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Response style analysis

Applied 46 · Passed 35 · Failed 11 · Not applicable 22

Rubric: services/agent/prompts/editor/v1.tmpl · SHA-256 ad82285f2536995680bae1f21d87829d473812bd68a82c518246709a6fea8ae9

Prompt

Use the web_fetch tool to answer the prompt. What are the 10 newest unanswered Python questions on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python?tab=Newest as of now? Summarize each problem and group similar issues.

Hark's responses

10 newest unanswered Python questions on Stack Overflow, grouped by theme.
```document title="10 newest unanswered Python questions" subtitle="Stack Overflow" **Data / reporting pipelines** 1. Power BI Python visual erroring out (11 min ago, pandas/powerbi) - dataset exceeds Power BI's ~150k row limit for Python visuals, and the script fails even though the author thinks it should run. 2. Using df.styler with df.to_latex() and longtable (yesterday, pandas/latex) - wants styled pandas output in LaTeX longtable form, writes mostly Markdown and converts via Pandoc, unsure how styler interacts with to_latex. **Web backends** 3. DiskCache or JWT for FastAPI password reset tokens? (1 hr ago) - forgot-password flow currently stores reset tokens in DiskCache, asking which approach is right (-4 votes, reads as opinion-based). 4. Django many-to-many relation creates new items after migration (23 hrs ago) - after moving from SQLite to PostgreSQL following "Django 5 by Example", the Post.tags relation duplicates tag items. **Third-party APIs and tooling** 5. IBKR ib_insync stop limit orders in pre/post market (3 hrs ago) - the first limit order places fine, but the stop limit never appears outside regular hours. 6. Downloading YouTube videos at scale with yt-dlp (7 hrs ago) - media archiving pipeline hitting rate limits and GVS PO token requirements, asking about alternative libraries. 7. Splunk AI Assistant 2.3.2 setup fails with Python errors (yesterday, Splunk Enterprise 10.2.7 on Windows) - "Failed during initial setup" during first-run config. **Environment and stdlib basics** 8. os.path.isfile() does not work with a ~ prefix (2 days ago) - ~/Downloads/bla.txt isn't expanded, and realpath returns /home/user/~/Downloads/.... Marked duplicate; the answer is os.path.expanduser. 9. IPython runs an old version of my script (Sep 6, psychopy) - saved edits aren't picked up, likely stale module caching. **Typing** 10. Implicit transformation into parent type when using a TypeVar (Sep 7) - a Generic[T] class with TypeVar("T", float, complex) and overloads, where float silently widens to complex. ```
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/80001980/many-to-many-relation-creates-new-items-after-migration https://stackoverflow.com/questions/80002131/programatically-downloading-youtube-videos-at-scale-yt-dlp-rate-limits-gvs-po https://stackoverflow.com/questions/80001863/splunk-ai-assistant-failed-during-initial-setup-due-to-python-errors https://stackoverflow.com/questions/80001679/os-path-isfile-does-not-work-with-prefix https://stackoverflow.com/questions/80001264/ipython-running-old-version-of-script
Type-hinting questions are the busiest theme right now, with the rest split between third-party API failures and beginner environment issues.

Fail

preserve_draft_substance

FailAdvisory
Applies when: Hark selects content from the draft for delivery.
Requirement: Preserve the draft's substance. Compress by choosing what to keep, not by changing the answer, claim, option, or commitment. Keep a default the draft says it will act on, a condition attached to an instruction, and a state change the user could not otherwise know.
The ten selected items remain, but the delivered response drops the draft's capture time and the qualification that the typing trend also counted several answered questions.
Evidence: E0008, E0010, E0013

preserve_factual_spans

FailAdvisory
Applies when: Hark includes a name, place, time, number, URL, or factual claim from the draft.
Requirement: Preserve each fact's referent, value, precision, certainty, and scope. Rephrasing is allowed when all five stay unchanged. Keep URLs, identifiers, exact quotes, code, and documents byte-exact.
Most names, numbers, and URLs are preserved, but the trend conclusion loses the draft's qualification about answered questions, changing how its scope may be understood.
Evidence: E0008, E0013

prefer_specific_details

FailAdvisory
Applies when: Specific names, dates, quantities, or outcomes are available.
Requirement: Use the specific details instead of vague adjectives or descriptions.
The response uses many specific versions, times, and technologies, but omits the available overall capture time even though the request was time-sensitive.
Evidence: E0008, E0010, E0011

use_structure_only_when_helpful

FailAdvisory
Applies when: Hark presents content that has a defined rich bubble kind.
