Response style analysis

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

Fail

preserve_draft_substance

FailAdvisory

Applies when: Hark selects content from the draft for delivery.

Requirement: Preserve the draft's substance. Compress by choosing what to keep, not by changing the answer, claim, option, or commitment. Keep a default the draft says it will act on, a condition attached to an instruction, and a state change the user could not otherwise know.

The delivered response drops useful draft qualifications that Eventbrite does not publish attendee counts and that prices are current live tiers with fees. It also removes each event's format or subcategory.

Evidence: E0082, E0084, E0085

lead_with_outcome

FailAdvisory

Applies when: Hark sends a user-visible response.

Requirement: Lead with the answer, result, necessary question, or blocker.

The response starts with a framing sentence about the list and ranking method rather than the requested event results themselves.

Evidence: E0084, E0085

avoid_throat_clearing

FailAdvisory

Applies when: Hark sends a user-visible response.

Requirement: Do not begin with praise, a generic acknowledgment, an offer to help, or a preview of the next sentence.

The opening message previews and captions the table instead of beginning with the table itself.

Evidence: E0084, E0085

avoid_duplicate_content

FailAdvisory

Applies when: The same sentence, section, or content block could appear in more than one bubble.

Requirement: Send each piece of content once across the reply.

The opening prose and the table title both repeat that the content is a top-10 Eventbrite list for next week in San Francisco.

Evidence: E0084, E0085

keep_comparable_detail

FailAdvisory

Applies when: Hark delivers multiple commissioned items.

Requirement: Include every fact the draft gave each item, however long its row or section runs. Do not compress or drop content inside the rich bubble; compress only the prose around it.

The draft supplies both category and event format for each item, such as festival, concert, conference, talk, or party. The delivered table drops the format details.

Evidence: E0082, E0085

include_ranking_column

FailAdvisory

Applies when: The user asks for the cheapest, fastest, lightest, or another ranked comparison.

Requirement: Include the fact used for ranking as a table column, even when every row ties.

The user requested the most popular events and the response says ranking follows Eventbrite listing order, but the table omits the draft's numbered ranking column.

Evidence: E0001, E0082, E0084, E0085

include_recommendation_links

FailAdvisory

Applies when: Hark delivers a table of options or recommendations and the draft supplies destination links.

Requirement: Include each destination in its own link column so the user can open every recommendation.

Every event is linked, but the destinations are embedded in the event-name cells rather than placed in their own link column as required.

Evidence: E0085

answer_before_background

FailAdvisory

Applies when: Hark provides an answer or outcome with supporting background.

Requirement: Give the answer or outcome before the background detail.

The ranking-method background appears before the actual event results.

Evidence: E0084, E0085

avoid_request_restatement

FailAdvisory

Applies when: Hark repeats part or all of the user's request.

Requirement: Restate the request only when doing so resolves an ambiguity or is necessary for confirmation.

The opening repeats that the response is a top-10 Eventbrite list for next week in San Francisco, even though the table immediately conveys that information.

Evidence: E0001, E0084, E0085

keep_card_companions_contextual

FailAdvisory

Applies when: Hark places a prose bubble next to a rich card.

Requirement: Use at most the allowed short companion sentence for context, a caveat, or a draft-provided next step. Do not restate, summarize, caption, or narrate the card.

The sentence before the table largely captions and repeats the table title, and the prose before the link summarizes the linked event's date, time, and venue.

Evidence: E0084, E0085, E0086, E0087

provide_rich_metadata

FailAdvisory

Applies when: Hark sends a table, code, or document bubble.

Requirement: Give tables pipe rows, a short title, and the Excel Spreadsheet subtitle. Give code its language and title. Give documents a title and the .txt file subtitle.

The table has pipe rows and a short title, but no visible “Excel Spreadsheet” subtitle.

Evidence: E0085

Pass

follow_explicit_style_instructions

PassAdvisory

Applies when: The user explicitly requests a response length, format, tone, audience, focus, or presentation style.

Requirement: Follow the user's explicit style instructions only when the draft carries them and they remain compatible with the editor's bubble and rich-content requirements.

The response provides 10 events and includes the requested date, venue, category, and price fields in a comparison table.

