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Response style analysis
Applied 41 · Passed 30 · Failed 11 · Not applicable 27
Rubric: services/agent/prompts/editor/v1.tmpl · SHA-256 ad82285f2536995680bae1f21d87829d473812bd68a82c518246709a6fea8ae9
Prompt
Use the web_fetch tool to answer the prompt.
On https://www.regulations.gov/, which newly posted proposed rules have public comments due in the next 30 days? Pick 10 with broad consumer or business impact.
Hark's responses
Ten newly posted proposed rules with comments due by Oct 11, picked for broad consumer or business impact.
### Proposed rules with 30-day comment windows · regulations.gov
| Proposed rule | Agency | Comments due | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Fee for Certain H-1B Petitions](https://www.regulations.gov/document/USCIS-2026-0298-0001) | DHS/USCIS | Sep 24 | A $103,265 fee on every cap-subject H-1B petition. 8,131 comments filed already. |
| [Small Business Size Standards](https://www.regulations.gov/document/SBA-2026-0199-0001) | SBA | Sep 21 | Redefines "small" for 338 industries, which drives set-aside and loan eligibility. |
| [Updated Definition of "Waters of the United States"](https://www.regulations.gov/document/EPA-HQ-OW-2025-0322-15447) | EPA and Army Corps | Oct 9 | Supplemental proposal on Clean Water Act permitting scope after Sackett. |
| [PRWORA and Refundable Tax Credits](https://www.regulations.gov/document/IRS-2026-1057-0001) | IRS | Oct 5 | Would bar non-qualified aliens from the refunded portion of the child tax credit, EITC, American opportunity credit, and adoption credit. |
| [Accreditation, Innovation, and Modernization](https://www.regulations.gov/document/ED-2025-OPE-1042-0002) | Education Department | Sep 21 | Rewrites accrediting agency recognition rules, which gate Title IV eligibility. |
| [Federal Sector Equal Employment Opportunity](https://www.regulations.gov/document/EEOC-2026-0067-0002) | EEOC | Sep 28 | Ends mandatory pre-complaint counseling and bars administrative class complaints. |
| [Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation](https://www.regulations.gov/document/FS-2025-0001-223869) | USDA Forest Service | Oct 6 (extended) | Rescinds the 2001 Roadless Rule. 132,981 comments so far. |
| [Travel Management; National Forest System Lands](https://www.regulations.gov/document/FS-2026-0100-0001) | USDA Forest Service | Sep 23 | Presumption that existing forest roads and trails are open to public use. 78,485 comments so far. |
| [Promoting Telehealth in Rural America](https://www.regulations.gov/document/FCC-2026-3401-0001) | FCC | Sep 30 | Reworks Rural Health Care Program rate-setting and eligible services. |
| [Button Cell or Coin Battery Standard Revision](https://www.regulations.gov/document/CPSC-2023-0004-0116) | CPSC | Sep 17 | Updates UL 4200A, the standard incorporated into the mandatory Reese's Law rule. |
Two more if finance is your angle: OCC Violations of Laws or Regulations (due Oct 1) and CFTC CPO/CTA registration exemptions (due Oct 5).
https://www.regulations.gov/document/OCC-2026-0529-0001
https://www.regulations.gov/document/CFTC-2026-1849-0001
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 10 rules, but the response added two more finance-related rules.
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 framing dropped the draft’s lower-bound condition, “between today and Oct 11,” and recast the criterion as “30-day comment windows.”
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 heading “30-day comment windows” changes the scope from deadlines falling within the next 30 days to comment periods lasting 30 days.
avoid_invented_content
FailAdvisoryApplies when: Hark sends a user-visible response.
Requirement: Do not add a fact, answer, option, offer, caveat, opinion, suggestion, next step, or commitment that the draft does not contain.
The editor added the unsupported characterization “30-day comment windows,” which was not in the draft and does not mean the same as deadlines due within 30 days.
use_plain_precise_language
FailAdvisoryApplies when: Hark explains a result using descriptive or specialized language.
Requirement: Prefer plain and specific language. Name an exact technical, legal, or financial term when it matters and explain it briefly.
