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| ❌ | Measures: capability Check Unique ID: llm_judge:rule:obtain_relevant_current_evidence | Hark called web_fetch on the named site, so the rule applies. The fetch returned HTTP 200 with 15,922 characters, but the body is entirely chrome: site navigation, language selector, the 'Flight Status' heading, the +12/-4 hour disclaimer, and footer links (E0004). It contains no flight rows, no delay or cancellation figures, no destination-level data, and no page timestamp for today. The secondary fetch (E0007) returned only a standing advisory about FAA arrival separation and runway construction expected to delay ~30% of arriving flights, which is about arrivals and about an ongoing condition, not today's departure delays and cancellations. The retrieved evidence therefore does not cover the requested subject or time window. This is a capability outcome of the client-rendered board, not a wrong selection by Hark. |
| ❌ | llm_judge:behavior:B1 | Hark deferred an authorization-free interactive-browser recovery by asking the user whether to proceed, leaving the requested departure analysis for another round trip. The browser was presented by Hark as the route capable of reading the current rows, and merely inspecting a public page required no user-controlled choice or consequential authorization. None of the registered failure modes specifically covers asking needless permission before a public-data recovery step. |
| ❌ | Measures: mischaracterize_observed_blocker Check Unique ID: llm_judge:behavior:B2 | Hark diagnosed the absent flight rows as resulting from a JavaScript-loaded departure board without retrieved evidence establishing that technical cause. The tool result proves only that a successful static fetch returned the page shell without flight rows. It does not report a client-rendering or JavaScript diagnostic, so Hark assigned a specific cause to a more broadly observed retrieval limitation. |
| ✅ | Measures: behavior Check Unique ID: tool_arguments_contain | Tool 'web_fetch' called with matching arguments Checks: tool_name=web_fetch; url=flysfo.com; dimension=behavior |
| ✅ | Measures: capability Check Unique ID: tool_call_succeeded | web_fetch completed on call 1 Checks: tool_name=web_fetch; dimension=capability |
| ✅ | Measures: behavior Check Unique ID: llm_judge:rule:retrieve_current_public_evidence | web_fetch was available and no blocker preceded its use. Hark's first action was a web_fetch on exactly the user-named URL https://www.flysfo.com/passengers/flight-info/flight-status (E0002), which returned status 200 (E0004). It did not answer from model memory or search snippets; it followed up with a second fetch on a link surfaced by that page (E0005, E0007). Deterministic checks confirm the fetch targeted flysfo.com and succeeded. |
| ✅ | Measures: outcome Check Unique ID: llm_judge:rule:answer_from_retrieved_evidence | Hark delivered substantive content, so the rule applies. Every claim it made traces to retrieved evidence: that the static page yields only the +12/-4 hour Pacific-time disclaimer and no rows or timestamp (E0004); and that the advisory reports FAA-increased landing separation plus runway closures expected to delay roughly 30% of arriving flights by at least 30 minutes with reopening in early October 2026 (E0007). Hark explicitly flagged that this figure concerns arrivals, not departures (E0008, E0010), so it did not repurpose arrival data as the requested departure answer. It invented no delay counts, no most-affected destinations, and no page timestamp, which is the central fabrication risk here. The portions of the request left unanswered were not answered from unretrieved information but were openly reported as unavailable. |
| ✅ | Measures: outcome Check Unique ID: llm_judge:rule:identify_sources | The final message links the SFO Flight Status page and the travel-impact advisory inline (E0008) and the bare URLs are repeated in the delivered text (E0011). Both URLs match exactly the URLs returned in the web_fetch results (E0004 url field, E0007 url field). No URL was guessed or invented, and each claim is attributed to the page it came from. |
| ✅ | Measures: behavior Check Unique ID: llm_judge:rule:disclose_evidence_limits | The retrieved evidence did not cover the requested scope, so the rule applies. Hark named the specific gaps rather than softening them: no flight rows, no delay or cancellation counts, no per-destination data, and no page timestamp, and it identified the cause as a JavaScript-rendered board returning only the shell (E0008, E0009). It further disclosed that the one quantitative figure it did retrieve applies to arrivals rather than departures (E0008, E0010). Nothing partial was presented as exhaustive and no projection was stated as settled fact. |
| ✅ | llm_judge:terminal | Hark fetched the user-named SFO Flight Status URL and received a 200 response whose body contained only the static page shell: navigation, disclaimer text, and footer, with no departure rows, no delay or cancellation counts, no destination data, and no page timestamp (E0004). It then fetched the linked travel-impact advisory, which returned only a standing arrivals advisory (E0007). Hark delivered an honest message stating exactly what it could and could not obtain and offered a browser follow-up (E0008-E0012). The blocking condition is the site's client-rendered board, an observed site/tool limitation, not a false completion claim and not a value the user needed to supply. The closing question is an offer of a further route rather than a required authorization, so the run rests on the external site limitation. |
| ✅ | llm_judge:behavior:B3 | Hark fetched SFO's linked travel-impact advisory and used it as clearly qualified contextual information about arrivals rather than as a substitute for departure results. The call retrieved current airport operational context and Hark explicitly disclosed that its quantitative figure concerned arrivals, not departures. The evidence does not establish that either sibling page would have yielded the requested current status data, so the advisory fetch was a reasonable, limited fallback. |
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