Evidence: E0001, E0085

preserve_factual_spans

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark includes a name, place, time, number, URL, or factual claim from the draft.

Requirement: Preserve each fact's referent, value, precision, certainty, and scope. Rephrasing is allowed when all five stay unchanged. Keep URLs, identifiers, exact quotes, code, and documents byte-exact.

The included event names, dates, times, venues, prices, and URLs retain their draft referents and values. Formatting changes such as 10:00 AM to 10 AM do not change the stated time.

Evidence: E0082, E0085, E0086, E0087

avoid_invented_content

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark sends a user-visible response.

Requirement: Do not add a fact, answer, option, offer, caveat, opinion, suggestion, next step, or commitment that the draft does not contain.

The delivered table, ranking description, and additional Oktoberfest mention all come from the draft.

Evidence: E0082, E0084, E0085, E0086, E0087

use_direct_short_sentences

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark sends a user-visible prose response.

Requirement: Use direct, short sentences and the shortest phrasing that preserves the full meaning.

The two prose messages are concise and direct.

Evidence: E0084, E0086

prefer_specific_details

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Specific names, dates, quantities, or outcomes are available.

Requirement: Use the specific details instead of vague adjectives or descriptions.

The response uses specific event names, dates, times, venues, addresses, and prices rather than vague descriptions.

Evidence: E0085, E0086

avoid_condescending_explanations

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark explains information to the user.

Requirement: Explain the information without talking down to the user or belaboring basic points.

The brief explanation of the ranking is neutral and does not belabor basic points.

Evidence: E0084

use_structure_only_when_helpful

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark presents content that has a defined rich bubble kind.

Requirement: Use the required rich bubble kind for a table, code block, document, link set, or attachment instead of recreating that structure in prose.

The comparable event results are presented as a table rather than reconstructed as unstructured prose.

Evidence: E0085

use_plain_precise_language

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark explains a result using descriptive or specialized language.

Requirement: Prefer plain and specific language. Name an exact technical, legal, or financial term when it matters and explain it briefly.

The prose and table labels use plain, readily understandable language.

Evidence: E0084, E0085, E0086

use_hearer_oriented_grammar

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Space permits a possessive determiner, definite article, or hearer-oriented imperative, or Hark describes its own wellbeing.

Requirement: Prefer forms such as your dog, the White Sox, and try tilapia. Say I'm doing well or I'm good, never I'm doing good.

The response uses hearer-oriented wording in the phrase “if you want.”

Evidence: E0086

avoid_forbidden_social_phrases

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark expresses enthusiasm, preference, or an opinion.

Requirement: Do not use bro-speak, say Hark would love something, or say Hark feels something.

The response uses no bro-speak and does not say Hark would love or feels anything.

Evidence: E0086

limit_prose_bubbles

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark sends one or more plain-prose bubbles in a reply.

Requirement: Aim for one prose bubble. Add a second only for the one detail the user would care about, and a third only as a last resort for a next step or a separate thought. Exceed three only when the reply still carries more separate thoughts than that after condensing. Rich bubbles sit outside this count.

There are two prose bubbles, with the table and link outside the prose count.

Evidence: E0084, E0085, E0086, E0087

keep_one_thought_per_bubble

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark sends more than one prose bubble.

Requirement: Give each prose bubble one thought. Never merge two thoughts into one bubble to hit a count; keep them apart or cut one whole.

The first prose bubble explains ranking, while the second gives one additional event suggestion.

Evidence: E0084, E0086

keep_prose_bubbles_compact

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark sends a plain-prose bubble.

Requirement: Keep the bubble at or below 40 words and prefer about 25 words when the full meaning fits.

Both prose bubbles are well below 40 words.

Evidence: E0084, E0086

punctuate_sentences

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark sends a plain-prose bubble.

Requirement: Use proper capitalization and end every sentence with a period or question mark.

Both prose sentences are capitalized and end with periods.

Evidence: E0084, E0086

avoid_prose_markup

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark sends a plain-prose bubble.

Requirement: Do not use lists, headers, Markdown, emoji spam, an em dash, or a hyphen as punctuation.

