Response style analysis

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

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 response omitted the draft's explicit finding that there were no presidential memoranda and omitted its note about two additional proclamations. It also reduced the stated six fact sheets to five table rows.

Evidence: E0050, E0051, E0052

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.

Several factual spans changed materially. The ranchers order only required a determination about wolf delisting, but the table says the wolves are eligible for delisting. The Venezuela agreement gave a production-cost purchase right for 20% and first refusal on the remaining 80%, but the table says first refusal applies to 20%.

Evidence: E0022, E0041, E0052

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 ranchers row removed the condition that Interior must first determine that recovery criteria have been met before beginning delisting.

Evidence: E0022, E0052

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 table introduced an incorrect right of first refusal on 20% of Venezuelan output and presented conditional wolf delisting as established eligibility.

Evidence: E0022, E0041, E0052

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 table substantially compresses facts supplied for each commissioned item and omits multiple fact sheets entirely, despite the rule requiring all item-level draft detail inside the rich bubble.

Evidence: E0050, E0052

keep_every_commissioned_item

FailAdvisory

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.

The response announces six fact sheets but the table contains only five fact-sheet rows. Three companion fact sheets present in the source set appear only as bare URLs and receive no practical-effect entry.

Evidence: E0051, E0052, E0053

match_detail_to_request

FailAdvisory

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 user commissioned a set and asked for the practical effect of each. The table omits practical-effect entries for several included fact sheets and does not explicitly report the absence of memoranda.

Evidence: E0001, E0051, E0052, E0053

keep_summary_qualifications_local

FailAdvisory

Applies when: A summarized statement needs a qualification.

Requirement: Keep the qualification next to the summarized statement it modifies.

A key qualification was not kept next to the wolf-delisting statement. The source made delisting conditional on Interior finding that recovery criteria were met, while the table states eligibility without that condition.

Evidence: E0022, E0052

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 a title and pipe-style rows, but no observable Excel Spreadsheet subtitle is provided.

Evidence: E0052

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 used the requested concise summary format and presented practical effects rather than reproducing the source text.

Evidence: E0001, E0051, E0052

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 publication count and date window.

Evidence: E0051

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 the table uses compact, direct descriptions.

Evidence: E0051, E0052

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 uses order numbers, dates, deadlines, agency names, dollar figures, and percentages.

Evidence: E0052

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 explanations are neutral and do not belabor basic concepts.

Evidence: E0052

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.

Evidence: E0051

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 publications are placed in a table and the source URLs are placed together in a separate link set.

Evidence: E0052, E0053

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 generally uses plain language while retaining relevant terms such as the Defense Production Act and most-favored-nation pricing.

Evidence: E0052

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 register is formal and restrained for government-policy content.

Evidence: E0051, E0052

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 one short prose bubble before the rich content.

Evidence: E0051

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 prose bubble is well below 40 words.

Evidence: E0051

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 sentence is capitalized and ends with a period.

Evidence: E0051

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, header, Markdown, emoji, em dash, or punctuation hyphen.

Evidence: E0051

avoid_delivery_pointers

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark refers to another message, bubble, file, workspace location, or delivery step.

Requirement: Deliver the content itself. Do not point above, below, next, or to a saved location as the answer.

The response delivers the result directly and does not point to another location as the answer.

Evidence: E0051, E0052, E0053

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.

The prose gives only a count, the table gives the summaries, and the final bubble gives URLs without repeating the summaries.

Evidence: E0051, E0052, E0053

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 commissioned publications share common fields and are presented in one comparison table.

Evidence: E0052

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 represents one executive order or one fact sheet.

Evidence: E0052

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 table row uses the same Item, Agency, Deadline, and What changes fields.

Evidence: E0052

keep_table_columns_focused

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark presents a table.

Requirement: Keep columns focused on the user's decision or question.

The columns focus on identifying each action, responsible agency, timing, and practical effect.

Evidence: E0052

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 is 11 words, and there is no prose takeaway after it.

Evidence: E0051

group_related_links

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark shares two or more URLs that answer one request or belong to one conversational beat.

Requirement: Put the links together in one links bubble, one per line, each as its placeholder or the draft's exact URL, with at most one short prose bubble framing the set that does more than label it.

All related White House URLs are grouped together in one link-set bubble, one per line.

Evidence: E0053

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 displayed destinations use the exact White House URLs supplied by the research results.