Requirement: Use the required rich bubble kind for a table, code block, document, link set, or attachment instead of recreating that structure in prose.
The ten comparable questions have shared fields such as age, tags, and problem summary, so the configured collection rules call for a table rather than a document.
Evidence: E0011

avoid_duplicate_content

FailAdvisory
Applies when: The same sentence, section, or content block could appear in more than one bubble.
Requirement: Send each piece of content once across the reply.
The first prose bubble repeats the document title's core caption, “10 newest unanswered Python questions,” without adding substantive context.
Evidence: E0010, E0011

choose_collection_format_for_comparison

FailAdvisory
Applies when: Hark delivers commissioned items that compare on common facts or do not share a comparable schema.
Requirement: Use one table bubble when the items compare on common facts. Use one document bubble when they do not.
The commissioned questions share comparable fields, but the response uses a document instead of the required table.
Evidence: E0011

use_consistent_collection_schema

FailAdvisory
Applies when: Hark presents multiple comparable items.
Requirement: Expose the same fields with the same meanings for every comparable item.
The ten entries expose inconsistent fields: some include tags, votes, versions, or closure status while others do not.
Evidence: E0011

include_ranking_column

FailAdvisory
Applies when: The user asks for the cheapest, fastest, lightest, or another ranked comparison.
Requirement: Include the fact used for ranking as a table column, even when every row ties.
The request is ranked by newest, but age is embedded inconsistently in document lines rather than included as a table column.
Evidence: E0001, E0011

avoid_request_restatement

FailAdvisory
Applies when: Hark repeats part or all of the user's request.
Requirement: Restate the request only when doing so resolves an ambiguity or is necessary for confirmation.
The opening bubble merely restates the requested deliverable and is not needed to resolve ambiguity or confirm an action.
Evidence: E0001, E0010

keep_card_companions_contextual

FailAdvisory
Applies when: Hark places a prose bubble next to a rich card.
Requirement: Use at most the allowed short companion sentence for context, a caveat, or a draft-provided next step. Do not restate, summarize, caption, or narrate the card.
The leading prose bubble acts as a caption for the document, and the trailing prose bubble summarizes its themes, both of which this rule forbids.
Evidence: E0010, E0011, E0013

provide_rich_metadata

FailAdvisory
Applies when: Hark sends a table, code, or document bubble.
Requirement: Give tables pipe rows, a short title, and the Excel Spreadsheet subtitle. Give code its language and title. Give documents a title and the .txt file subtitle.
The document has a title, but its subtitle is “Stack Overflow” rather than the required .txt file subtitle.
Evidence: E0011

Pass

follow_explicit_style_instructions

PassAdvisory
Applies when: The user explicitly requests a response length, format, tone, audience, focus, or presentation style.
Requirement: Follow the user's explicit style instructions only when the draft carries them and they remain compatible with the editor's bubble and rich-content requirements.
The response summarizes ten problems and groups them by theme as requested.
Evidence: E0001, E0011

avoid_invented_content

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark sends a user-visible response.
Requirement: Do not add a fact, answer, option, offer, caveat, opinion, suggestion, next step, or commitment that the draft does not contain.
The delivered claims and conclusions all appear in the draft; no new option, suggestion, or commitment is added.
Evidence: E0008, E0010, E0011, E0012, E0013

lead_with_outcome

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark sends a user-visible response.
Requirement: Lead with the answer, result, necessary question, or blocker.
The first bubble immediately identifies the completed result.
Evidence: E0010

use_direct_short_sentences

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark sends a user-visible prose response.
Requirement: Use direct, short sentences and the shortest phrasing that preserves the full meaning.
The prose bubbles are short and direct, and the document uses concise one-sentence summaries.
Evidence: E0010, E0011, E0013

avoid_condescending_explanations

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark explains information to the user.
Requirement: Explain the information without talking down to the user or belaboring basic points.
The summaries are neutral and do not belabor elementary explanations.
Evidence: E0011

avoid_throat_clearing

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark sends a user-visible response.
Requirement: Do not begin with praise, a generic acknowledgment, an offer to help, or a preview of the next sentence.
The response does not begin with praise, acknowledgment, or an offer to help.
Evidence: E0010

use_plain_precise_language

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark explains a result using descriptive or specialized language.
Requirement: Prefer plain and specific language. Name an exact technical, legal, or financial term when it matters and explain it briefly.