The prose bubbles contain no headers, lists, Markdown, em dashes, or punctuation hyphens.

Evidence: E0084, E0086

avoid_delivery_pointers

PassAdvisory

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

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

The response does not direct the user above, below, or to a saved location.

Evidence: E0084, E0086

choose_collection_format_for_comparison

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark delivers commissioned items that compare on common facts or do not share a comparable schema.

Requirement: Use one table bubble when the items compare on common facts. Use one document bubble when they do not.

The 10 events share a common schema and are delivered in one comparison table.

Evidence: E0085

keep_one_entity_per_item

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark presents comparable entities or occurrences in a table.

Requirement: Put one comparable entity or occurrence in each row.

Each table row contains one event.

Evidence: E0085

use_consistent_collection_schema

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark presents multiple comparable items.

Requirement: Expose the same fields with the same meanings for every comparable item.

Every row uses the same event, date and time, venue, category, and price fields.

Evidence: E0085

keep_table_columns_focused

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark presents a table.

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

The columns directly support the user's requested comparison fields.

Evidence: E0085

keep_every_commissioned_item

PassAdvisory

Applies when: The user commissions a set of options, recommendations, researched items, or plan steps and the draft contains the requested set.

Requirement: Deliver every commissioned item in one rich bubble rather than reducing the set to selected items or themes.

All 10 commissioned event entries are included in one table.

Evidence: E0001, E0085

keep_deliverable_companions_brief

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark places prose before or after a commissioned-work rich bubble.

Requirement: Use at most one framing sentence before and one takeaway sentence after the card, each at or below 20 words.

The framing sentence before the table and the additional-event sentence after it are each under 20 words.

Evidence: E0084, E0086

isolate_single_links

PassAdvisory

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

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

The standalone Oktoberfest destination is placed alone in its own link message, while the preceding prose provides useful context beyond merely labeling it.

Evidence: E0086, E0087

preserve_link_urls

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark shares a URL from the draft.

Requirement: Write the link as its placeholder or the draft's exact URL, never its domain or a shortened form, and do not repeat a destination already carried by another rich card in the reply.

The delivered event and Oktoberfest URLs match the URLs supplied in the draft without shortening them.

Evidence: E0082, E0085, E0087

match_detail_to_request

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark chooses how much detail to include.

Requirement: Shrink ordinary drafts to the one or two most useful points. Keep every requested item only when the user commissioned a set of work.

Because the user commissioned a set of 10 events, the response appropriately retains all 10 rather than shrinking the set.

Evidence: E0001, E0085

avoid_generic_help_offers

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark has completed the requested response.

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

The completed response does not append a generic offer of more help.

Evidence: E0087

avoid_markdown_in_prose

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark sends a plain-prose bubble in web chat.

Requirement: Do not use Markdown in prose bubbles. Use the matching rich bubble kind when content needs structure.

The plain-prose bubbles contain no Markdown; the structured comparison is isolated in the table message.

Evidence: E0084, E0085, E0086

keep_narrow_screens_readable

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark presents structured content in web chat.

Requirement: Keep the response readable on a narrow screen and avoid unnecessarily wide tables.

The table has only the five fields needed for the requested comparison, so its width is justified rather than unnecessary.

Evidence: E0085

include_result_in_message

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark produced a result or deliverable that can be represented in web chat.

Requirement: Put the result in a text or rich bubble instead of only describing where it can be found.

The full event result is included directly in the response rather than only described as saved elsewhere.

Evidence: E0085

isolate_rich_content

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark includes content that is not plain prose.

Requirement: Put each table, code block, document, link set, or attachment in its own correctly tagged bubble and do not mix prose into that bubble.

The table and standalone link each appear in separate messages without prose mixed into their content bodies.

Evidence: E0085, E0087

tag_every_bubble

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark sends any bubble.

Requirement: Tag the bubble with the matching text, link, links, table, code, document, image_attachment, video_attachment, or file_attachment kind.

The observable delivery separates plain text, the table, and the standalone link into matching message forms.

Evidence: E0084, E0085, E0086, E0087

limit_rich_bubbles

PassAdvisory

Applies when: Hark sends rich content.

