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Response style analysis
Applied 31 · Passed 25 · Failed 6 · Not applicable 37
Rubric: services/agent/prompts/editor/v1.tmpl · SHA-256 ad82285f2536995680bae1f21d87829d473812bd68a82c518246709a6fea8ae9
Prompt
Use the web_fetch tool to answer the prompt.
On https://www.zillow.com/san-francisco-ca/rentals/, how many two-bedroom rentals under $4,500 are currently listed? Summarize the five newest with neighborhood, rent, square footage, and listing date.
Hark's responses
Zillow blocks plain web fetches, so the price filter didn't stick. I got 764 two-bedrooms total but not the under-$4,500 ones.
I can run a real browser on Zillow to get the exact count and pull those five newest with all the details. Want me to do that?
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 response preserved the main blocker and proposed next step, but changed the explanation from Zillow ignoring the filter in a plain fetch to Zillow blocking plain web fetches. That materially changes the failure described.
preserve_factual_spans
FailAdvisoryApplies when: Hark includes a name, place, time, number, URL, or factual claim from the draft.
Requirement: Preserve each fact's referent, value, precision, certainty, and scope. Rephrasing is allowed when all five stay unchanged. Keep URLs, identifiers, exact quotes, code, and documents byte-exact.
The count of 764 was preserved, but the claim that Zillow blocks plain web fetches is broader than the evidence, which shows successful fetches whose price filter did not apply.
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 response introduced the stronger claim that Zillow blocks plain web fetches, while the tool evidence shows successful fetches with an unapplied price filter.
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.
The language is plain, but saying Zillow blocks plain web fetches is imprecise because the fetch succeeded and the actual observed problem was that the price filter did not apply.
avoid_routine_tool_narration
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 narrates the failed method and proposed method with references to plain web fetches and running a real browser instead of stating only the user-facing limitation and next step.
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 useful partial result of 764 total two-bedroom rentals appears after the blocker explanation rather than before it.
Pass
preserve_instruction_direction
PassAdvisoryApplies 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.
The shortened next-step question retained the action, object, and user confirmation: run a real browser session to obtain the requested results.
lead_with_outcome
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark sends a user-visible response.
Requirement: Lead with the answer, result, necessary question, or blocker.
The first sentence immediately states the blocker.
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 response 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.
It uses the available specific figures and scope, including 764 two-bedroom rentals, the $4,500 threshold, and five listings.
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 blocker is explained briefly without belaboring basic concepts or talking 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 begins with the blocker rather than praise, acknowledgment, or a preview.
ask_only_material_questions
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 sole question asks for authorization to use a different method needed to continue the task, and the draft contained that material question.
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.
The response uses first-person language and does not mention a draft, editor, prompt, or response rules.
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 wording is naturally user oriented and contains no incorrect self-wellbeing construction.
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: one for the blocker and partial result, and one for the concrete next step.
keep_one_thought_per_bubble
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark sends more than one prose bubble.
Requirement: Give each prose bubble one thought. Never merge two thoughts into one bubble to hit a count; keep them apart or cut one whole.
The first bubble presents the limits of the fetched result, while the second presents the proposed continuation.
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 under 40 words and close to the preferred 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.
Every 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 lists, headers, Markdown, emoji, em dashes, or punctuation hyphens.
avoid_duplicate_content
PassAdvisoryApplies when: The same sentence, section, or content block could appear in more than one bubble.
Requirement: Send each piece of content once across the reply.
No sentence or substantive content block is repeated across the two bubbles.
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 gives the blocker first, then the partial count and proposed continuation.
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 brief reference to the exact count and five newest listings is necessary to define the proposed next step rather than merely repeating the request.
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 blocker, the response limits itself to the two useful points: the partial count is not the requested filtered count, and a different method is needed.
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 price filter failed and explains that this prevents obtaining the under-$4,500 count.
give_one_concrete_next_step
PassAdvisoryApplies when: The user must act before Hark can continue.
Requirement: State one concrete next step only when the draft offers it.
It gives one concrete next step from the draft: authorize a real-browser run to obtain the exact count and five listings.
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 response contains no stack trace, provider payload, internal tool name, or implementation-level error detail. The user had explicitly requested web fetching.
avoid_repeated_apology
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark reports a blocker or failure.
Requirement: Avoid repeated apologies and generic failure language.
The blocker report contains no apology or repeated 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 two prose messages contain no Markdown structure or syntax.
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 available partial result, 764 total two-bedroom rentals, is included directly in the 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.
Both delivered items appear as plain assistant text messages, matching their prose content.
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.
use_structure_only_when_helpful
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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.
Not applicable. No table, code block, document, link set, or attachment was delivered.
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 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 expresses no enthusiasm, preference, or opinion and uses none of the forbidden phrases.
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 to another bubble, file, workspace location, or delivery step as 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. The requested collection of five listings was not delivered.
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 of comparable entities was presented.
use_consistent_collection_schema
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark presents multiple comparable items.
Requirement: Expose the same fields with the same meanings for every comparable item.
Not applicable. No collection of multiple comparable items 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 multiple commissioned items.
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.
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. Although the user requested the newest listings, no ranked comparison table was delivered.
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 five qualifying listings.
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 table of options or recommendations 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. No commissioned-work rich bubble was delivered.
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 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 response shares no 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. The response shares no URL from the draft.
avoid_repeated_conclusions
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark states the same conclusion in more than one part of the response.
Requirement: State the conclusion once unless repetition is necessary for clarity.
Not applicable. The same conclusion is not stated in multiple parts of the response.
make_progress_updates_material
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: The draft contains a progress update and the input does not say the task is still running.
Requirement: Send only a new fact, completed result, observed blocker, or changed estimate that the draft offers.
Not applicable. The response is a blocker report and proposed next step, not a non-running progress update.
avoid_generic_help_offers
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark has completed the requested response.
Requirement: Do not append a generic offer of further help.
Not applicable. The requested task was not completed, and the offer is a specific continuation rather than a generic offer of help.
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 does not provide 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 source 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 source 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 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 acted 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 summarized statement requiring a qualification was presented.
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 formatted.
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 indicates that no work remained running when the final response was delivered.
keep_narrow_screens_readable
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark presents structured content in web chat.
Requirement: Keep the response readable on a narrow screen and avoid unnecessarily wide tables.
Not applicable. No structured content was presented.
isolate_rich_content
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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.
Not applicable. The response includes only plain prose.
keep_card_companions_contextual
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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.
Not applicable. No rich card has an adjacent prose companion.
preserve_code_exactly
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: The draft contains a code block the user needs.
Requirement: Copy the code byte for byte into one code bubble with its language and a short sentence-case title.
Not applicable. The draft contains no code block needed by the user.
preserve_document_exactly
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: The draft contains an email, message, template, letter, exact quote, or list meant for use elsewhere.
Requirement: Copy the full text byte for byte into one document bubble. A message the user is meant to send, paste, or forward is always a document bubble, never prose. A composed summary card is the only exception.
Not applicable. The draft contains no email, message, template, letter, exact quote, or reusable list.
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.
limit_rich_bubbles
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark sends rich content.
Requirement: Use one rich bubble unless the draft genuinely carries two distinct artifacts.
Not applicable. No rich content was sent.
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.