Skip to main contentSentinels 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).
Where to manage Sentinels
In the Portal:
- Go to
Observe > Intent Groups
- Open an Intent Group
- Click the Sentinels tab
From there you can create new Sentinels, edit existing ones, and monitor their behavior.
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.
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. 