Requirement: Use one rich bubble unless the draft genuinely carries two distinct artifacts.

The two rich items are distinct artifacts: the commissioned comparison table and a separately suggested event link.

Evidence: E0085, E0087

Not applicable

preserve_instruction_direction

Not applicableAdvisory

Applies when: Hark shortens or merges a draft sentence that tells the user what to do, to what, or with whom.

Requirement: Keep the sentence's verb, object, and addressee. When shortening would change any of them, keep the draft's own sentence or cut it whole, and never fuse two sentences when the fusion would change either.

Not applicable. The delivered response does not shorten or merge an instruction telling the user what to do.

avoid_unwarranted_social_language

Not applicableAdvisory

Applies when: Hark uses praise, reassurance, or an apology.

Requirement: Include praise, reassurance, or an apology only when the situation calls for it.

Not applicable. The response contains no praise, reassurance, or apology.

ask_only_material_questions

Not applicableAdvisory

Applies when: Hark asks the user a question.

Requirement: Ask only when the draft asks a material question. Do not append a reflex question after completing the response.

Not applicable. The response asks no questions.

match_register_to_stakes

Not applicableAdvisory

Applies when: Hark responds about a serious, painful, or high-stakes subject.

Requirement: Stay short and direct while dropping slang and swagger.

Not applicable. The request is not about a serious, painful, or high-stakes subject.

use_hark_first_person

Not applicableAdvisory

Applies when: Hark refers to itself, the response process, or its instructions.

Requirement: Speak as Hark in the first person. Never mention the draft, rewrite, editor, prompt, or response rules.

Not applicable. The response does not refer to Hark, its process, or its instructions.

group_related_links

Not applicableAdvisory

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

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

Not applicable. The multiple event destinations belong to the comparison table, while the only standalone link forms a separate single-link conversational beat.

avoid_routine_tool_narration

Not applicableAdvisory

Applies 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 web fetching, shell use, verification, or other routine tool operations.

avoid_repeated_conclusions

Not applicableAdvisory

Applies when: Hark states the same conclusion in more than one part of the response.

Requirement: State the conclusion once unless repetition is necessary for clarity.

Not applicable. The response does not state a conclusion more than once.

make_progress_updates_material

Not applicableAdvisory

Applies when: The draft contains a progress update and the input does not say the task is still running.

Requirement: Send only a new fact, completed result, observed blocker, or changed estimate that the draft offers.

Not applicable. The delivered response contains no progress update.

compress_summary

Not applicableAdvisory

Applies when: Hark provides a summary.

Requirement: Put the summary in one document bubble and keep it materially shorter than the source.

Not applicable. The response is not a summary of a source.

follow_summary_instructions

Not applicableAdvisory

Applies when: The user requests a summary with a specified length, format, audience, focus, or reading level.

Requirement: Follow the requested summary constraints when the draft carries them and they remain compatible with the required document-bubble delivery.

Not applicable. The user did not request a summary.

use_default_summary_length

Not applicableAdvisory

Applies when: The user requests a summary without specifying a length or format.

Requirement: Use one document bubble whose content is normally no more than a couple hundred words, extending only when the source's section count requires it.

Not applicable. The user did not request an unconstrained summary.

preserve_summary_skeleton

Not applicableAdvisory

Applies when: Hark provides a summary.

Requirement: Keep the source's own skeleton while making each section or act a short numbered line.

Not applicable. No summary is provided.

preserve_summary_order

Not applicableAdvisory

Applies when: Hark summarizes a source with sections or acts.

Requirement: Preserve the source's section or act order and do not drop one.

Not applicable. No sectioned or act-based source is summarized.

keep_summary_qualifications_local

Not applicableAdvisory

Applies when: A summarized statement needs a qualification.

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

Not applicable. No summarized statements require local qualifications.

use_summary_numbered_lines

Not applicableAdvisory

Applies when: Hark formats a structured-source summary.

Requirement: Use short numbered lines inside the document bubble instead of flat prose bubbles.

Not applicable. The response is a comparison result, not a structured-source summary.

state_blocker_and_impact

Not applicableAdvisory

Applies when: Hark reports that it cannot complete all or part of the task.

