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Response style analysis

Applied 40 · Passed 35 · Failed 5 · Not applicable 28

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

Prompt

Use the web_fetch tool to answer the prompt. What do the latest weekly data on https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/data/ show for COVID-19, influenza, and RSV? Compare the newest week with the prior week and identify regional hot spots.

Hark's responses

Latest week ending Sept 5: COVID elevated and rising, flu and RSV low.
### Lab test positivity · CDC data | Virus | Week ending 9/5 | Prior week 8/29 | |---|---|---| | COVID-19 | 5.6% | 5.6% | | Influenza | 1.3% | 1.0% | | RSV | 0.5% | 0.4% |
COVID's big mover: HHS Region 6 (TX, LA, OK, NM, AR) jumped to 14.5% from 9.8%. Hawaii, Texas, and Louisiana are state hot spots for ED visits.
Flu ticked up slightly, and Alaska's ED visits for flu doubled to 1.6%. RSV flat everywhere.
https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/data/

Fail

keep_one_thought_per_bubble

FailAdvisory
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 final prose bubble combines separate influenza and RSV conclusions in one bubble.
Evidence: E0060

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 draft supplied national ED shares and additional regional and state comparisons, but the table retains only lab positivity and leaves much of that comparable detail out.
Evidence: E0055, E0058, E0059, E0060

keep_deliverable_companions_brief

FailAdvisory
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.
Although the framing sentence is brief, the table is followed by two prose bubbles, and the first exceeds 20 words.
Evidence: E0057, E0058, E0059, E0060

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 table has two follow-up prose companions, exceeding the allowed single short companion sentence after a commissioned-work card.
Evidence: E0058, E0059, E0060

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 short title, but the required Excel Spreadsheet subtitle is not visible in the delivered response.
Evidence: E0058

Pass

preserve_draft_substance

PassAdvisory
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 claims retain the selected draft conclusions and comparisons without changing their meaning.
Evidence: E0055, E0057, E0058, E0059, E0060

preserve_factual_spans

PassAdvisory
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.
The dates, percentages, region, states, and URL match the draft and supporting data at the displayed precision.
Evidence: E0049, E0052, E0055, E0057, E0058, E0059, E0060, E0061

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 conclusions, comparisons, and hotspot claims all appear in the draft and supporting evidence.
Evidence: E0055, E0057, E0058, E0059, E0060, E0061

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 latest national outcome for all three viruses.
Evidence: E0057

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 uses short, direct sentences with little filler.
Evidence: E0057, E0059, E0060

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 supplies the week, exact percentages, named HHS region, states, and week-over-week values.
Evidence: E0058, E0059, E0060

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 response reports and interprets the data without explaining basic concepts at unnecessary length.
Evidence: E0057, E0059, E0060

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 starts with the result rather than praise, acknowledgment, or a preview.
Evidence: E0057

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.
The common week-over-week comparison is presented as a compact table.
Evidence: E0058

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.
Terms such as test positivity, ED visits, and HHS Region 6 are used plainly and precisely.
Evidence: E0058, E0059, E0060

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 health-related response remains concise and professional, without slang or swagger.
Evidence: E0057, E0059, E0060

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.
The reply uses three prose bubbles, with the table and link outside that count.
Evidence: E0057, E0059, E0060

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.
Each prose bubble is under 40 words.
Evidence: E0057, E0059, E0060

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.
Every prose sentence is capitalized and ends with a period.
Evidence: E0057, E0059, E0060

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, em dashes, or punctuation hyphens.
Evidence: E0057, E0059, E0060

avoid_duplicate_content

PassAdvisory
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.
No sentence or data block is repeated verbatim across bubbles.
Evidence: E0057, E0058, E0059, E0060, E0061

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 viruses share a common weekly positivity schema and are compared in one table.
Evidence: E0058

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 table row contains one virus.
Evidence: E0058

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 virus row uses the same newest-week and prior-week fields.
Evidence: E0058

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 support the requested newest-week versus prior-week comparison.
Evidence: E0058

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.
COVID-19, influenza, and RSV all appear in the comparison table and follow-up findings.
Evidence: E0058, E0059, E0060

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 CDC URL is placed alone in its own bubble without a redundant label.
Evidence: E0061

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 CDC URL is shown in its exact full form and is not shortened.
Evidence: E0001, E0061

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 national outcome appears before the detailed table and hotspot evidence.
Evidence: E0057, E0058, E0059, E0060

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 restate the user's request.
Evidence: E0057

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 response does not narrate fetching, searching, verification, or other tool use.
Evidence: E0057, E0058, E0059, E0060, E0061

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 opening national status and later week-over-week and hotspot findings are related but not duplicate conclusions.
Evidence: E0057, E0059, E0060

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.
The response covers all three viruses, the requested week-over-week comparison, and the principal regional and state hotspots without excessive detail.
Evidence: E0057, E0058, E0059, E0060

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: E0061

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.
Markdown structure is confined to the table bubble; the prose bubbles contain plain text.
Evidence: E0057, E0058, E0059, E0060

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 table has only three short columns and remains readable on a narrow screen.
Evidence: E0058

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 findings and comparison are delivered directly in the chat rather than only referenced elsewhere.
Evidence: E0057, E0058, E0059, E0060

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 single URL each occupy their own bubble, separate from prose.
Evidence: E0058, E0061

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 reply separates plain text, the table, and the standalone link into matching bubble-shaped messages.
Evidence: E0057, E0058, E0059, E0060, E0061

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 are distinct artifacts: a comparison table and the requested source link.
Evidence: E0058, E0061

Not applicable

follow_explicit_style_instructions

Not applicableAdvisory
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.
Not applicable. The user specified a tool, not a response length, tone, audience, or presentation style.
Evidence: E0001

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. 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.

use_hearer_oriented_grammar

Not applicableAdvisory
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.
Not applicable. No relevant possessive, imperative, or self-wellbeing construction occurs.

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 opinion.

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 point the user to another bubble or saved workspace location as the answer.

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 such as cheapest or fastest.

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 is a data comparison, not a set of options or recommendations with 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 delivered response shares only one URL.
Evidence: E0061

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 delivered response is a completed result, not 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. This is a direct data answer rather than a commissioned summary of a source document.

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. The user did not request a summary with specified constraints.

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 did not make an unconstrained 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 structured-source summary.

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 source sections or acts were being 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 governed by the structured summary rules.

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. The user did not request a structured-source summary.

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 blocker or 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.

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. 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 task was complete when the user-visible response was sent.
Evidence: E0056

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 or response.

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 artifact.

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.