# Eval-driven development: How we build better agent skills for Firebase

DevFeed: [Eval-driven development: How we build better agent skills for Firebase](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/eval-driven-development-how-we-build-better-agent-skills-for-firebase-16673.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/08/eval-driven-development-agent-skills>)

Author: Charlotte Liang

Published: 2026-08-11T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Firebase Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/firebase-blog.md>)

Topics: [Agent Skills](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/agent-skills.md>), [Firebase](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/firebase.md>), [AI-assisted coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-assisted-coding.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Model Context Protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/model-context-protocol.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>)

Tags: [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [agent-skills](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent-skills.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [best-practices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/best-practices.md>), [cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cli.md>), [coding-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding-agents.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [firebase](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firebase.md>), [mcp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mcp.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how Firebase combines Agent Skills, the Firebase CLI, and MCP servers to help AI coding agents produce better Firebase code. It describes skills as focused, outcome-driven guidance for current APIs, best practices, Firestore development, and Firebase Security Rules, and notes that they can help agents discover recent features beyond their training data.

## Source excerpt

How we build better agent skills for Firebase