# Vals Launches a Tool That Turns Your Own Codebase Into a Custom Model Benchmark

Vals-Smith auto-generates evaluations from a user's repository, letting teams test models and agents on their own code rather than trusting public leaderboards.

- Published: 2026-07-28T05:31:39.988Z
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The independent benchmarking platform Vals has introduced Vals-Smith, a tool that automatically generates custom benchmarks from a user's own codebase, according to a report from the AI ML Big Data channel. The aim is to test models and age…

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