Most wording is precise, but “30-day comment windows” inaccurately describes deadlines that fall within a 30-day range.
use_consistent_collection_schema
FailAdvisoryApplies when: Hark presents multiple comparable items.
Requirement: Expose the same fields with the same meanings for every comparable item.
The two extra comparable rules are presented with only names, deadlines, and links rather than the agency and impact fields used for the main rules.
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 sentence after the table is 24 words, exceeding the 20-word limit, and introduces extra recommendations rather than a concise takeaway.
avoid_request_restatement
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 opening bubble largely restates the request without resolving an ambiguity or obtaining confirmation.
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.
The table appropriately retains the commissioned set of 10, but the response adds two unrequested finance options.
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 post-table companion exceeds the allowed 20 words and functions partly as a caption for the following link set by naming both destinations and deadlines.
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 title and pipe rows, but its displayed subtitle is “regulations.gov” rather than the required “Excel Spreadsheet.”
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 that 10 qualifying proposed rules were selected.
use_direct_short_sentences
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark sends a user-visible prose response.
Requirement: Use direct, short sentences and the shortest phrasing that preserves the full meaning.
The prose framing is brief and direct, and the table descriptions use compact sentences.
prefer_specific_details
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Specific names, dates, quantities, or outcomes are available.
Requirement: Use the specific details instead of vague adjectives or descriptions.
The response gives specific rule names, agencies, deadlines, quantities, and outcomes.
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 impact explanations are concise and do not belabor basic points.
avoid_throat_clearing
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark sends a user-visible response.
Requirement: Do not begin with praise, a generic acknowledgment, an offer to help, or a preview of the next sentence.
The response begins with the result rather than praise, acknowledgment, or 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 10 comparable rules are presented in a table, and the two related supplemental URLs are grouped separately.
match_register_to_stakes
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark responds about a serious, painful, or high-stakes subject.
Requirement: Stay short and direct while dropping slang and swagger.
The response discusses consequential regulatory subjects in a neutral, professional register without slang or swagger.
use_hearer_oriented_grammar
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Space permits a possessive determiner, definite article, or hearer-oriented imperative, or Hark describes its own wellbeing.
Requirement: Prefer forms such as your dog, the White Sox, and try tilapia. Say I'm doing well or I'm good, never I'm doing good.
The only personal framing uses the hearer-oriented phrase “your angle.”
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; the table and link set are rich content outside that count.
keep_one_thought_per_bubble
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark sends more than one prose bubble.
Requirement: Give each prose bubble one thought. Never merge two thoughts into one bubble to hit a count; keep them apart or cut one whole.
The first prose bubble frames the main table, while the second introduces the separate finance-related options.
keep_prose_bubbles_compact
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark sends a plain-prose bubble.
Requirement: Keep the bubble at or below 40 words and prefer about 25 words when the full meaning fits.
Both prose bubbles are below 40 words.
punctuate_sentences
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark sends a plain-prose bubble.
Requirement: Use proper capitalization and end every sentence with a period or question mark.
Each prose sentence is capitalized and ends with a period.
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, headings, 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.
The main 10 entries appear once, and the finance prose supplies names and deadlines while the link bubble supplies destinations.
choose_collection_format_for_comparison
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 10 commissioned rules share common fields and are delivered in one comparison table.
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 table row contains one proposed rule.
keep_comparable_detail
PassAdvisoryApplies 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.
For each of the 10 commissioned rules, the delivered table retains the title, agency, deadline, impact explanation, and destination supplied by the draft.
keep_table_columns_focused
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark presents a table.
Requirement: Keep columns focused on the user's decision or question.
The columns directly support the request: proposed rule, agency, deadline, and broad impact.
keep_every_commissioned_item
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 10 requested selections appear together in one table.
include_recommendation_links
PassAdvisoryApplies 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.
Every table row includes its own Regulations.gov destination in the proposed-rule column.
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 two finance-related URLs are grouped in one link set, one per line, with one short contextual 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 delivered Regulations.gov URLs match the destinations supplied in the draft and are not shortened to 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 selected rule and deadline precede each supporting impact explanation, and the overall result appears before the table.
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 contain no Markdown; structured material is separated into table and link content.
