Shipped: vertexai-openeval-adapter — EvalPort import/export for vertexai.evaluation results

[adhabnr-ux]

Built and shipped a standalone adapter that converts vertexai.evaluation metrics and EvalResults to and from EvalPort (Apache 2.0) — an open interchange format for portable LLM evaluation datasets (test cases, graders, suites, and result sets as plain JSON). It's already integrated with UK AISI's Inspect AI (PR merged) and has standalone adapter packages for a dozen+ eval/observability frameworks (Ragas, LangSmith, MLflow, Braintrust, DeepEval-adjacent tools aside — AutoGen, CrewAI, Langfuse, Evidently, TruLens, Opik, Giskard, Argilla), so a Vertex AI Gen AI Evaluation Service adapter puts it in company with the rest of that ecosystem.

vertexai-openeval-adapter

import pandas as pd
from vertexai.evaluation import EvalTask, PointwiseMetric, PointwiseMetricPromptTemplate
from vertexai_openeval_adapter import to_openeval, from_openeval, eval_result_to_openeval

dataset = pd.DataFrame({"prompt": ["What is the capital of France?"], "reference": ["Paris"]})
suite = to_openeval(dataset, input_column="prompt", expected_output_column="reference", suite_id="geo_quiz")

from openeval.validate import validate_suite
assert validate_suite(suite).valid

quality_metric = PointwiseMetric(
    metric="quality",
    metric_prompt_template=PointwiseMetricPromptTemplate(
        criteria="Is the response factually correct?", metric_definition="Factual accuracy"
    ),
)
eval_task = EvalTask(dataset=dataset, metrics=[quality_metric])
result = eval_task.evaluate()

result_set = eval_result_to_openeval(result, suite_id="geo_quiz", run_id="run-1", started_at="2026-08-16T00:00:00Z")
assert validate_result_set(result_set).valid

The metric-mapping is the part I'd flag as genuinely interesting rather than routine: PointwiseMetric maps to EvalPort's llm_judge grader with the actual rendered prompt template preserved verbatim in the grader's params.prompt_template (read directly from PointwiseMetricPromptTemplate's own rendering, not reconstructed or guessed) — so a suite exported from Vertex AI carries the real judge instructions, not a placeholder. CustomMetric and PairwiseMetric are exported as custom-typed graders (execution-only, not reconstructed on import) since both compute client-side per Vertex's own docstrings and have no portable representation. Raw string metric names ("rouge_1", "bleu", etc.) are explicitly rejected with a TypeError rather than silently guessed at, since their scoring logic isn't introspectable from the SDK's own objects. The adapter reads EvalResult.metrics_table using Vertex's own column convention (f"{metric_name}/score"), verified directly against vertexai/evaluation/_evaluation.py source rather than assumed.

Tested against the real google-cloud-aiplatform[evaluation] package (not mocks) and the real openeval.validate.validate_suite()/validate_result_set(). Full README with the complete mapping table and round-trip notes: https://github.com/adhabnr-ux/evalport/tree/main/adapters/vertexai-openeval-adapter#readme

No action needed here — this lives entirely as an external package (pip install vertexai-openeval-adapter), zero footprint on google-cloud-aiplatform itself. Flagging mainly so it's discoverable; happy to adjust the mapping if the evaluation module's public API shifts.