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Response style analysis
Applied 38 · Passed 28 · Failed 10 · Not applicable 30
Rubric: services/agent/prompts/editor/v1.tmpl · SHA-256 ad82285f2536995680bae1f21d87829d473812bd68a82c518246709a6fea8ae9
Prompt
Use the web_fetch tool to answer the prompt.
Using https://www.premierleague.com/en/tables/premier-league, explain how the latest completed matchweek changed the title, European qualification, and relegation races.
Hark's responses
Man City and Arsenal are perfect at 9 points. Hull City's 3rd unbeaten on 7, a real surprise.
### Premier League standings · after matchweek 3
| Pos | Team | Pts | GD |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Man City | 9 | +5 |
| 2 | Arsenal | 9 | +5 |
| 3 | Hull City | 7 | +3 |
| 4 | Chelsea | 6 | +1 |
| 5 | Brentford | 5 | +3 |
| 17 | Aston Villa | 1 | -5 |
| 18 | Spurs | 1 | -5 |
| 19 | Fulham | 0 | -3 |
| 20 | Coventry | 0 | -5 |
Five teams are tied on 5 points for the Europa spot. At the bottom, Spurs and Aston Villa are both pointless scoreless nightmares, and Fulham and Coventry haven't registered a goal yet.
Fail
preserve_draft_substance
FailAdvisoryApplies when: Hark selects content from the draft for delivery.
Requirement: Preserve the draft's substance. Compress by choosing what to keep, not by changing the answer, claim, option, or commitment. Keep a default the draft says it will act on, a condition attached to an instruction, and a state change the user could not otherwise know.
The delivered response changed the relegation analysis and omitted the draft's material caveat that the cumulative table cannot show exactly what changed during matchweek 3.
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.
Spurs and Aston Villa had one point each, not zero. Fulham had scored four goals, so it was also false that Fulham had not registered a goal.
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 phrase “scoreless nightmares” introduced an unsupported characterization, alongside claims not contained in the draft.
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.
“Scoreless nightmares” is imprecise, inflammatory language and was factually unsuitable for teams that had not both been scoreless or pointless.
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 combined two separate thoughts: the European-place tie and the relegation situation.
avoid_duplicate_content
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 prose bubble repeated Man City, Arsenal, and Hull facts also shown in the table. The final prose also repeated standings represented by the table.
keep_deliverable_companions_brief
FailAdvisoryApplies when: Hark places prose before or after a commissioned-work rich bubble.
Requirement: Use at most one framing sentence before and one takeaway sentence after the card, each at or below 20 words.
The prose after the table was more than the allowed 20 words.
avoid_repeated_conclusions
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 leading-team conclusion appeared in both the opening prose and the table.
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 beside the table restated table data rather than limiting itself to context, a caveat, or a next step.
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 had pipe rows and a short title, but no visible “Excel Spreadsheet” subtitle.
Pass
lead_with_outcome
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark sends a user-visible response.
Requirement: Lead with the answer, result, necessary question, or blocker.
The first bubble immediately stated the leading teams and points totals.
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 used short, direct 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 used team names, positions, points, and goal differences rather than vague descriptions alone.
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 response did not belabor basic football-table concepts 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 began 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 comparable standings were placed in a separate table rather than reproduced as prose rows.
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 self-wellbeing phrase or conspicuously non-hearer-oriented construction appeared.
avoid_forbidden_social_phrases
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark expresses enthusiasm, preference, or an opinion.
Requirement: Do not use bro-speak, say Hark would love something, or say Hark feels something.
Although the response expressed an opinion, it did not use bro-speak or say Hark would love or feel something.
limit_prose_bubbles
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark sends one or more plain-prose bubbles in a reply.
Requirement: Aim for one prose bubble. Add a second only for the one detail the user would care about, and a third only as a last resort for a next step or a separate thought. Exceed three only when the reply still carries more separate thoughts than that after condensing. Rich bubbles sit outside this count.
