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

# Assessments

> The record of every verdict your agents have reached.

## What Are Assessments?

An assessment is what an agent recorded for a single trace: the verdict it reached and why. Every time an agent reviews a trace, it leaves an assessment. The **Assessments** view under **Agents** is the full, searchable record of those verdicts across your organisation.

It is where you go to understand what your agents are catching, confirm they are behaving as you expect, and decide what to adjust.

## What Each Assessment Shows

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="The trace" icon="activity">
    Which interaction was reviewed, its direction, the service involved, and when it happened.
  </Card>

  <Card title="The verdict" icon="gavel">
    Allowed, Flagged, or Blocked, along with the agent's reasoning.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Applied instruction" icon="fingerprint">
    If an instruction shaped the verdict, it is shown so you can see exactly why the agent acted.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Escalations" icon="bell">
    If the trace was escalated, the escalation and its status appear here too.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Find What You Need

Search by keyword, or filter and save views so you can return to the same slice quickly.

| Filter by     | Examples                     |
| ------------- | ---------------------------- |
| **Agent**     | Gatekeeper or Data Protector |
| **Status**    | Allowed, Flagged, Blocked    |
| **Direction** | Inlet, Response, Signal      |
| **Service**   | The AI service involved      |

## Turn a Verdict Into a Rule

When you review an assessment and decide how that scenario should be treated in future, you can save it as an [instruction](/agents/instructions) without leaving the page. The instruction keeps a link back to the assessment it came from, so the origin of every rule stays clear.

<Tip>
  Reviewing assessments in the first weeks is the fastest way to tune your setup. What you see here tells you which services to allow or block and which data categories matter most.
</Tip>

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  <Card title="Instructions" icon="fingerprint" href="/agents/instructions">
    Save a verdict as a forward-looking rule.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Sessions & traces" icon="layers" href="/traces/understanding-sessions">
    See assessments in the context of the full interaction.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>