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Response style analysis
Applied 39 · Passed 31 · Failed 8 · Not applicable 29
Rubric: services/agent/prompts/editor/v1.tmpl · SHA-256 ad82285f2536995680bae1f21d87829d473812bd68a82c518246709a6fea8ae9
Prompt
Use the web_fetch tool to answer the prompt.
Using the current standings on https://www.nfl.com/standings/playoff-picture, which NFL teams hold playoff positions and which three are closest to moving above or below the line?
Hark's responses
The page is running a 404 because the 2026 season literally just started. Only three teams have played so far.
https://www.nfl.com/standings/
49ers and Seahawks are both 1-0, Patriots 0-1. Everyone else is 0-0, so no playoff picture yet. Want me to check after Week 1 closes?
Fail
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.
“Running a 404” is awkward and less precise than saying the page returns a 404 or is unavailable. “Literally” also adds unnecessary emphasis.
ask_only_material_questions
FailAdvisoryApplies 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.
The response appends a reflexive offer to check later after completing the available answer. The question is not necessary to resolve the current request.
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 final prose bubble combines the standings conclusion with a separate follow-up offer.
include_ranking_column
FailAdvisoryApplies 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.
The user asked which teams were closest to moving above or below the line, but the response provides no ranked table or ranking fact column.
answer_before_background
FailAdvisoryApplies when: Hark provides an answer or outcome with supporting background.
Requirement: Give the answer or outcome before the background detail.
The central answer that there is no playoff picture appears only after the 404 explanation and available records.
avoid_generic_help_offers
FailAdvisoryApplies when: Hark has completed the requested response.
Requirement: Do not append a generic offer of further help.
The response ends with the generic follow-up offer, “Want me to check after Week 1 closes?”
present_partial_result_before_blocker_detail
FailAdvisoryApplies when: Hark has a useful partial result and also reports a blocker.
Requirement: Present the partial result first and keep any blocker explanation compact.
The response presents the 404 blocker before the useful partial result containing the three team records.
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 surrounding the link exceeds the allowed one short companion sentence on each side; both adjacent prose bubbles contain two sentences.
Pass
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 response retained the blocker, the available team records, the lack of a playoff picture, and the proposed later check. It omitted scores without changing the selected answer.
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.
The delivered URL, season, team names, records, and Week 1 timing preserve the corresponding draft values and scope.
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.
All delivered claims and the follow-up question were present in the draft supplied to the delivery layer.
lead_with_outcome
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark sends a user-visible response.
Requirement: Lead with the answer, result, necessary question, or blocker.
The response begins with the immediate blocker: the requested page returns a 404.
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 uses short, direct sentences throughout.
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 names the 49ers, Seahawks, and Patriots and gives each record rather than using only vague descriptions.
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 explanation is brief and does 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 starts directly with the blocker 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 single destination URL is separated from the prose rather than embedded in it.
use_hark_first_person
PassAdvisoryApplies 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.
When referring to itself, Hark uses first-person grammar in “Want me to check.”
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 contrary possessive, article, imperative, or wellbeing construction appears.
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 plus one isolated link, staying within the preferred prose-bubble limit.
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 well 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.
Every prose sentence is capitalized and ends with a period or question mark.
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 prose contains no headers, lists, Markdown, emoji, em dashes, or punctuation hyphens. The hyphens are part of records such as 1-0.
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 first bubble states that three teams have played, while the final bubble supplies their identities and records. The content is complementary rather than duplicated verbatim.
use_consistent_collection_schema
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark presents multiple comparable items.
Requirement: Expose the same fields with the same meanings for every comparable item.
The three named teams are all presented with the same field: their win-loss record.
isolate_single_links
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark shares exactly one URL that is worth opening.
Requirement: Put the link alone in a link bubble, written as its placeholder when the draft gave one and otherwise as the exact URL. Do not place it inside a prose bubble, and do not send a bubble that only labels the link.
