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Response style analysis

Applied 42 · Passed 34 · Failed 8 · Not applicable 26

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

Prompt

Use the web_fetch tool to answer the prompt. Using https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls, what vehicle recalls were posted in the past seven days? List manufacturer, model, model years, units affected, defect, and remedy.

Hark's responses

Three vehicle recalls posted Sept 5-11, 2026.
### Vehicle recalls Sept 5-11, 2026 | Manufacturer | Model | Model Years | Units | Defect | Remedy | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | Ford Motor Company | F-150 | 2026 | 37 | Incorrect rear axle tail bearings; can cause rear wheel lock-up or driveshaft separation | Replace rear axle tail bearing free. Owner letters mail Sept 21. Ford: 1-866-436-7332 | | Bombardier Recreational Products | Can-Am Origin, Pulse, Canyon, Spyder RT, Spyder F3 | Origin/Pulse 2025-2026; Canyon 2025-2027; Spyder RT & F3 2024-2027 | 14,014 | Instrument cluster may reset, freeze, or go blank; fails FMVSS 122 and 123 | Cluster software update OTA or at dealer, free. Owner letters mail Oct 12. BRP: 1-888-272-9222 | | Kibbi, LLC | Renegade Valencia, Verona, Vera Cruz, Vienna, Villagio, Verona LE, XL, Garage, Totter, Explorer TS, Explorer, Classic RVs | 2026-2027 | 505 | Rooftop vent fan circuit board may fail and overheat, raising fire risk | Replace circuit board as needed, free. Owner letters mail Oct 19. Kibbi: 1-574-966-0196 |
https://datahub.transportation.gov/resource/6axg-epim.json

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 delivered table drops material qualifications from the draft, including the touchscreen-cluster limitation and Kibbi's inspection step.

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.
It changes the dataset's reported or received date into a posting date and removes scope from the BRP touchscreen-cluster description.

preserve_instruction_direction

FailAdvisory
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.
The remedy text omits the dealer addressee, and Kibbi's remedy omits the instruction to inspect before replacing as necessary.

avoid_invented_content

FailAdvisory
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 response says the recalls were posted during the period, while the available data and draft identify report-received dates rather than posting dates.

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 Sept. 5–11, 2026 date range appears in both the framing prose and the table title.

keep_comparable_detail

FailAdvisory
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.
The rich table omits draft-provided facts, including recall identifiers, individual received dates, touchscreen-cluster scope, consequence details, and Kibbi's inspection step.

keep_narrow_screens_readable

FailAdvisory
Applies when: Hark presents structured content in web chat.
Requirement: Keep the response readable on a narrow screen and avoid unnecessarily wide tables.
The six-column table contains long model, defect, and remedy cells, making it unnecessarily wide for narrow screens.

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 table has pipe rows and a title, but no visible Excel Spreadsheet subtitle.

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 uses a table and includes the six fields the user requested.

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 states the result and date range.

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 is brief and direct, while table cells use compact phrasing.

prefer_specific_details

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Specific names, dates, quantities, or outcomes are available.
Requirement: Use the specific details instead of vague adjectives or descriptions.
The response gives specific manufacturers, models, years, unit counts, dates, standards, and phone numbers.

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 defect and remedy explanations are factual and do not belabor basic points.

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 begins with the result rather than praise, acknowledgment, or a preview.

use_structure_only_when_helpful

PassAdvisory
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.
Comparable recalls are presented in a table rather than recreated as prose paragraphs.

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 uses clear language and retains relevant technical terms such as FMVSS 122 and 123.

match_register_to_stakes

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark responds about a serious, painful, or high-stakes subject.
Requirement: Stay short and direct while dropping slang and swagger.
The safety-recall response remains concise and professional, without slang or swagger.

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.
The response contains no awkward self-wellbeing construction or contrary possessive usage.

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 is only one plain-prose bubble before the rich content.

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.
The sole prose bubble is well below 40 words.

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.
The prose bubble is capitalized and ends with a period.

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 bubble contains no list, heading, Markdown, em dash, or punctuation hyphen.

choose_collection_format_for_comparison

PassAdvisory
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 three recalls share a common schema and are delivered in one table.

keep_one_entity_per_item

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark presents comparable entities or occurrences in a table.
Requirement: Put one comparable entity or occurrence in each row.
Each row represents one NHTSA recall occurrence.

use_consistent_collection_schema

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark presents multiple comparable items.
Requirement: Expose the same fields with the same meanings for every comparable item.
Every recall row uses the same manufacturer, model, model-year, unit, defect, and remedy columns.

keep_table_columns_focused

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark presents a table.
Requirement: Keep columns focused on the user's decision or question.
The columns directly match the recall facts requested by the user.

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 three recalls found in the draft are included in the single table.

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.
The framing sentence before the table contains only seven words, and there is no prose takeaway after it.

isolate_single_links

PassAdvisory
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.
The single source URL is placed alone in its own bubble.

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.
The delivered source URL exactly matches the destination present in the draft.

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 result appears before the detailed supporting table.

avoid_request_restatement

PassAdvisory
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 response does not unnecessarily repeat the user's full request.

avoid_routine_tool_narration

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark describes its research or routine tool use.
Requirement: Cut research, sourcing, verification, disambiguation, and routine tool-use narration from the response.
The delivered response does not narrate fetching, searching, or verification steps.

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 count of three recalls is stated once; the table then provides the supporting items.

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 a complete set, the response includes all three recalls and the requested comparison fields.

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.

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 only plain-prose bubble contains no Markdown; the structured table is isolated separately.

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 recall results themselves are included in the response rather than merely referenced elsewhere.

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 table and source link are each separated from the prose and from one another.

keep_card_companions_contextual

PassAdvisory
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 short sentence before the table provides the result count and time frame without narrating delivery mechanics.

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 bubbles are separated according to their apparent content kinds: prose, table, and single link.

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 recall table and its source link.

Not applicable

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. The response asks no questions.

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.

avoid_forbidden_social_phrases

Not applicableAdvisory
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.
Not applicable. The response expresses no enthusiasm, preference, or personal opinion.

keep_one_thought_per_bubble

Not applicableAdvisory
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.
Not applicable. The response does not use more than one plain-prose bubble.

avoid_delivery_pointers

Not applicableAdvisory
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.
Not applicable. The response does not direct the user above, below, or to a saved location.

include_ranking_column

Not applicableAdvisory
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.
Not applicable. The user did not request a ranked comparison.

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 table reports recalls rather than options or recommendations with supplied destination links.

group_related_links

Not applicableAdvisory
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.
Not applicable. The response shares only one URL.

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 is a completed result rather than a progress update.

compress_summary

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies 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 a recall listing, not a summary of a source.

follow_summary_instructions

Not applicableAdvisory
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.
Not applicable. No summary constraints were requested.

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 task was not an unspecified-length summary request.

preserve_summary_skeleton

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies 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 sectioned source.

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. No sectioned or act-based source was summarized.

keep_summary_qualifications_local

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies when: A summarized statement needs a qualification.
Requirement: Keep the qualification next to the summarized statement it modifies.
Not applicable. The response is not presented as a summary.

use_summary_numbered_lines

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies 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 was requested or delivered.

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 reports no inability or blocker.

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 accompanies the 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 reported.

avoid_repeated_apology

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies when: Hark reports a blocker or failure.
Requirement: Avoid repeated apologies and generic failure language.
Not applicable. The response contains no apology or failure language.

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 relevant tool calls completed before the final response.

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. No needed code block appears in the draft.

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 message, template, letter, exact quote, or reusable document requiring byte-exact delivery.

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.