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title: "Overview"
description: "Validate, simulate, and harden your agent systems with Arksim."
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## What is Arksim?

Arksim is an open-source agent testing tool designed to help developers validate, simulate, and harden their agent systems. It focuses on reproducible interaction simulations to identify reliability and idempotency gaps before production deployment.

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## Who is it for?

Developers looking to ensure their agents are robust, reliable, and ready for real-world interactions, without relying on manual testing.

## What makes it different?

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    Fully transparent and customizable, letting you extend or adapt the tool as needed.
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    Test your agent in realistic scenarios to uncover gaps in behavior or reliability before production.
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    Use predefined scenarios to quickly validate your agent and jump-start testing effectively.
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    Integrate with existing systems and tailor the testing environment to your specific needs.
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## Core Capabilities

### Scenarios

A scenario is a test case that defines a simulated user’s attributes, goals, and prior knowledge. It provides a repeatable setup to observe your agent’s behavior across different users and intents.

### Simulation

Simulation turns scenarios into live, multi-turn conversations with your agent. You get full transcripts (and optional metadata) that you can critically inspect or pass to evaluation.

### Evaluation

Evaluation scores your agent on those conversations. You get metrics (e.g. helpfulness, faithfulness), behavior failure labels, and a deduplicated list of unique errors to fix.

## Ready to start?

Quickly evaluate and improve your AI agent with Arksim using a simulation or ready-made example.

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    Set up your first simulation in minutes.
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    Explore full implementation on GitHub.
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