The exact standings URL appears alone in its own message, without a separate label-only 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 URL exactly matches the standings URL in the draft and fetched result.
avoid_routine_tool_narration
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark describes its research or routine tool use.
Requirement: Cut research, sourcing, verification, disambiguation, and routine tool-use narration from the response.
It reports the page's user-relevant 404 status without narrating fetch attempts, sourcing steps, or tool mechanics.
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 conclusion that there is no playoff picture is stated once.
match_detail_to_request
PassAdvisoryApplies 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.
Given the reported lack of a usable playoff picture, the response limits itself to the blocker, the few available records, and the conclusion.
state_blocker_and_impact
PassAdvisoryApplies 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.
The response states that the playoff page returns a 404 and explains the impact: there are no playoff seeds or bubble teams to rank yet.
avoid_internal_error_details
PassAdvisoryApplies 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.
The user-facing HTTP 404 status is relevant to the unavailable page, and no stack trace, provider payload, internal tool name, or implementation detail is exposed.
avoid_repeated_apology
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark reports a blocker or failure.
Requirement: Avoid repeated apologies and generic failure language.
The blocker is reported without repeated apologies or generic failure language.
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 prose bubbles contain no Markdown. The URL is isolated separately.
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 response uses short prose and a single isolated URL, with no wide table or dense structure.
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 directly includes the available records and the conclusion that no playoff picture can yet be ranked.
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 URL is isolated from the prose in its own message.
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 visible delivery separates plain prose from the standalone URL in the presentation appropriate to text and link content.
limit_rich_bubbles
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark sends rich content.
Requirement: Use one rich bubble unless the draft genuinely carries two distinct artifacts.
The reply uses only one rich-content item: the standings link.
Not applicable
follow_explicit_style_instructions
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: The user explicitly requests a response length, format, tone, audience, focus, or presentation style.
Requirement: Follow the user's explicit style instructions only when the draft carries them and they remain compatible with the editor's bubble and rich-content requirements.
Not applicable. The user required use of a tool, not a user-visible length, tone, or presentation style.
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 did not shorten or merge an instruction telling the user to act on an object or with an addressee.
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.
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 not serious, painful, or otherwise high stakes.
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 does not express enthusiasm, preference, or 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 the user to another bubble, file, location, or delivery step as a substitute for the answer.
choose_collection_format_for_comparison
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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.
Not applicable. Hark did not deliver the commissioned playoff comparison because it reported that no playoff picture was available.
keep_one_entity_per_item
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark presents comparable entities or occurrences in a table.
Requirement: Put one comparable entity or occurrence in each row.
Not applicable. No table was presented.
keep_comparable_detail
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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.
Not applicable. The response did not deliver a set of commissioned playoff-position items for comparison.
keep_table_columns_focused
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark presents a table.
Requirement: Keep columns focused on the user's decision or question.
Not applicable. No table was presented.
keep_every_commissioned_item
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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.
Not applicable. The draft did not contain the requested set of playoff-position teams and three bubble teams; it instead reported that the set could not yet be ranked.
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. No recommendation or options table was delivered.
keep_deliverable_companions_brief
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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.
Not applicable. There was no commissioned-work rich bubble such as a table or document.
group_related_links
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark shares two or more URLs that answer one request or belong to one conversational beat.
Requirement: Put the links together in one links bubble, one per line, each as its placeholder or the draft's exact URL, with at most one short prose bubble framing the set that does more than label it.
Not applicable. Only one URL was shared.
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.
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 draft did not contain a progress update; it contained a completed blocker and result.
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 not a requested 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. The user did not request a summary with special 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 a 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 summary was 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 was 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 summary requiring local qualifications was provided.
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 was provided.
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 did not need to act before Hark could continue the current task.
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. No task remained running when the final 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. The draft contained 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 contained no email, message, template, letter, exact quote, or reusable list artifact.
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 accompanied the reply.
provide_rich_metadata
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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.
Not applicable. No table, code, or document bubble was sent.