Why it matters

Shadow testing catches regressions safely. Standard for LLM behavior changes.

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The architecture

Mirror traffic.

Discard response.

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Agent shadow testingMirror trafficto new agentDiscard responseno user impactCompare offlinequality + costEnvoy shadow filter or app-level; compare offline via LLM-as-judge
Agent shadow testing.
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How it works end to end

Envoy shadow filter.

App-level mirror.

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