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Response style analysis
Applied 40 · Passed 30 · Failed 10 · Not applicable 28
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 proposed rules with broad reach, all closing by Oct 11.
### Proposed rules with near-term comment deadlines · regulations.gov
| Comments due | Agency | Proposed rule |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 15 | CMS | [CY 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Shared Savings Program](https://www.regulations.gov/document/CMS-2026-2377-0002) |
| Sep 17 | CPSC | [Revision to the voluntary standard for products containing button cell batteries](https://www.regulations.gov/document/CPSC-2023-0004-0116) |
| Sep 21 | SBA | [Small Business Size Standards](https://www.regulations.gov/document/SBA-2026-0199-0001) |
| Sep 21 | SBA | [Revised Size Standards Methodology](https://www.regulations.gov/document/SBA-2026-0265-0001) |
| Sep 21 | Education Dept | [Recognition of accrediting agencies and institutional eligibility](https://www.regulations.gov/document/ED-2025-OPE-1042-0002) |
| Sep 24 | DHS/USCIS | [Fee for Certain H-1B Petitions](https://www.regulations.gov/document/USCIS-2026-0298-0001) |
| Sep 28 | EEOC | [Federal Sector Equal Employment Opportunity](https://www.regulations.gov/document/EEOC-2026-0067-0002) |
| Sep 30 | FCC | [Promoting Telehealth in Rural America](https://www.regulations.gov/document/FCC-2026-3401-0001) |
| Oct 1 | OCC | [Violations of Laws or Regulations](https://www.regulations.gov/document/OCC-2026-0529-0001) |
| Oct 9 | EPA and Army Corps | [Updated Definition of "Waters of the United States"](https://www.regulations.gov/document/EPA-HQ-OW-2025-0322-15447) |
Also watch FDIC [Disclosure of Information](https://www.regulations.gov/document/FDIC-2026-1585-0001) and CFTC [CPO/CTA duplicative regulation relief](https://www.regulations.gov/document/CFTC-2026-1849-0001), both due Oct 5, if you follow banking or derivatives.
Fail
use_structure_only_when_helpful
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 comparison is visibly recreated as a Markdown table instead of being delivered as an explicitly identified table bubble.
avoid_prose_markup
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 closing prose bubble embeds two Markdown links.
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 framing sentence is within 20 words, but the sentence after the table is about 22 words and exceeds the stated companion limit.
group_related_links
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 related ancillary destinations are embedded in prose rather than grouped in one links bubble.
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 requested set of 10 is delivered, but the response then adds two more regulatory options beyond that commissioned set.
avoid_markdown_in_prose
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 closing web-chat prose bubble contains Markdown link syntax instead of using a links bubble.
isolate_rich_content
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 is shown in the same visible message block as a Markdown heading instead of being isolated as a correctly tagged table artifact.
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 introduces two additional deliverables with embedded links instead of remaining a brief contextual caveat or takeaway about the card.
tag_every_bubble
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 assistant messages do not expose matching text, table, or links bubble tags, and the structured content appears as raw Markdown.
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.
Although the table has pipe rows and a short visible heading, it lacks the required “Excel Spreadsheet” subtitle and explicit table metadata.
Pass
follow_explicit_style_instructions
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 presents a primary set of exactly 10 rules and focuses on broad consumer or business reach, matching the requested count and focus.
preserve_draft_substance
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark selects content from the draft for delivery.
Requirement: Preserve the draft's substance. Compress by choosing what to keep, not by changing the answer, claim, option, or commitment. Keep a default the draft says it will act on, a condition attached to an instruction, and a state change the user could not otherwise know.
The delivered table preserves all 10 primary selections, dates, agencies, titles, and destinations from the prepared response, along with its two ancillary items.
preserve_factual_spans
PassAdvisoryApplies 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.
Names, dates, identifiers, and URLs appearing in the delivered response retain the values and scope used in the prepared response.
avoid_invented_content
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 selections, links, framing, and two ancillary items all appear in the prepared response; no observable new recommendation or commitment was added.
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 result: 10 proposed rules closing by October 11.
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 two prose sentences are direct and compact.
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 table uses specific due dates, agencies, rule names, and destinations rather than vague descriptions.
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, an offer, or a preview.
use_plain_precise_language
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 framing is plain, and the table uses precise regulatory titles and agency names or standard abbreviations.
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 response uses the hearer-oriented imperative “Also watch” and directly says “if you follow.”
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.
There are two short prose bubbles around the structured comparison, within the preferred limit.
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 opening bubble frames the primary set, while the closing bubble contains the separate ancillary banking and derivatives note.
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 and close to or below the preferred 25-word length.
punctuate_sentences
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark sends a plain-prose bubble.
Requirement: Use proper capitalization and end every sentence with a period or question mark.
Both prose bubbles use capitalization and end with periods.
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 rule entry or destination is repeated across the primary table and ancillary sentence.
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 presented 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.
use_consistent_collection_schema
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark presents multiple comparable items.
Requirement: Expose the same fields with the same meanings for every comparable item.
Every primary item uses the same three fields: comments due, agency, and proposed rule with destination.
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.
Every fact supplied for each primary item in the prepared response is retained in its row.
keep_table_columns_focused
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark presents a table.
Requirement: Keep columns focused on the user's decision or question.
The three columns directly support the user's decision about which proposed rules have near-term deadlines and broad reach.
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 commissioned selections appear together in the primary 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 proposed rule in the table has its own regulations.gov destination in the proposed-rule column.
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 destinations match the full URLs in the prepared response and are not reduced to domains or shortened forms.
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 result is stated before the table, and no background precedes it.
avoid_request_restatement
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 identifies the result without unnecessarily repeating the full request or its research instructions.
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.
The response states the overall result once; the table title labels the artifact rather than repeating a substantive conclusion.
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 to help further.
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 remains reasonably readable on a narrow screen.
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 primary result is included directly in the message rather than merely described as stored elsewhere.
limit_rich_bubbles
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark sends rich content.
Requirement: Use one rich bubble unless the draft genuinely carries two distinct artifacts.
Only one primary structured artifact, the comparison table, is visibly delivered; no unnecessary series of rich cards appears.
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 or merge an instruction telling the user what to do to an object or with an addressee.
avoid_condescending_explanations
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark explains information to the user.
Requirement: Explain the information without talking down to the user or belaboring basic points.
Not applicable. The response presents results without an explanatory passage that could talk down to the user.
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.
match_register_to_stakes
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark responds about a serious, painful, or high-stakes subject.
Requirement: Stay short and direct while dropping slang and swagger.
Not applicable. The subject is informational regulatory research rather than a serious, painful, or personally high-stakes situation requiring a special register.
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. The response expresses no enthusiasm, preference, or personal opinion.
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 point above, below, to another message, or to a saved location as the answer.
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 cheapest, fastest, lightest, or otherwise ranked comparison.
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_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 describe web fetching, searching, verification, or other tool use.
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 contains no 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 response is a researched comparison, not a summary of a supplied 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. The user did not request a summary with specified constraints.
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. The user did not request an unconstrained summary.
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. No source summary is provided.
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. No sectioned or act-based source is summarized.
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 summarized statement requiring a qualification appears.
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. The response is not a structured-source summary.
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 incomplete 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. The response reports no partial-result blocker combination.
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. No blocker or internal error is reported.
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, 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 input does not say the task remains running when the response is 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 user-needed code block appears in the prepared or delivered response.
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 response contains no email, template, letter, exact quote, or text intended for reuse elsewhere.
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.