The response used two prose bubbles, within the advised 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 remained 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.
The prose sentences were capitalized and ended with periods.
avoid_prose_markup
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark sends a plain-prose bubble.
Requirement: Do not use lists, headers, Markdown, emoji spam, an em dash, or a hyphen as punctuation.
The plain-prose bubbles contained no lists, headers, Markdown, em dashes, or punctuation hyphens.
avoid_delivery_pointers
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 did not direct the user above, below, or to another location for the answer.
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.
Comparable teams were presented in one table with shared fields.
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 represented one team.
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 table row used the same position, team, points, and goal-difference fields.
keep_table_columns_focused
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark presents a table.
Requirement: Keep columns focused on the user's decision or question.
Position, team, points, and goal difference were focused on the standings races.
answer_before_background
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark provides an answer or outcome with supporting background.
Requirement: Give the answer or outcome before the background detail.
The response gave the leading standings outcome before any supporting table detail.
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 response did not restate the user's request.
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.
The response did not narrate web fetching, sourcing, or verification work.
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.
The response stayed compact while addressing the title, European, and relegation areas requested.
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 did not append an 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 prose bubbles did not contain Markdown; the structured table occupied its own bubble.
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 had only four short columns and was suitable for 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 standings result and race commentary were 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 appeared in its own bubble, separate from the 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 observed response separates two prose messages from one table message, with each carrying matching visible content.
limit_rich_bubbles
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark sends rich content.
Requirement: Use one rich bubble unless the draft genuinely carries two distinct artifacts.
The response used one rich-content table bubble.
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 specified a tool, not a response length, format, tone, audience, focus, 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 delivered response did not shorten or merge a draft instruction telling the user what to do.
avoid_unwarranted_social_language
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark uses praise, reassurance, or an apology.
Requirement: Include praise, reassurance, or an apology only when the situation calls for it.
Not applicable. The response did not use praise, reassurance, or an 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 asked 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. A football standings discussion is not a serious, painful, or high-stakes subject under this rule.
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 did not refer to Hark, its process, or its instructions.
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 user did not commission a fixed set of comparable team items whose complete draft details had to be retained.
include_ranking_column
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: The user asks for the cheapest, fastest, lightest, or another ranked comparison.
Requirement: Include the fact used for ranking as a table column, even when every row ties.
Not applicable. The user did not request a cheapest, fastest, lightest, or similarly ranked comparison.
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 request was for an explanation of three races, not a commissioned set of options, recommendations, researched items, or plan steps.
include_recommendation_links
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark delivers a table of options or recommendations and the draft supplies destination links.
Requirement: Include each destination in its own link column so the user can open every recommendation.
Not applicable. The table did not present options or recommendations with destination links.
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 delivered response shared no URL.
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. The delivered response shared no set of two or more URLs.
preserve_link_urls
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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.
Not applicable. No draft URL was included in the delivered 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 was 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 an explanation, 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. 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. The response was not a summary of a sectioned 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 did not summarize a source with sections or acts.
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 qualifying statement was presented as part of a summary.
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 was 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 delivered response did not report a blocker or inability to complete the task.
present_partial_result_before_blocker_detail
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark has a useful partial result and also reports a blocker.
Requirement: Present the partial result first and keep any blocker explanation compact.
Not applicable. No blocker was reported alongside 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 did not need to act before Hark could 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 details were 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 language, or apology appeared.
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 web-fetch task had completed before the response was delivered.
preserve_code_exactly
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: The draft contains a code block the user needs.
Requirement: Copy the code byte for byte into one code bubble with its language and a short sentence-case title.
Not applicable. 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, reusable message, template, letter, exact quote, or document for verbatim delivery.
preserve_attachment_names
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: The input lists an attachment riding with the reply.
Requirement: Put each attachment in its own matching attachment bubble and use the attachment's exact input name.
Not applicable. No attachments accompanied the reply.