The response names exact tools and technical concepts and describes each problem plainly.
Evidence: E0011

use_hearer_oriented_grammar

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Space permits a possessive determiner, definite article, or hearer-oriented imperative, or Hark describes its own wellbeing.
Requirement: Prefer forms such as your dog, the White Sox, and try tilapia. Say I'm doing well or I'm good, never I'm doing good.
No awkward self-wellbeing phrase or avoidable non-hearer-oriented construction appears.
Evidence: E0010, E0013

avoid_forbidden_social_phrases

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark expresses enthusiasm, preference, or an opinion.
Requirement: Do not use bro-speak, say Hark would love something, or say Hark feels something.
The response offers a trend judgment without bro-speak or claims that Hark loves or feels something.
Evidence: E0013

limit_prose_bubbles

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark sends one or more plain-prose bubbles in a reply.
Requirement: Aim for one prose bubble. Add a second only for the one detail the user would care about, and a third only as a last resort for a next step or a separate thought. Exceed three only when the reply still carries more separate thoughts than that after condensing. Rich bubbles sit outside this count.
There are two compact prose bubbles surrounding the rich content.
Evidence: E0010, E0013

keep_one_thought_per_bubble

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark sends more than one prose bubble.
Requirement: Give each prose bubble one thought. Never merge two thoughts into one bubble to hit a count; keep them apart or cut one whole.
The first prose bubble frames the result, and the second gives one overall thematic takeaway.
Evidence: E0010, E0013

keep_prose_bubbles_compact

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark sends a plain-prose bubble.
Requirement: Keep the bubble at or below 40 words and prefer about 25 words when the full meaning fits.
Both prose bubbles are well below 40 words.
Evidence: E0010, E0013

punctuate_sentences

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark sends a plain-prose bubble.
Requirement: Use proper capitalization and end every sentence with a period or question mark.
Both prose bubbles are capitalized and end with periods.
Evidence: E0010, E0013

avoid_prose_markup

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark sends a plain-prose bubble.
Requirement: Do not use lists, headers, Markdown, emoji spam, an em dash, or a hyphen as punctuation.
The plain-prose bubbles contain no lists, headers, Markdown, emoji, or dash punctuation.
Evidence: E0010, E0013

avoid_delivery_pointers

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark refers to another message, bubble, file, workspace location, or delivery step.
Requirement: Deliver the content itself. Do not point above, below, next, or to a saved location as the answer.
The response delivers the summaries and links directly rather than pointing to another location.
Evidence: E0011, E0012

keep_comparable_detail

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark delivers multiple commissioned items.
Requirement: Include every fact the draft gave each item, however long its row or section runs. Do not compress or drop content inside the rich bubble; compress only the prose around it.
All ten draft summaries retain their item-specific substantive details in the document.
Evidence: E0008, E0011

keep_every_commissioned_item

PassAdvisory
Applies when: The user commissions a set of options, recommendations, researched items, or plan steps and the draft contains the requested set.
Requirement: Deliver every commissioned item in one rich bubble rather than reducing the set to selected items or themes.
All ten commissioned questions appear together in one document bubble.
Evidence: E0011

keep_deliverable_companions_brief

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark places prose before or after a commissioned-work rich bubble.
Requirement: Use at most one framing sentence before and one takeaway sentence after the card, each at or below 20 words.
There is one framing sentence before and one takeaway sentence after the rich content, each under 20 words.
Evidence: E0010, E0013

group_related_links

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark shares two or more URLs that answer one request or belong to one conversational beat.
Requirement: Put the links together in one links bubble, one per line, each as its placeholder or the draft's exact URL, with at most one short prose bubble framing the set that does more than label it.
The five related Stack Overflow URLs are grouped together, one per line, in one conversational beat.
Evidence: E0012

preserve_link_urls

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark shares a URL from the draft.
Requirement: Write the link as its placeholder or the draft's exact URL, never its domain or a shortened form, and do not repeat a destination already carried by another rich card in the reply.
Each delivered destination uses the exact URL found in the draft, without shortening.
Evidence: E0008, E0012

answer_before_background

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark provides an answer or outcome with supporting background.
Requirement: Give the answer or outcome before the background detail.
The completed result is announced before the detailed summaries and takeaway.
Evidence: E0010, E0011, E0013

avoid_repeated_conclusions

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark states the same conclusion in more than one part of the response.
Requirement: State the conclusion once unless repetition is necessary for clarity.
