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Response style analysis
Applied 48 · Passed 23 · Failed 25 · Not applicable 20
Rubric: services/agent/prompts/editor/v1.tmpl · SHA-256 ad82285f2536995680bae1f21d87829d473812bd68a82c518246709a6fea8ae9
Prompt
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What executive orders, presidential memoranda, or major fact sheets has https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/ published in the past 14 days? Summarize the practical effect of each.
Hark's responses
Four executive orders in 14 days, all hitting labor, energy, and agriculture. The veterans' and ranching orders are the structural plays.
### Executive orders · Table
| Date | Order | Practical effect |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 8 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/09/accelerating-access-to-veterans-benefits-and-employment-opportunities/ | Within 30 days, Defense shares separating service members' records with VA; within 180 days both build permanent sharing systems and AI benefit tools; IT contracts get rewritten for interoperability. Transition Assistance Program now guarantees each member leaves with a job offer or training slot. |
| Sep 8 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/09/adjusting-certain-delegations-under-the-defense-production-act-e2de/ | Interior Secretary can wield Defense Production Act authority over energy independently; Interior joins Commerce and Energy on section 101(c) authority. Interagency energy disputes escalate to National Energy Dominance Council. |
| Sep 4 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/09/supporting-americas-ranchers/ | 90-day deadlines: whole-of-government report on rancher regulations; Interior decides on delisting gray and Mexican wolves with looser lethal-removal rules and better depredation pay; USDA reviews authority to mandate country-of-origin beef labeling. |
| Sep 4 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/09/promoting-fair-competition-in-livestock-markets-and-expanding-market-access-for-american-meat-producers/ | Expands Packers and Stockyards Act investigations and staffing with DOJ referrals; 60-day report due. More states move into cooperative federal inspection so state-inspected meat crosses state lines; non-safety FSIS reporting gets stripped; small and regional beef processors get a guaranteed loan program. |
Six fact sheets cover trade retaliation on Canada, $500 Obamacare refunds for nearly 1 million people, a 35% equity stake in Venezuelan oil fields, 26 drug makers now under MFN pricing covering 89% of the branded market, plus Space Academy planning and 25th-anniversary Patriot Day ceremony.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/09/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-announces-the-working-families-obamacare-refunds/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/09/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-responds-to-canadas-retaliation/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/09/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-accelerates-veterans-access-to-benefits-and-employment-opportunities/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/09/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-supports-americas-ranchers/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/09/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-promotes-fair-competition-in-livestock-markets-and-expands-market-access-for-american-meat-producers/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/08/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-announces-historic-oil-agreement-to-secure-american-energy-dominance-and-drive-venezuelas-economic-recovery/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/08/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-announces-deal-with-nine-additional-pharmaceutical-manufacturers-to-lower-drug-prices-for-americans/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/08/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-establishes-a-commission-to-design-the-united-states-space-academy/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/09/patriot-day-2026-the-25th-anniversary-of-the-september-11-terrorist-attacks/
Fail
follow_explicit_style_instructions
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 user requested the practical effect of each qualifying publication. The response gives individual effects for executive orders but reduces several fact sheets to one aggregate sentence and bare links.
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 response omits the draft's explicit finding of zero presidential memoranda and drops substantial item-specific practical effects from the fact-sheet section.
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.
The response changes a qualified transition goal into a guarantee and inconsistently says there are six fact sheets while supplying eight fact-sheet URLs.
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.
Calling the veterans and ranching orders the “structural plays” adds an unsupported evaluative opinion, and saying the transition program “guarantees” an outcome exceeds the qualified source language.
use_direct_short_sentences
FailAdvisoryApplies when: Hark sends a user-visible prose response.
Requirement: Use direct, short sentences and the shortest phrasing that preserves the full meaning.
Most wording is direct, but the fact-sheet overview is one long sentence carrying numerous separate outcomes.
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.
Phrases such as “hitting,” “structural plays,” and “wield” add swagger and are less precise than neutral policy language.
match_register_to_stakes
FailAdvisoryApplies when: Hark responds about a serious, painful, or high-stakes subject.
Requirement: Stay short and direct while dropping slang and swagger.
The subject concerns consequential federal policy, but “hitting,” “structural plays,” and “wield” introduce unnecessary swagger.
keep_one_thought_per_bubble
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 combines a count and topical overview with a separate evaluative conclusion. The second compresses several unrelated policy effects into one bubble.
keep_prose_bubbles_compact
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 fact-sheet prose bubble exceeds 40 words.
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 publications share a clear schema of date, type, title, link, and practical effect. Only the executive orders use a table; the fact sheets are split between aggregate prose and bare links.
use_consistent_collection_schema
FailAdvisoryApplies when: Hark presents multiple comparable items.
Requirement: Expose the same fields with the same meanings for every comparable item.
Executive orders receive date, link, and practical effect fields, while fact sheets receive only aggregate prose or URLs without the same item-level fields.
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 fact-sheet items lose most of their draft-provided details, dates, conditions, and individual practical effects.
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.
