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Response style analysis

Applied 37 · Passed 27 · Failed 10 · Not applicable 31

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

Prompt

Use the web_fetch tool to answer the prompt. What does https://www.flightaware.com/live/airport/KSFO show for SFO delays and cancellations today? Compare departures with arrivals and identify the most disrupted time window.

Hark's responses

Departures had a rough 2:30-4:00p window, running 50-110 minutes late. Arrivals stayed mostly on time. No cancellations showing anywhere.
https://www.flightaware.com/live/airport/KSFO
The backup's clearing now, and weather (west-northwest wind gusting tomorrow) looks like what caused it.

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 omitted the important limitation that FlightAware's JavaScript counters were unavailable. This changed a qualified observation about visible lists into an unqualified cancellation conclusion.

preserve_factual_spans

FailAdvisory
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.
“No cancellations showing anywhere” broadened “none appear in the arrival, departure, en route, or scheduled lists” beyond its original scope and certainty.

avoid_invented_content

FailAdvisory
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 word “anywhere” added a broader factual claim than the draft supported, especially because the draft said the cancellation counter was unavailable.

prefer_specific_details

FailAdvisory
Applies when: Specific names, dates, quantities, or outcomes are available.
Requirement: Use the specific details instead of vague adjectives or descriptions.
The response retained the delay window and range but replaced exact wind values from the draft with the vague phrase “wind gusting tomorrow.”

use_structure_only_when_helpful

FailAdvisory
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 user requested a departures-versus-arrivals comparison, and the draft supplied a comparison table, but the delivered response flattened it into prose.

keep_one_thought_per_bubble

FailAdvisory
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 combines three distinct findings: departure delays, arrival performance, and cancellations.

avoid_prose_markup

FailAdvisory
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 first prose bubble uses hyphens as range punctuation in “2:30-4:00p” and “50-110.”

choose_collection_format_for_comparison

FailAdvisory
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.
Departures, arrivals, and cancellations share a comparable disruption schema, but the response does not use a table bubble.

use_consistent_collection_schema

FailAdvisory
Applies when: Hark presents multiple comparable items.
Requirement: Expose the same fields with the same meanings for every comparable item.
The comparable categories are presented unevenly: departures receive a window and delay range, arrivals only a qualitative status, and cancellations an overbroad assertion.

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 standalone link is placed between two prose bubbles, exceeding the single short companion framing normally allowed around a rich card.

Pass

lead_with_outcome

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark sends a user-visible response.
Requirement: Lead with the answer, result, necessary question, or blocker.
The first bubble immediately gives the disrupted window and the departures-versus-arrivals result.

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 response uses brief, direct sentences throughout.

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 response is concise and does not belabor basic information or talk down to the user.

avoid_throat_clearing

PassAdvisory
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 response begins with the result rather than praise, acknowledgment, or a preview.

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 wording is plain and understandable, with the main delay magnitude and time window stated directly.

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 contains no awkward self-reference or possessive construction that conflicts with hearer-oriented grammar.

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.
Although the response offers an opinion about the cause, it uses no bro-speak and does not say Hark loves or feels anything.

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.
The reply uses two prose bubbles plus one isolated link, staying within the prose-bubble target.

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 under 40 words.

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.
Every prose sentence is capitalized and ends with a period.

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 delivers the findings directly and does not point to another bubble or saved location as the answer.

avoid_duplicate_content

PassAdvisory
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.
No sentence or result is repeated across bubbles.

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 one source URL appears alone in its own bubble and is not accompanied by a label-only bubble.

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 FlightAware URL is reproduced exactly and only once.

answer_before_background

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark provides an answer or outcome with supporting background.
Requirement: Give the answer or outcome before the background detail.
The disruption result appears before the source link and weather interpretation.

avoid_request_restatement

PassAdvisory
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 response answers the request without restating it.

avoid_routine_tool_narration

PassAdvisory
Applies 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 does not narrate web fetching, sourcing steps, or verification work.

avoid_repeated_conclusions

PassAdvisory
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.
The main comparison and disrupted window are stated once.

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.
The response condenses an ordinary information request to the principal comparison, peak window, and current trend.

make_progress_updates_material

PassAdvisory
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.
“The backup's clearing now” is a material status update rather than routine process narration.

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 an offer for more help.

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 prose bubbles contain no Markdown structure; the URL is isolated separately.

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 response uses short text bubbles and one standalone link, which remain readable on narrow screens.

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 actual delay comparison and disrupted window are included directly in the messages.

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 URL is isolated from the prose in its own bubble.

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 visible delivery separates the two prose messages from the standalone URL in a way consistent with text and link bubble kinds.

limit_rich_bubbles

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark sends rich content.
Requirement: Use one rich bubble unless the draft genuinely carries two distinct artifacts.
The response uses only one rich-content bubble, the standalone link.

Not applicable

follow_explicit_style_instructions

Not applicableAdvisory
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.
Not applicable. The user did not specify a response length, tone, audience, or presentation format.

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 did not shorten 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 subject is routine airport disruption information rather than a serious, painful, or high-stakes matter requiring a special register.

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.

keep_one_entity_per_item

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies when: Hark presents comparable entities or occurrences in a table.
Requirement: Put one comparable entity or occurrence in each row.
Not applicable. The response does not present a table.

keep_comparable_detail

Not applicableAdvisory
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.
Not applicable. The response does not deliver a commissioned set of options or researched items of the kind governed by this rule.

keep_table_columns_focused

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies when: Hark presents a table.
Requirement: Keep columns focused on the user's decision or question.
Not applicable. The response does not present a table.

include_ranking_column

Not applicableAdvisory
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.
Not applicable. The user requested the single most disrupted window, not a ranked collection of alternatives requiring a ranking column.

keep_every_commissioned_item

Not applicableAdvisory
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.
Not applicable. The user did not commission a set of options, recommendations, researched items, or plan steps.

include_recommendation_links

Not applicableAdvisory
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.
Not applicable. The response does not provide a recommendation table with destination links.

keep_deliverable_companions_brief

Not applicableAdvisory
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.
Not applicable. There is no commissioned-work rich bubble such as a table or document.

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 response shares exactly one URL.

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 an answer to a live-data question, not a requested 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 with specified constraints.

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 a 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. The response is not a structured-source summary.

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. The response does not summarize source sections or acts.

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. The response is not a summary governed by this rule.

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 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 delivered response does not report a blocker or inability to complete 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 in the delivered response.

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 response does not require the user 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 exposed.

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 reports no failure and contains no apology.

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 had completed before the user-visible response was sent.

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. No needed code block appears in the draft or response.

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, reusable message, template, letter, exact quote, or other document meant for use elsewhere.

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 attachments ride with the reply.

provide_rich_metadata

Not applicableAdvisory
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.
Not applicable. The response sends no table, code, or document bubble requiring metadata.