# Evaluator commands: create, get, list

URL: /code/cli/evaluator/records · Id: `page:code/cli/evaluator/records`

> The Evaluator Verbs create, get, list as CLI commands, with inputs, result, refusals and an example.

Reference for [Evaluator](/business/nouns/evaluator), one group of [Evaluator commands](/code/cli/evaluator).

### Evaluator.create
Creates an Evaluator. [Verb page](/business/nouns/evaluator/create?interface=cli).

```text
npx startup-builder do Evaluator.create --json '<input>' [--try | --send | --do]
```

Emits `Evaluator.created`.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `kind` | `string` | Yes | One of `code`, `generative`, `agentic`, or `human`. |
| `cascade` | `string[]` | No | Kinds tried in order when one declines, such as code, then a Human. |
| `instructions` | `text` | No | For a generative or agentic Function, what it does and how. |
| `model` | `string` | No | For a generative or agentic Function, the model it runs on. |
| `tools` | list of [Verb](/business/nouns/verb) | No | For an agentic Function, the Verbs it may call; Permissions and Limits apply to each. |
| `maxSteps` | `integer` | No | For an agentic Function, the most steps one Action may take. |
| `budget` | `money` | No | The most one Action may spend; the Mandate’s Limits apply as well. |
| `role` | [Role](/business/nouns/role) | No | For a human Function, the Role its Tasks go to. |
| `form` | `json` | No | For a human Function, the form; generated from the Verb’s inputs and outputs when absent. |
| `sla` | `string` | No | For a human Function, how long a Task may wait, as an ISO 8601 duration. |
| `escalateTo` | [Role](/business/nouns/role) | No | For a human Function, the Role a Task moves to when the service level passes. |
| `rubric` | `text` | Yes | What it grades against. An agent never varies its own Evaluators. Never randomized. |
| `integration` | [Integration](/business/nouns/integration) | No | The Integration whose outside run returns the verdict, such as a CI job; empty when the platform runs it. |
| `required` | `boolean` | No | True when `Change.merge` refuses until this Evaluator passes on the Change’s head. Never randomized. |

**Returns**

| Output | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `evaluator` | [Evaluator](/business/nouns/evaluator) | Yes | The Evaluator. |

**Refuses when**

| Check | Error | Fix | Then call |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The key is valid, but its scopes do not allow this operation. | [`forbidden`](/code/api/errors/forbidden) | Use a key whose scopes cover the operation, or ask an owner of the namespace to grant them. | None. |

**Example**

```bash
npx startup-builder do Evaluator.create --json '{"kind":"code","rubric":"Example rubric"}'
```

### Evaluator.get
Returns one Evaluator by id. [Verb page](/business/nouns/evaluator/get?interface=cli).

```text
npx startup-builder do Evaluator.get --json '<input>' [--try]
```

Reads only: it emits no Event.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `string` | Yes | The id of the Evaluator. |
| `at` | `string` | No | A time or Version name: the record as it stood then. Unset: as it stands now. |

**Returns**

| Output | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `evaluator` | [Evaluator](/business/nouns/evaluator) | Yes | The Evaluator. |

**Refuses when**

| Check | Error | Fix | Then call |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The key is valid, but its scopes do not allow this operation. | [`forbidden`](/code/api/errors/forbidden) | Use a key whose scopes cover the operation, or ask an owner of the namespace to grant them. | None. |

**Example**

```bash
npx startup-builder do Evaluator.get --json '{"id":"evaluator_cYmeRK4Drs"}'
```

### Evaluator.list
Returns Evaluators, newest first, one page at a time. [Verb page](/business/nouns/evaluator/list?interface=cli).

```text
npx startup-builder do Evaluator.list --json '<input>' [--try]
```

Reads only: it emits no Event.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `limit` | `integer` | No | At most this many records, up to 100. The default is 20. |
| `after` | `string` | No | The cursor from the previous page. |
| `where` | `string` | No | A filter over the properties, such as `paidAt = null and total.amount > 500`. |
| `sort` | `string` | No | Properties to sort by, comma-separated; a leading minus sorts descending. |
| `total` | `boolean` | No | True adds the match count as `meta.total`, exact up to 10,000 matches and estimated above. |
| `facets` | `string` | No | Properties to count by value, comma-separated, returned as `meta.facets`. |
| `fields` | `string` | No | Properties to return on each record, comma-separated; `$id` and `$type` always return. |
| `include` | `string` | No | Related records to embed in place of their URLs, comma-separated. |
| `depth` | `integer` | No | How many levels of related records to embed. The default is 1. |
| `q` | `string` | No | Words to match across the text properties, ranked by relevance. |
| `match` | `string` | No | Ranks the search by `words`, or `meaning`; words is the default. |

**Returns**

| Output | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `evaluators` | list of [Evaluator](/business/nouns/evaluator) | Yes | One page of Evaluators. |

**Refuses when**

| Check | Error | Fix | Then call |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The key is valid, but its scopes do not allow this operation. | [`forbidden`](/code/api/errors/forbidden) | Use a key whose scopes cover the operation, or ask an owner of the namespace to grant them. | None. |

**Example**

```bash
npx startup-builder do Evaluator.list --json '{"limit":20}'
```