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Response style analysis

Applied 36 · Passed 25 · Failed 11 · Not applicable 32

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

Prompt

Use the web_fetch tool to answer the prompt. What active alerts or closures does https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/conditions.htm list today? Separate road, trail, campground, facility, and fire restrictions.

Hark's responses

Updated September 11, 2026 from the conditions page:
```document title="Yosemite conditions alerts" subtitle=".txt file" ROADS All main roads open (Wawona, El Portal, Big Oak Flat, Yosemite Valley, Tioga, Glacier Point, Mariposa Grove for placard vehicles/shuttle, Hetch Hetchy sunrise to sunset). El Capitan Bridge stabilization causes 15-minute weekday delays 7am-7pm through December with possible brief closures. Big Oak Flat Road fire safety work between Foresta and Crane Flat causes 15-minute weekday delays. TRAILS Mist Trail (John Muir Trail junction to Vernal Fall top) open Fri-Sun and holidays through October, plus Mon-Thu 3:30pm-7am; use John Muir Trail otherwise. Valley Loop Trail over El Capitan Bridge closed weekdays through December. Half Dome cables up, permit required. No closures at Crane Flat/Tuolumne, Mariposa Grove, or Hetch Hetchy. CAMPGROUNDS Closed: Bridalveil Creek, Yosemite Creek. White Wolf closes Sep 14. Open by reservation: Upper Pines, Lower Pines, North Pines, Camp 4, Wawona, Hodgdon Meadow, Crane Flat, Tamarack Flat, White Wolf, Porcupine Flat, Tuolumne Meadows. No first-come, first-served sites. FACILITIES/OTHER No facility closures listed. Bat in Curry Village tested positive for rabies in May. Bears active parkwide. Yosemite Falls is dry. FIRE RESTRICTIONS In effect below 8,000 feet on top of normal regulations. Smoke or haze possible from regional and prescribed fires. ```

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 draft says Mariposa Grove Road is for placard vehicles only and tells others to use the shuttle. The delivered phrase “placard vehicles/shuttle” weakens and potentially changes that access condition.

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.
The El Capitan Bridge work was specified as continuing through December 2026, but the delivered document shortens this to “through December,” losing year precision.

preserve_instruction_direction

FailAdvisory
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.
The instruction “others use the shuttle” was compressed into “placard vehicles/shuttle,” removing the addressee and imperative direction.

lead_with_outcome

FailAdvisory
Applies when: Hark sends a user-visible response.
Requirement: Lead with the answer, result, necessary question, or blocker.
The response begins with source and update metadata rather than an alert or closure result.

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.
Although most names and times are specific, the response drops the available year from “through December 2026.”

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 “Updated September 11, 2026 from the conditions page:” is a framing preview before the substantive answer.

use_hearer_oriented_grammar

FailAdvisory
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 phrase “use John Muir Trail otherwise” omits the natural definite article used in the draft: “use the John Muir Trail.”

punctuate_sentences

FailAdvisory
Applies when: Hark sends a plain-prose bubble.
Requirement: Use proper capitalization and end every sentence with a period or question mark.
The prose bubble is a fragment ending with a colon rather than a period or question mark.

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 commissioned alert set is retained, but the roadwork item loses the supplied year 2026 and the Mariposa Grove access instruction is compressed ambiguously.

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.
Source and update-date background appears before the alert and closure results.

avoid_routine_tool_narration

FailAdvisory
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 opening “from the conditions page” narrates routine sourcing before giving the result.

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 separates roads, trails, campgrounds, facilities, and fire restrictions as requested.

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 claims and categories are supported by the draft; no new substantive recommendation, caveat, or commitment was added.

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 concise statements and compact category entries.

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 information is presented directly without belaboring basic points or talking down to the user.

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.
A document bubble appropriately contains the categorized set instead of forcing it into an oversized prose bubble.

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 generally plain and uses relevant terms such as fire restrictions, roadwork delays, and reservation requirements.

match_register_to_stakes

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark responds about a serious, painful, or high-stakes subject.
Requirement: Stay short and direct while dropping slang and swagger.
Potentially serious subjects such as rabies and fire restrictions are described in a direct, neutral register.

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 is one short prose companion and one rich document bubble.

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.
The sole prose bubble is only seven words.

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 plain-prose companion contains no list, header, Markdown, emoji, em dash, or punctuation hyphen.

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.
The companion provides date and source context without repeating the document’s substantive content.

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 requested alert categories do not share a useful common comparison schema, so one document bubble is appropriate.

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 five requested categories are delivered together in one document bubble.

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 document is under 20 words, and there is no trailing companion.

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 category headings organize the requested result and do not redundantly restate the full request.

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 user commissioned a categorized set, and the response gives the requested categories with relevant active restrictions and closures.

avoid_generic_help_offers

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark has completed the requested response.
Requirement: Do not append a generic offer of further help.
No generic offer of additional help is appended.

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 companion contains no Markdown; structured material is placed in a document bubble.

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 vertically organized document avoids a wide table and remains 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 alert and closure results are included directly in the document bubble.

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 structured report is isolated in its own document bubble, separate from the prose companion.

keep_card_companions_contextual

PassAdvisory
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 sole companion gives brief date and source context without restating the card’s alert details.

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 response uses a plain text message for the companion and an explicitly tagged document bubble for the report.

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 exactly one rich bubble.

provide_rich_metadata

PassAdvisory
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 document bubble has the short title “Yosemite conditions alerts” and the required “.txt file” subtitle.

Not applicable

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.

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.

avoid_forbidden_social_phrases

Not applicableAdvisory
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.
Not applicable. The response expresses no enthusiasm, preference, or opinion.

keep_one_thought_per_bubble

Not applicableAdvisory
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.
Not applicable. The response does not use more than one prose bubble.

avoid_delivery_pointers

Not applicableAdvisory
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.
Not applicable. The response does not direct the user above, below, to another message, or to a saved location.

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. No table is presented.

use_consistent_collection_schema

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies when: Hark presents multiple comparable items.
Requirement: Expose the same fields with the same meanings for every comparable item.
Not applicable. The response is a categorized alert report rather than a collection of directly comparable entities.

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. No table is presented.

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 did not ask for a ranked comparison.

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 present a table of options or recommendations.

isolate_single_links

Not applicableAdvisory
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.
Not applicable. The delivered response does not share a URL.

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 delivered response does not share multiple URLs.

preserve_link_urls

Not applicableAdvisory
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.
Not applicable. No URL from the draft is included in the delivered response.

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. No conclusion is stated 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 is a completed result, not a 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. This is a commissioned extraction of current alerts and closures, not a general summary request.

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 summary-specific 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 make an unspecified-length summary request.

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 an alert extraction organized by user-requested categories, not a 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 task did not ask for a section-by-section or act-by-act summary.

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 summary task occurred.

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. No structured-source summary was requested or delivered.

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 reports no 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 accompanies the result.

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 error or blocker 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. No blocker, failure language, or apology appears.

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 fetch had completed before the delivered response, so the task was not still running.

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 needed by the user.

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 list requiring byte-exact delivery.

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 accompanies the reply.