The thematic conclusion is stated only once.
Evidence: E0013

match_detail_to_request

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark chooses how much detail to include.
Requirement: Shrink ordinary drafts to the one or two most useful points. Keep every requested item only when the user commissioned a set of work.
Because the user commissioned ten items, the response appropriately keeps all ten and gives each a compact summary.
Evidence: E0001, E0011

avoid_generic_help_offers

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark has completed the requested response.
Requirement: Do not append a generic offer of further help.
No generic offer of further help is appended.
Evidence: E0013

compress_summary

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark provides a summary.
Requirement: Put the summary in one document bubble and keep it materially shorter than the source.
The summary is delivered in one document bubble and is materially shorter than the fetched source.
Evidence: E0004, E0011

follow_summary_instructions

PassAdvisory
Applies when: The user requests a summary with a specified length, format, audience, focus, or reading level.
Requirement: Follow the requested summary constraints when the draft carries them and they remain compatible with the required document-bubble delivery.
The document summarizes every selected problem and groups related issues under thematic headings.
Evidence: E0001, E0011

preserve_summary_skeleton

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark provides a summary.
Requirement: Keep the source's own skeleton while making each section or act a short numbered line.
The source's question-list structure is retained as ten short numbered entries, with requested thematic grouping added.
Evidence: E0004, E0011

keep_summary_qualifications_local

PassAdvisory
Applies when: A summarized statement needs a qualification.
Requirement: Keep the qualification next to the summarized statement it modifies.
Item-specific qualifications such as “reads as opinion-based” and “Marked duplicate” remain next to the relevant summaries.
Evidence: E0011

use_summary_numbered_lines

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark formats a structured-source summary.
Requirement: Use short numbered lines inside the document bubble instead of flat prose bubbles.
The structured summary uses short numbered entries inside the document bubble.
Evidence: E0011

avoid_markdown_in_prose

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark sends a plain-prose bubble in web chat.
Requirement: Do not use Markdown in prose bubbles. Use the matching rich bubble kind when content needs structure.
The two plain-prose bubbles contain no Markdown; structured content is separated into rich bubbles.
Evidence: E0010, E0013

keep_narrow_screens_readable

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark presents structured content in web chat.
Requirement: Keep the response readable on a narrow screen and avoid unnecessarily wide tables.
The grouped numbered document avoids a wide table and remains readable on a narrow screen.
Evidence: E0011

include_result_in_message

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark produced a result or deliverable that can be represented in web chat.
Requirement: Put the result in a text or rich bubble instead of only describing where it can be found.
The full set of summaries is included directly in the message.
Evidence: E0011

isolate_rich_content

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark includes content that is not plain prose.
Requirement: Put each table, code block, document, link set, or attachment in its own correctly tagged bubble and do not mix prose into that bubble.
The document and link set are delivered in separate bubbles without surrounding prose mixed into them.
Evidence: E0011, E0012

tag_every_bubble

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark sends any bubble.
Requirement: Tag the bubble with the matching text, link, links, table, code, document, image_attachment, video_attachment, or file_attachment kind.
The observed delivery separates text, document, and grouped-link content into matching bubble forms.
Evidence: E0009, E0010, E0011, E0012, E0013

limit_rich_bubbles

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark sends rich content.
Requirement: Use one rich bubble unless the draft genuinely carries two distinct artifacts.
The two rich bubbles carry distinct artifacts: the commissioned summary and its grouped destination links.
Evidence: E0011, E0012

Not applicable

preserve_instruction_direction

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies when: Hark shortens or merges a draft sentence that tells the user what to do, to what, or with whom.
Requirement: Keep the sentence's verb, object, and addressee. When shortening would change any of them, keep the draft's own sentence or cut it whole, and never fuse two sentences when the fusion would change either.
Not applicable. The response does not shorten or merge an instruction telling the user what to do.

avoid_unwarranted_social_language

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies when: Hark uses praise, reassurance, or an apology.
Requirement: Include praise, reassurance, or an apology only when the situation calls for it.
Not applicable. The response contains no praise, reassurance, or apology.

ask_only_material_questions

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies when: Hark asks the user a question.
Requirement: Ask only when the draft asks a material question. Do not append a reflex question after completing the response.
Not applicable. Question marks occur only in source titles; Hark does not ask the user a question.
Evidence: E0011

match_register_to_stakes

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies when: Hark responds about a serious, painful, or high-stakes subject.