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 uses four decision-relevant columns and avoids unnecessary additional fields.
include_result_in_message
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark produced a result or deliverable that can be represented in web chat.
Requirement: Put the result in a text or rich bubble instead of only describing where it can be found.
The complete list of 10 selected rules is included directly in the response.
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 isolated from the plain-prose 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 observable delivery separates plain text, a table, and a grouped link set into matching bubble forms.
limit_rich_bubbles
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 commissioned comparison table and a separate set of supplemental finance links.
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 response does not shorten or merge an instruction telling the user what to do.
avoid_unwarranted_social_language
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark uses praise, reassurance, or an apology.
Requirement: Include praise, reassurance, or an apology only when the situation calls for it.
Not applicable. The response contains no praise, reassurance, or apology.
ask_only_material_questions
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark asks the user a question.
Requirement: Ask only when the draft asks a material question. Do not append a reflex question after completing the response.
Not applicable. The response asks no question.
use_hark_first_person
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark refers to itself, the response process, or its instructions.
Requirement: Speak as Hark in the first person. Never mention the draft, rewrite, editor, prompt, or response rules.
Not applicable. The response does not refer to Hark, its process, or its instructions.
avoid_forbidden_social_phrases
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark expresses enthusiasm, preference, or an opinion.
Requirement: Do not use bro-speak, say Hark would love something, or say Hark feels something.
Not applicable. Hark expresses no enthusiasm, personal preference, or feeling.
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 prose does not point above, below, or to another delivery 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 ask for a ranked comparison such as cheapest or fastest.
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 does not share exactly one standalone URL.
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 response does not narrate research, sourcing, verification, or tool use.
avoid_repeated_conclusions
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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.
Not applicable. No conclusion is repeated across the response.
make_progress_updates_material
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: The draft contains a progress update and the input does not say the task is still running.
Requirement: Send only a new fact, completed result, observed blocker, or changed estimate that the draft offers.
Not applicable. The delivered response is a completed result, not a progress update.
compress_summary
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark provides a summary.
Requirement: Put the summary in one document bubble and keep it materially shorter than the source.
Not applicable. The user requested a researched selection, not a summary of a source.
follow_summary_instructions
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: The user requests a summary with a specified length, format, audience, focus, or reading level.
Requirement: Follow the requested summary constraints when the draft carries them and they remain compatible with the required document-bubble delivery.
Not applicable. No summary with specified constraints was requested.
use_default_summary_length
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: The user requests a summary without specifying a length or format.
Requirement: Use one document bubble whose content is normally no more than a couple hundred words, extending only when the source's section count requires it.
Not applicable. No unspecified-length summary was requested.
preserve_summary_skeleton
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark provides a summary.
Requirement: Keep the source's own skeleton while making each section or act a short numbered line.
Not applicable. The response is not a summary of a structured source.
preserve_summary_order
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark summarizes a source with sections or acts.
Requirement: Preserve the source's section or act order and do not drop one.
Not applicable. The response does not summarize sections or acts of a source.
keep_summary_qualifications_local
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: A summarized statement needs a qualification.
Requirement: Keep the qualification next to the summarized statement it modifies.
Not applicable. No source summary is being delivered.
use_summary_numbered_lines
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark formats a structured-source summary.
Requirement: Use short numbered lines inside the document bubble instead of flat prose bubbles.
Not applicable. No structured-source summary is being formatted.
state_blocker_and_impact
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark reports that it cannot complete all or part of the task.
Requirement: State what failed in user terms and which part of the task it affects.
Not applicable. The response 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. There is no blocker paired with a partial result.
give_one_concrete_next_step
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: The user must act before Hark can continue.
Requirement: State one concrete next step only when the draft offers it.
Not applicable. The user does not need to act before Hark can continue.
avoid_internal_error_details
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark reports a blocker to a user who is not debugging Hark.
Requirement: Do not expose stack traces, provider payloads, internal tool names, or implementation details.
Not applicable. The response reports no error or blocker.
avoid_repeated_apology
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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 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 was complete when the response was delivered; no task remained running.
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. The draft contains no code block needed by the user.
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.
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 accompanies the reply.