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Andy
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We built a tool to stress test AI agents with simulated conversations

Hi everyone,

A common challenge when building AI agents is anticipating how real users will interact with them. Agents might work perfectly in local tests but still break once theyโ€™re in production. Small variations in human behavior can easily expose edge cases that are hard to catch during development.

So we built ArkSim, an open-source framework that simulates conversations with synthetic users and stress-tests AI agents to help catch these issues earlier.

What does ArkSim do:

ArkSim simulates multi-turn conversations between synthetic users and your agent so you can see how it behaves across longer interactions.

This can help surface issues like:

  • Agents losing context during longer interactions

  • Unexpected conversation paths

  • Failures that only appear after several turns

The idea is to test conversation flows more like real interactions, instead of just single prompts.

Integration / Examples

There are example integrations available for:

  • OpenAI Agents SDK

  • Claude Agent SDK

  • Google ADK

  • LangChain / LangGraph

  • CrewAI

  • LlamaIndex

an image depicting an example integration with LangChain
https://github.com/arklexai/arksim/tree/main/examples/integrations/langchain

Repo

If you want to check it out:
https://github.com/arklexai/arksim

Would love feedback from anyone building agents, especially around how people are currently testing multi-turn conversations.

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