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Sentinels are the core building blocks for automated quality checks in Maitai. A Sentinel defines:
  • What to evaluate (its directive + examples)
  • How serious it is (severity)
  • Optionally, how to qualify inputs and how to suggest corrections
Sentinels are associated with an Intent Group, and their evaluation results show up throughout the Portal (Requests, Evaluations, Events).

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Where to manage Sentinels

In the Portal:
  1. Go to Observe > Intent Groups
  2. Open an Intent Group
  3. Click the Sentinels tab
From there you can create new Sentinels, edit existing ones, and monitor their behavior.

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How Sentinels relate to Evaluations

  • An Evaluation is the act of running one or more Sentinels on a request (producing per-sentinel results like PASS / FAULT).
  • Evaluation results can be viewed globally in Test > Evaluations and on individual Request pages.
See Evaluations for the Portal workflows.

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What a Sentinel can contain

When editing a Sentinel, you’ll see configuration areas like:
  • Name and Severity
  • Evaluation directive and Examples
  • Qualification (optional)
  • Correction (optional)
  • Include options (what gets included in the sentinel’s evaluation input)
Next: Generating Sentinels.