Although URLs are supplied for the identified items, the commissioned deliverable was an item-by-item practical-effect summary. Most fact sheets are reduced to themes or links rather than delivered as complete items in one rich collection.
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.
The prose before the table is two sentences and 21 words, exceeding the one-sentence, 20-word limit.
match_detail_to_request
FailAdvisoryApplies 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.
This was a commissioned set requiring every item's practical effect. The response gives adequate detail for four orders but collapses the fact sheets into an aggregate sentence and links.
compress_summary
FailAdvisoryApplies when: Hark provides a summary.
Requirement: Put the summary in one document bubble and keep it materially shorter than the source.
The response provides summaries but does not place the complete summary in one document bubble.
follow_summary_instructions
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 requested focus was the practical effect of each publication. Several fact sheets receive no individual summary.
use_default_summary_length
FailAdvisoryApplies 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.
No length or format was specified, but the summary is split across prose, table, and links rather than delivered in one document bubble.
preserve_summary_skeleton
FailAdvisoryApplies when: Hark provides a summary.
Requirement: Keep the source's own skeleton while making each section or act a short numbered line.
The draft's executive-order, presidential-memoranda, fact-sheet, and additional-proclamation structure is not preserved; the memoranda finding disappears and the fact-sheet section is flattened.
preserve_summary_order
FailAdvisoryApplies when: Hark summarizes a source with sections or acts.
Requirement: Preserve the source's section or act order and do not drop one.
The response retains executive orders before fact sheets but drops the presidential-memoranda finding from the draft's ordered structure.
keep_summary_qualifications_local
FailAdvisoryApplies when: A summarized statement needs a qualification.
Requirement: Keep the qualification next to the summarized statement it modifies.
The transition-program statement omits the nearby qualifications that the result applies only to the maximum extent practicable and applicable and includes enrolment at the member's discretion.
use_summary_numbered_lines
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 a table, prose, and bare links rather than short numbered lines in a document bubble.
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 prose before the table adds an unsupported evaluation and exceeds the companion limit. The prose before the links summarizes multiple card destinations rather than merely supplying concise context or a caveat.
limit_rich_bubbles
FailAdvisoryApplies when: Hark sends rich content.
Requirement: Use one rich bubble unless the draft genuinely carries two distinct artifacts.
The answer uses separate table and link-set bubbles for one commissioned collection that could have been delivered coherently in one rich collection.
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 a visible title and pipe-style rows, but no observed “Excel Spreadsheet” subtitle.
Pass
lead_with_outcome
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark sends a user-visible response.
Requirement: Lead with the answer, result, necessary question, or blocker.
The first bubble immediately states the count of executive orders and its main takeaway.
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 uses concrete dates, deadlines, dollar amounts, percentages, agencies, and order numbers where available.
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 explanations are concise and do not belabor basic points or talk 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 a substantive result rather than praise, acknowledgment, or a preview.
use_structure_only_when_helpful
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 executive-order comparison uses a table, and the collection of URLs is isolated from prose.
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-description or avoidable speaker-oriented possessive construction appears.
avoid_forbidden_social_phrases
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark expresses enthusiasm, preference, or an opinion.
Requirement: Do not use bro-speak, say Hark would love something, or say Hark feels something.
Although the response offers an opinion, it does not use bro-speak or say Hark would love or feels something.
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 reply uses two prose bubbles, with rich content outside that count.
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 bubbles use capitalization and end their sentences with periods.
avoid_prose_markup
PassAdvisoryApplies 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.
avoid_duplicate_content
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 substantive content block is repeated verbatim across bubbles.
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 row in the executive-order table represents one order.
keep_table_columns_focused
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark presents a table.
Requirement: Keep columns focused on the user's decision or question.
The table's Date, Order, and Practical effect columns directly support the user's question.
group_related_links
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 related source URLs are grouped together in one link-set bubble, with one preceding prose bubble.
preserve_link_urls
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 supplied White House destinations are written as exact URLs rather than shortened domains.
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 response gives its result and takeaway before the detailed table and source links.
avoid_repeated_conclusions
PassAdvisoryApplies 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.
No conclusion is stated more than once.
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.
avoid_markdown_in_prose
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 plain-prose bubbles do not use Markdown; structured material is separated into rich bubbles.
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 focused columns, and URLs are moved into a separate link set rather than adding excessive width.
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 response includes substantive results in prose and a table rather than only pointing to an external location.
isolate_rich_content
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 link set are each placed in separate bubbles without prose mixed into those bubbles.
tag_every_bubble
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 plain text, a table card, and a link-set card into matching bubble types.
Not applicable
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 does not shorten a draft 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_delivery_pointers
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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 applicableAdvisoryApplies 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 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.
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 response shares more than one URL.
avoid_request_restatement
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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.
Not applicable. The response does not restate the user's request.
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, searching, sourcing, or verification.
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 response does not provide a progress update.
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 reports no blocker or 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 response does not require user action before continuing.
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 described.
avoid_repeated_apology
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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 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 task had completed tool results before 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.