ChainForge. I'm still on the hunt for good options for running evaluations against prompts. ChainForge offers an interesting approach, calling itself "an open-source visual programming environment for prompt engineering".
The interface is one of those boxes-and-lines visual programming tools, which reminds me of Yahoo Pipes.
It's open source (from a team at Harvard) and written in Python, which means you can run a local copy instantly via uvx
like this:
uvx chainforge serve
You can then configure it with API keys to various providers (OpenAI worked for me, Anthropic models returned JSON parsing errors due to a 500 page from the ChainForge proxy) and start trying it out.
The "Add Node" menu shows the full list of capabilities.
The JavaScript and Python evaluation blocks are particularly interesting: the JavaScript one runs outside of a sandbox using plain eval()
, while the Python one still runs in your browser but uses Pyodide in a Web Worker.
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