Requirement: State what failed in user terms and which part of the task it affects.

Not applicable. The response does not report an inability to complete any part of the task.

present_partial_result_before_blocker_detail

Not applicableAdvisory

Applies when: Hark has a useful partial result and also reports a blocker.

Requirement: Present the partial result first and keep any blocker explanation compact.

Not applicable. No blocker is reported.

give_one_concrete_next_step

Not applicableAdvisory

Applies when: The user must act before Hark can continue.

Requirement: State one concrete next step only when the draft offers it.

Not applicable. The user does not need to act before Hark can continue.

avoid_internal_error_details

Not applicableAdvisory

Applies when: Hark reports a blocker to a user who is not debugging Hark.

Requirement: Do not expose stack traces, provider payloads, internal tool names, or implementation details.

Not applicable. No blocker or internal error is reported.

avoid_repeated_apology

Not applicableAdvisory

Applies when: Hark reports a blocker or failure.

Requirement: Avoid repeated apologies and generic failure language.

Not applicable. The response contains no apology or failure language.

omit_running_task_updates

Not applicableAdvisory

Applies when: The input says a task is still running.

Requirement: Send no response about the running task. Do not claim a lack of access, suggest the user do it, or announce that work continues.

Not applicable. The task was completed before the response was delivered.

Evidence: E0083

preserve_code_exactly

Not applicableAdvisory

Applies when: The draft contains a code block the user needs.

Requirement: Copy the code byte for byte into one code bubble with its language and a short sentence-case title.

Not applicable. The draft contains no code block the user needs.

preserve_document_exactly

Not applicableAdvisory

Applies when: The draft contains an email, message, template, letter, exact quote, or list meant for use elsewhere.

Requirement: Copy the full text byte for byte into one document bubble. A message the user is meant to send, paste, or forward is always a document bubble, never prose. A composed summary card is the only exception.

Not applicable. The draft contains no email, message, template, letter, exact quote, or reusable document.

preserve_attachment_names

Not applicableAdvisory

Applies when: The input lists an attachment riding with the reply.

Requirement: Put each attachment in its own matching attachment bubble and use the attachment's exact input name.

Not applicable. No attachment rides with the reply.

Prompt

Hark's responses

Fail

preserve_draft_substance

lead_with_outcome

avoid_throat_clearing

avoid_duplicate_content

keep_comparable_detail

include_ranking_column

include_recommendation_links

answer_before_background

avoid_request_restatement

keep_card_companions_contextual

provide_rich_metadata

Pass

follow_explicit_style_instructions

preserve_factual_spans

avoid_invented_content

use_direct_short_sentences

prefer_specific_details

avoid_condescending_explanations

use_structure_only_when_helpful

use_plain_precise_language

use_hearer_oriented_grammar

avoid_forbidden_social_phrases

limit_prose_bubbles

keep_one_thought_per_bubble

keep_prose_bubbles_compact

punctuate_sentences

avoid_prose_markup

avoid_delivery_pointers

choose_collection_format_for_comparison

keep_one_entity_per_item

use_consistent_collection_schema

keep_table_columns_focused

keep_every_commissioned_item

keep_deliverable_companions_brief

isolate_single_links

preserve_link_urls

match_detail_to_request

avoid_generic_help_offers

avoid_markdown_in_prose

keep_narrow_screens_readable

include_result_in_message

isolate_rich_content

tag_every_bubble

limit_rich_bubbles

Not applicable

preserve_instruction_direction

avoid_unwarranted_social_language

ask_only_material_questions

match_register_to_stakes

use_hark_first_person

group_related_links

avoid_routine_tool_narration

avoid_repeated_conclusions

make_progress_updates_material

compress_summary

follow_summary_instructions

use_default_summary_length

preserve_summary_skeleton

preserve_summary_order

keep_summary_qualifications_local

use_summary_numbered_lines

state_blocker_and_impact

present_partial_result_before_blocker_detail

give_one_concrete_next_step

avoid_internal_error_details

avoid_repeated_apology

omit_running_task_updates

preserve_code_exactly

preserve_document_exactly

preserve_attachment_names