docs(api): evaluators endpoint docstrings + concept page

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Summary

• New concept page docs/docs/reference/api-guide/07-evaluators.mdx (~600 words). Covers what an evaluator is, the scoring contract (handler URI + JSON schemas + parameters), presets (metadata, not entities), catalog endpoints, relation to evaluations (pinned revision IDs), simple vs structured, deployment, and a worked example (create from builtin + commit + retrieve).
• Docstrings on every handler in api/oss/src/apis/fastapi/evaluators/router.py (both EvaluatorsRouter and SimpleEvaluatorsRouter, plus catalog and templates).
• Field(description=...) on every request/response field in api/oss/src/apis/fastapi/evaluators/models.py.
• Cross-links to the Versioning and Query Pattern guides. No behavior changes, no openapi_extra, no invented fields.

Endpoint coverage

30 endpoints documented across:

• Catalog: list/fetch types, templates, presets (5)
• Evaluators: create, fetch, edit, archive, unarchive, query (6)
• Variants: create, fetch, edit, archive, unarchive, query, fork (7)
• Revisions: create, fetch, edit, archive, unarchive, query, commit, log, retrieve, deploy, resolve (11)
• Simple surface: create, fetch, edit, archive, unarchive, query, list templates (7)

Verified against https://eu.cloud.agenta.ai with the provided API key: catalog types, catalog templates (list + fetch), catalog presets (list), evaluators/query, evaluators/{id}, revisions/query, revisions/retrieve, revisions/log, revisions/resolve, variants/query, simple/evaluators/query, simple/evaluators/templates, POST simple/evaluators/, POST revisions/commit, archive + unarchive. Shapes match what the docs describe.

Related

• Plan: tmp-docs-analysis/plan.md (PR-4 in the plan).
• Concept research: tmp-docs-analysis/concept-map/runnables.md (customer docs use "evaluator"; the "runnable" term does not appear).
• Sibling PRs in the series (endpoint docstrings + concept pages):
  • docs(docs): add versioning concept page #4175 — Versioning concept page (foundational; this PR links to it).
  • Applications, Evaluations, Testsets, Workflows, Tracing, Folders — parallel.

Test plan

• uvx ruff format api/oss/src/apis/fastapi/evaluators/ — 1 file reformatted, rest unchanged.
• uvx ruff check api/oss/src/apis/fastapi/evaluators/ — passes.
• ast.parse on edited files — OK.
• Live smoke test against eu.cloud.agenta.ai for the endpoints listed above. Shapes match.
• Reviewer pass on tone / structure / wording.

Notes for reviewer

• Commit + push used --no-verify because pre-commit is not installed in the sandbox. No secrets were touched; hooks will run on merge. Ruff was run manually in place of the hook.
• fork_evaluator_variant returns an empty envelope for both payload shapes I tried ({evaluator_variant_id} and {evaluator_variant: {src: {id}}}). The handler has a pre-existing # TODO: FIX ME marker. Not filing a new Linear issue; leaving the docstring generic until the fork surface is finalized. Worth a look as a follow-up.
• The edit_* docstrings note that renaming is temporarily disabled — this is enforced in the router (RENAME_EVALUATORS_DISABLED_MESSAGE).
• workflow_id = evaluator_id continuity is called out in a note at the bottom of the concept page.

Draft intentionally. Please do not mark ready until reviewed.

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