cff-version: 1.2.0
message: >-
  If you use ASSERT, please cite it as below. Please also consider citing the
  prior work it builds on (see the references section).
title: "ASSERT: Adaptive Spec-driven Scoring for Evaluation and Regression Testing"
abstract: >-
  ASSERT is an open-source framework for turning natural-language behavior
  specifications into executable evaluations for AI models, applications, and
  agents.
type: software
authors:
  - name: "Microsoft Responsible AI"
repository-code: "https://github.com/responsibleai/ASSERT"
url: "https://github.com/responsibleai/ASSERT"
license: MIT
references:
  - type: article
    title: "AI-Assisted Systematization for Evaluating GenAI Systems"
    year: 2026
    month: 5
    url: "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/ai-assisted-systematization-for-evaluating-genai-systems/"
    notes: >-
      ASSERT's concept-systematization stage follows this work.
    authors:
      - family-names: Agarwal
        given-names: Dhruv
      - family-names: Sheng
        given-names: Emily
      - family-names: Atalla
        given-names: Chad
      - family-names: Garcia-Gathright
        given-names: Jean
      - family-names: Mozannar
        given-names: Hussein
      - family-names: Washington
        given-names: Hannah
      - family-names: Chouldechova
        given-names: Alexandra
      - family-names: Barocas
        given-names: Solon
      - family-names: Wallach
        given-names: Hanna
  - type: software
    title: "Bloom: an open source tool for automated behavioral evaluations"
    year: 2025
    url: "https://github.com/safety-research/bloom"
    notes: >-
      ASSERT's staged evaluation pipeline is modeled on Bloom's design. Bloom's
      MIT license notice is retained in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md as good-faith
      attribution.
    authors:
      - family-names: Gupta
        given-names: Isha
      - family-names: Fronsdal
        given-names: Kai
      - family-names: Sheshadri
        given-names: Abhay
      - family-names: Michala
        given-names: Jonathan
      - family-names: Tay
        given-names: Jacqueline
      - family-names: Wang
        given-names: Rowan
      - family-names: Bowman
        given-names: "Samuel R."
      - family-names: Price
        given-names: Sara