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Response style analysis
Applied 40 · Passed 22 · Failed 18 · Not applicable 28
Rubric: services/agent/prompts/editor/v1.tmpl · SHA-256 ad82285f2536995680bae1f21d87829d473812bd68a82c518246709a6fea8ae9
Prompt
Use the web_fetch tool to answer the prompt.
Using today's sector map on https://finviz.com/map.ashx?t=sec, rank US stock sectors by performance and identify the three companies contributing most to the strongest and weakest sectors.
Hark's responses
Industrials led, Utilities lagged. Here's the full ranking and the key movers in each.
### Sector performance · Finviz sector map
| Rank | Sector | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Industrials | +1.32% |
| 2 | Communication Services | +1.30% |
| 3 | Technology | +1.12% |
| 4 | Consumer Cyclical | +1.10% |
| 5 | Financial | +0.83% |
| 6 | Real Estate | +0.68% |
| 7 | Consumer Defensive | +0.61% |
| 8 | Basic Materials | +0.30% |
| 9 | Energy | +0.03% |
| 10 | Healthcare | -0.09% |
| 11 | Utilities | -0.32% |
Industrials: SpaceX +2.04% (the bulk of it at $2.05T), then GE Vernova +3.61% and Eaton +3.96%.
Utilities: Southern Company -0.66%, Dominion Energy -1.06%, and PG&E -1.64% led the decline.
Fail
preserve_draft_substance
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 delivered wording omitted the draft's Friday-afternoon timing and the stated contribution method, market capitalization times move. It also replaced 'biggest positive contributor' with the stronger claim 'the bulk of it.'
preserve_factual_spans
FailAdvisoryApplies 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.
Names and numeric values were generally preserved, but SpaceX being the biggest contributor was broadened into the less qualified claim that it accounted for 'the bulk of it.'
avoid_invented_content
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 phrase 'the bulk of it' adds a quantitative interpretation that the draft did not make.
use_structure_only_when_helpful
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 comparison was recreated as a Markdown table inside an assistant message rather than shown as an observably tagged table bubble.
use_plain_precise_language
FailAdvisoryApplies 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.
Most language is plain, but 'key movers' and 'the bulk of it' are less precise than the draft's market-cap-times-move contribution method.
avoid_prose_markup
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 structured assistant message uses a Markdown heading and Markdown table syntax.
avoid_duplicate_content
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 opening repeats conclusions already visible in the ranking and then restated by the Industrials and Utilities bubbles.
choose_collection_format_for_comparison
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 sector comparison uses a table, but the six comparable company contributors are split across prose rather than delivered with the commissioned comparison in one rich bubble.
use_consistent_collection_schema
FailAdvisoryApplies when: Hark presents multiple comparable items.
Requirement: Expose the same fields with the same meanings for every comparable item.
The contributor entries use inconsistent fields: Industrials includes tickers and one market cap, while Utilities omits all market caps.
keep_comparable_detail
FailAdvisoryApplies 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.
The draft supplied market caps for all six named contributors, but the delivered response retained only SpaceX's market cap.
keep_every_commissioned_item
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 requested sectors and six companies appear, but they are not delivered together in one rich bubble as required; the companies are split into prose bubbles.
keep_deliverable_companions_brief
FailAdvisoryApplies 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.
Although each prose sentence is brief, the table has one framing sentence before it and two separate prose sentences after it, exceeding the allowed one takeaway sentence.
avoid_repeated_conclusions
FailAdvisoryApplies 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.
Industrials leading and Utilities lagging are stated in the opening, shown again by the ranked table, and repeated in the company-contributor bubbles.
avoid_markdown_in_prose
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 sector comparison is visibly encoded with a Markdown heading and pipe-table syntax in an assistant message.
isolate_rich_content
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 table is not observably placed in a correctly tagged table bubble, and its heading is mixed into the same assistant message.
keep_card_companions_contextual
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 sentence before the table restates its leading and lagging outcomes and captions the upcoming content rather than adding necessary context or a caveat.
tag_every_bubble
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 evidence shows generic assistant_message records rather than matching text and table bubble tags; the table is presented as Markdown.
provide_rich_metadata
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 table has pipe rows and a short heading, but no observable Excel Spreadsheet subtitle or proper table-bubble metadata.
Pass
lead_with_outcome
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark sends a user-visible response.
Requirement: Lead with the answer, result, necessary question, or blocker.
The response immediately identified Industrials as the leader and Utilities as the laggard.
use_direct_short_sentences
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark sends a user-visible prose response.
Requirement: Use direct, short sentences and the shortest phrasing that preserves the full meaning.
The prose uses short, direct sentences and compact clauses.
prefer_specific_details
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Specific names, dates, quantities, or outcomes are available.
Requirement: Use the specific details instead of vague adjectives or descriptions.
The response gives specific sector names, company names, tickers, percentages, ranks, and one market capitalization.
avoid_condescending_explanations
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark explains information to the user.
Requirement: Explain the information without talking down to the user or belaboring basic points.
The response presents the findings without belaboring basic concepts or talking down to the user.
avoid_throat_clearing
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 begins with the result rather than praise, acknowledgment, or an offer to help.
match_register_to_stakes
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark responds about a serious, painful, or high-stakes subject.
