied to a single eval tool

We cover the patterns — LLM-as-judge, rule-based checks, golden datasets, regression baselines, drift monitors — so the thinking transfers to whichever tool your team uses.

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Not limited to one framework

LangChain, LangGraph, custom orchestrators — the testing model is the same. You learn how to test the system, not the SDK.

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Covers the full stack

LLM apps, RAG, agents, safety, performance, monitoring — the four sessions stitch into one production-readiness model, not isolated topics.

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Engineering judgment first

Failure modes, pass / fail thresholds, release decisions, drift response — the calls that distinguish someone trusted with production from someone trusted with a notebook.

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Interview & review ready

Helps you explain systems clearly in interviews and engineering discussions — with the right vocabulary for groundedness, drift, release readiness, and safety.

Implementation Assets Included

Concrete templates and checklists you carry back into your own stack — designed to be re-used across projects, not just inside the cohort.

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AI Testing Checklist

End-to-end checklist across LLM, RAG, agents, safety, and performance.

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RAG Evaluation Dataset Template

Golden-dataset structure — queries, ground-truth contexts, expected answers.

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Agent Workflow Test Matrix

Coverage map for tool calls, state, memory, and multi-step completion.

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Red-Team Prompt Injection Test Cases

Starter library of injection, jailbreak, and data-leakage probes.

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Evaluation Pipeline Blueprint

Reference architecture for automated evaluation in CI/CD.

Production Readiness Checklist

Pre-release pass/fail criteria across reliability, safety, and observability.

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Monitoring & Drift Checklist

Post-release coverage — model, prompt, retrieval, and cost drift.

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AI Evaluation Scorecard

Template scorecard for groundedness, faithfulness, relevance, and safety.

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Interview & Review Explanation Templates

Phrasings for evaluation, drift, and release decisions in real conversations.

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Instructor

Nachiketh Murthy

Founder, Manifold AI Learning

Nachiketh has worked with AI / ML engineers, backend and DevOps practitioners, and senior learners across India and internationally — helping them move from tutorials to systems, from prototypes to production. This accelerator distils the testing discipline used on real Agentic AI workloads into a structured 8-hour live program.

Reserve Your Cohort Seat

Live cohort starts 18 June. Seats are limited so the sessions stay implementation-focused.

⚡ Live Cohort · 4 Sessions · 8 Hours
Testing Agentic AI Systems
Evals, Safety, Reliability & Production Readiness
📅 Live Session Dates
Session 1: 18 Jun  ·  Session 2: 2 Jul  ·  Session 3: 16 Jul  ·  Session 4: 30 Jul
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India price + GST · one-time, live cohort accessInternational · one-time, live cohort access
  • 4 live implementation-focused sessions · 2 hours each
  • 8 hours of structured live training with Nachiketh
  • Full curriculum across LLM apps, RAG, agents, safety, performance, monitoring
  • All 9 implementation assets — checklists, templates, blueprints, scorecards
  • Cohort access details & recording policy shared at enrolment
  • Premium engineer community access (where applicable)

Selective cohort. No refunds once access is provisioned. Please review the curriculum and audience fit before reserving your seat.

Frequently Asked Questions

If you have a question that's not here, email support@manifoldailearning.in.

Is this only for bootcamp learners? +
No. This accelerator is open to working engineers who are building or operating AI systems — whether or not you've taken a Manifold AI Learning bootcamp. It complements the longer programs but stands on its own as a testing-and-evaluation specialisation.
Is this beginner-friendly? +
No. This is a premium, implementation-focused program. You should already have built at least one LLM, RAG, or agent application, and be comfortable with Python and APIs. Absolute beginners and prompt-only learners will be out of depth.
Will recordings be available? +
Cohort access details, including the recording policy and validity window, are shared at enrolment and may be updated cohort over cohort. Reach out before enrolling if recording access is critical to your decision and we'll confirm the current policy.
Do I need to know LangGraph? +
No. The testing patterns covered apply across LangChain, LangGraph, custom orchestrators, and tool-only stacks. If you've built and run an agent or RAG application end-to-end at least once, you have enough context.
Is this only about RAG? +
No. RAG evaluation is one full session out of four. The other sessions cover LLM-application evaluation, agent workflow and safety testing, performance testing, monitoring, and drift — the full surface of an agentic system.
Will this help in interviews? +
Yes. Senior AI / GenAI interviews increasingly probe evaluation rigour, failure modes, safety strategy, and production readiness. This accelerator gives you the vocabulary and the reasoning — groundedness, faithfulness, regression baselines, drift, release thresholds — that those conversations are listening for.
Is this hands-on? +
Yes. Every session is implementation-focused. You'll work through concrete evaluation patterns, datasets, scorecards, and pipeline structures — not theoretical slides. The included assets (checklists, blueprints, dataset templates) are designed to be applied to your own systems immediately.
What if I miss a live session? +
Each session anchors on a specific date so the cohort can work the material together. If you miss a session, the recording policy and catch-up path are shared at enrolment. If date conflicts are a concern, contact support before enrolling so we can confirm whether the current cohort works for you.
Is this different from AI Architect System Design or AI Code Review? +
Yes — the three accelerators sit at different points in the lifecycle. AI Architect System Design teaches how to think about architecture before you build. AI Code Review Playbook teaches how to review AI system implementation after the first version exists. Testing Agentic AI Systems teaches how to validate whether the system behaves reliably, safely, and consistently before and after deployment. Together they form the senior AI engineer path: design, review, test.
Does this cover security testing? +
Yes. Session 3 covers prompt injection, jailbreaks, prompt manipulation, toxicity and safety evaluation, data leakage validation, adversarial input testing, and red-team test case design as part of the agent testing layer.
Does this cover monitoring and drift? +
Yes. Session 4 is dedicated to evaluation pipelines, performance testing, monitoring, and drift — including model drift, prompt drift, retrieval drift, latency / cost tracking, automated reporting, and production dashboards.

Build Production Confidence in Your Agentic AI Systems.

If you're done shipping demos and ready to learn the evaluation, safety, and monitoring layer that real production systems require — this is the cohort.

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