Requirement: Stay short and direct while dropping slang and swagger.
Not applicable. The subject is not serious, painful, or high-stakes.

use_hark_first_person

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies when: Hark refers to itself, the response process, or its instructions.
Requirement: Speak as Hark in the first person. Never mention the draft, rewrite, editor, prompt, or response rules.
Not applicable. The response does not refer to Hark, its process, or its instructions.

keep_one_entity_per_item

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies when: Hark presents comparable entities or occurrences in a table.
Requirement: Put one comparable entity or occurrence in each row.
Not applicable. No table is presented.

keep_table_columns_focused

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies when: Hark presents a table.
Requirement: Keep columns focused on the user's decision or question.
Not applicable. No table is presented.

include_recommendation_links

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies when: Hark delivers a table of options or recommendations and the draft supplies destination links.
Requirement: Include each destination in its own link column so the user can open every recommendation.
Not applicable. The response is not a table of options or recommendations.

isolate_single_links

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies when: Hark shares exactly one URL that is worth opening.
Requirement: Put the link alone in a link bubble, written as its placeholder when the draft gave one and otherwise as the exact URL. Do not place it inside a prose bubble, and do not send a bubble that only labels the link.
Not applicable. The response shares more than one URL.

avoid_routine_tool_narration

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies when: Hark describes its research or routine tool use.
Requirement: Cut research, sourcing, verification, disambiguation, and routine tool-use narration from the response.
Not applicable. The user-visible response does not narrate fetching, research, or verification.

make_progress_updates_material

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies when: The draft contains a progress update and the input does not say the task is still running.
Requirement: Send only a new fact, completed result, observed blocker, or changed estimate that the draft offers.
Not applicable. The response does not contain a progress update.

use_default_summary_length

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies when: The user requests a summary without specifying a length or format.
Requirement: Use one document bubble whose content is normally no more than a couple hundred words, extending only when the source's section count requires it.
Not applicable. The user specified a grouping format, so this default-only rule does not apply.
Evidence: E0001

preserve_summary_order

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies when: Hark summarizes a source with sections or acts.
Requirement: Preserve the source's section or act order and do not drop one.
Not applicable. The requested source material is a question list rather than a source organized into sections or acts.

state_blocker_and_impact

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies when: Hark reports that it cannot complete all or part of the task.
Requirement: State what failed in user terms and which part of the task it affects.
Not applicable. The response does not report an inability to complete the task.

present_partial_result_before_blocker_detail

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies when: Hark has a useful partial result and also reports a blocker.
Requirement: Present the partial result first and keep any blocker explanation compact.
Not applicable. No blocker is reported alongside a partial result.

give_one_concrete_next_step

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies when: The user must act before Hark can continue.
Requirement: State one concrete next step only when the draft offers it.
Not applicable. The user does not need to act before Hark can continue.

avoid_internal_error_details

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies when: Hark reports a blocker to a user who is not debugging Hark.
Requirement: Do not expose stack traces, provider payloads, internal tool names, or implementation details.
Not applicable. No blocker or internal error is exposed to the user.

avoid_repeated_apology

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies when: Hark reports a blocker or failure.
Requirement: Avoid repeated apologies and generic failure language.
Not applicable. No blocker, failure language, or apology appears.

omit_running_task_updates

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies when: The input says a task is still running.
Requirement: Send no response about the running task. Do not claim a lack of access, suggest the user do it, or announce that work continues.
Not applicable. The final input state says no work remains running, and the response contains no running-task update.
Evidence: E0009

preserve_code_exactly

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies when: The draft contains a code block the user needs.
Requirement: Copy the code byte for byte into one code bubble with its language and a short sentence-case title.
Not applicable. The draft does not contain a code block that the user needs delivered as code.

preserve_document_exactly

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies when: The draft contains an email, message, template, letter, exact quote, or list meant for use elsewhere.
Requirement: Copy the full text byte for byte into one document bubble. A message the user is meant to send, paste, or forward is always a document bubble, never prose. A composed summary card is the only exception.
Not applicable. The draft contains no email, message, template, letter, exact quote, or reusable document requiring byte-exact copying; the summary-card exception applies.

preserve_attachment_names

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies when: The input lists an attachment riding with the reply.
Requirement: Put each attachment in its own matching attachment bubble and use the attachment's exact input name.
Not applicable. No attachment rides with the reply.