Requirement: Stay short and direct while dropping slang and swagger.
The financial-market response is neutral, concise, and free of slang or swagger.
use_hearer_oriented_grammar
PassAdvisoryApplies 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-oriented possessives or wellbeing constructions appear, and the grammar is naturally directed to the user.
limit_prose_bubbles
PassAdvisoryApplies 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.
The response uses three compact prose bubbles around one structured comparison, with the last two carrying separate strongest-sector and weakest-sector findings.
keep_one_thought_per_bubble
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 outcome, the second covers Industrials, and the third covers Utilities.
keep_prose_bubbles_compact
PassAdvisoryApplies 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.
Each prose bubble is well below 40 words.
punctuate_sentences
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark sends a plain-prose bubble.
Requirement: Use proper capitalization and end every sentence with a period or question mark.
The prose is capitalized and every sentence ends with a period.
avoid_delivery_pointers
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 findings directly and does not point above, below, or to another saved location.
keep_one_entity_per_item
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark presents comparable entities or occurrences in a table.
Requirement: Put one comparable entity or occurrence in each row.
Each sector occupies its own table row.
keep_table_columns_focused
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark presents a table.
Requirement: Keep columns focused on the user's decision or question.
Rank, sector, and daily change are directly relevant to the requested sector-performance ranking.
include_ranking_column
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 table includes both an explicit Rank column and the Change value used to rank sectors.
answer_before_background
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark provides an answer or outcome with supporting background.
Requirement: Give the answer or outcome before the background detail.
The leading and lagging sectors are stated before the detailed ranking and contributor information.
avoid_request_restatement
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 response does not unnecessarily repeat the user's request.
match_detail_to_request
PassAdvisoryApplies 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.
The user commissioned a full ranking and three contributors for each extreme sector, and the response includes those requested items without unrelated detail.
avoid_generic_help_offers
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark has completed the requested response.
Requirement: Do not append a generic offer of further help.
The completed response does not append a generic offer of further help.
keep_narrow_screens_readable
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark presents structured content in web chat.
Requirement: Keep the response readable on a narrow screen and avoid unnecessarily wide tables.
The table has only three short columns and remains readable on narrow screens.
include_result_in_message
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 complete ranking and requested contributor names are included directly in the messages.
limit_rich_bubbles
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark sends rich content.
Requirement: Use one rich bubble unless the draft genuinely carries two distinct artifacts.
Only one structured table artifact is presented.
Not applicable
follow_explicit_style_instructions
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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.
Not applicable. The user specified the research tool and requested a ranking, but did not impose a user-visible length, tone, audience, or presentation style.
preserve_instruction_direction
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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 delivered response did not shorten or merge an instruction telling the user what to do.
avoid_unwarranted_social_language
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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 applicableAdvisoryApplies 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. The response asks no questions.
use_hark_first_person
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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.
avoid_forbidden_social_phrases
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark expresses enthusiasm, preference, or an opinion.
Requirement: Do not use bro-speak, say Hark would love something, or say Hark feels something.
Not applicable. The response expresses no enthusiasm, preference, or opinion.
include_recommendation_links
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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 with supplied destination links.
isolate_single_links
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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 delivered response shares no URL.
group_related_links
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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.
Not applicable. The delivered response shares no set of URLs.
preserve_link_urls
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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.
Not applicable. No draft URL was included in the delivered response.
avoid_routine_tool_narration
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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 delivered response does not narrate web fetching, sourcing, verification, or other routine tool use.
make_progress_updates_material
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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 delivered response is a completed result, not a progress update.
compress_summary
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark provides a summary.
Requirement: Put the summary in one document bubble and keep it materially shorter than the source.
Not applicable. The user requested analysis and ranking, not a summary of a source.
follow_summary_instructions
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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.
Not applicable. No summary with specified constraints was requested.
use_default_summary_length
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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. No unconstrained summary was requested.
preserve_summary_skeleton
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark provides a summary.
Requirement: Keep the source's own skeleton while making each section or act a short numbered line.
Not applicable. The response is not a summary of a structured source.
preserve_summary_order
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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 response does not summarize source sections or acts.
keep_summary_qualifications_local
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: A summarized statement needs a qualification.
Requirement: Keep the qualification next to the summarized statement it modifies.
Not applicable. No source summary is being delivered.
use_summary_numbered_lines
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark formats a structured-source summary.
Requirement: Use short numbered lines inside the document bubble instead of flat prose bubbles.
Not applicable. No structured-source summary is being formatted.
state_blocker_and_impact
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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 applicableAdvisoryApplies 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.
give_one_concrete_next_step
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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 applicableAdvisoryApplies 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 reported.
avoid_repeated_apology
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark reports a blocker or failure.
Requirement: Avoid repeated apologies and generic failure language.
Not applicable. No failure or apology appears.
omit_running_task_updates
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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 input does not indicate that the task remained running when the response was delivered.
preserve_code_exactly
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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. No needed code block appears in the draft.
preserve_document_exactly
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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 delivery.
preserve_attachment_names
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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.