Evidence: E0007, E0013, E0053

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 count and date range precede the detailed item descriptions.

Evidence: E0051, E0052

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 repeat the user's request; it states the result and timeframe.

Evidence: E0001, E0051

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 visible response does not narrate fetching, searching, or verification.

Evidence: E0051, E0052, E0053

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.

No substantive conclusion is repeated across the bubbles.

Evidence: E0051, E0052, E0053

avoid_generic_help_offers

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark has completed the requested response.

Requirement: Do not append a generic offer of further help.

The completed response does not append an offer of further help.

Evidence: E0053

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 plain-prose bubble contains no Markdown. Structured material is separated into table and links bubbles.

Evidence: E0051, E0052, E0053

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 four focused columns and short cells, avoiding unnecessary width.

Evidence: E0052

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 publication summaries are included directly in the visible table rather than only described as saved elsewhere.

Evidence: E0052

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 link set appear in separate bubbles, with the framing prose isolated in its own bubble.

Evidence: E0051, E0052, E0053

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 supplies the timeframe and count without narrating or summarizing the card.

Evidence: E0051, E0052

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 observable delivery separates a prose bubble, a table bubble, and a links bubble according to content kind.

Evidence: E0051, E0052, E0053

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: a comparison table and a grouped source-link set.

Evidence: E0052, E0053

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.

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 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 contain more than one prose bubble.

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 is a research inventory, not a table of options or recommendations.

isolate_single_links

Not applicableAdvisory

Applies when: Hark shares exactly one URL that is worth opening.

Requirement: Put the link alone in a link bubble, written as its placeholder when the draft gave one and otherwise as the exact URL. Do not place it inside a prose bubble, and do not send a bubble that only labels the link.

Not applicable. The response shares more than one URL.

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 visible assistant response contains no 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 researched collection of separate publications, not a summary of one 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 request is for a researched inventory with per-item effects, not a constrained summary of a source.

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 default single-source summary rule does not apply to this commissioned collection.

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. There is no source document with a section or act skeleton being summarized.

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. There is no single sectioned or act-based source whose order must be preserved.

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. This is a comparison collection rather than 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 error or blocker details are exposed.

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 visible response was delivered after the tool work completed, not while the task was still running.

Evidence: E0032, E0051

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 source material 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 response does not deliver an email, template, exact quote, or other text meant for reuse elsewhere.

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 reply attachment is listed.

Prompt

Hark's responses

Fail

preserve_draft_substance

preserve_factual_spans

preserve_instruction_direction

avoid_invented_content

keep_comparable_detail

keep_every_commissioned_item

match_detail_to_request

keep_summary_qualifications_local

provide_rich_metadata

Pass

follow_explicit_style_instructions

lead_with_outcome

use_direct_short_sentences

prefer_specific_details

avoid_condescending_explanations

avoid_throat_clearing

use_structure_only_when_helpful

use_plain_precise_language

match_register_to_stakes

limit_prose_bubbles

keep_prose_bubbles_compact

punctuate_sentences

avoid_prose_markup

avoid_delivery_pointers

avoid_duplicate_content

choose_collection_format_for_comparison

keep_one_entity_per_item

use_consistent_collection_schema

keep_table_columns_focused

keep_deliverable_companions_brief

group_related_links

preserve_link_urls

answer_before_background

avoid_request_restatement

avoid_routine_tool_narration

avoid_repeated_conclusions

avoid_generic_help_offers

avoid_markdown_in_prose

keep_narrow_screens_readable

include_result_in_message

isolate_rich_content

keep_card_companions_contextual

tag_every_bubble

limit_rich_bubbles

Not applicable

avoid_unwarranted_social_language

ask_only_material_questions

use_hark_first_person

use_hearer_oriented_grammar

avoid_forbidden_social_phrases

keep_one_thought_per_bubble

include_ranking_column

include_recommendation_links

isolate_single_links

make_progress_updates_material

compress_summary

follow_summary_instructions

use_default_summary_length

preserve_summary_skeleton

preserve_summary_order

use_summary_numbered_lines

state_blocker_and_impact

present_partial_result_before_blocker_detail

give_one_concrete_next_step

avoid_internal_error_details

avoid_repeated_apology

omit_running_task_updates

preserve_code_exactly

preserve_document_exactly

preserve_attachment_names