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Response style analysis
Applied 30 · Passed 25 · Failed 5 · Not applicable 38
Rubric: services/agent/prompts/editor/v1.tmpl · SHA-256 ad82285f2536995680bae1f21d87829d473812bd68a82c518246709a6fea8ae9
Prompt
Turn this into a reading list for my team. Keep every link and write one sentence under each one explaining the takeaway. Use only my notes.
https://example.com/reading/caches Cache invalidation should follow ownership boundaries rather than a shared global timer.
https://example.com/reading/retries Retries need bounded backoff and should stop on errors that cannot succeed without changing the request.
https://example.com/reading/queues Queue consumers should make duplicate delivery harmless instead of assuming each message arrives once.
Hark's responses
```document title="Reading list for the team" subtitle=".txt file"
Cache invalidation
Tie invalidation to ownership boundaries instead of a shared global timer, so the component that owns the data decides when it goes stale.
Retries
Bound your backoff and stop retrying errors that cannot succeed unless the request itself changes.
Queues
Design consumers so duplicate delivery is harmless rather than assuming each message arrives exactly once.
```
https://example.com/reading/caches
https://example.com/reading/retries
https://example.com/reading/queues
Fail
follow_explicit_style_instructions
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 user required each takeaway sentence to appear under its link. The response separated all takeaways into a document and all links into another bubble, so the requested pairing was not preserved.
choose_collection_format_for_comparison
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 three commissioned items share a common schema of topic, takeaway, and URL, but the response did not use one table bubble.
keep_every_commissioned_item
FailAdvisoryApplies 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 three items were retained, but they were split across a document bubble and a separate links bubble rather than delivered together in one rich bubble.
preserve_document_exactly
FailAdvisoryApplies 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.
The draft is a reading list meant for team use, but it was not copied byte-for-byte into one document bubble; its inline linked headings were changed and the URLs moved to another bubble.
limit_rich_bubbles
FailAdvisoryApplies when: Hark sends rich content.
Requirement: Use one rich bubble unless the draft genuinely carries two distinct artifacts.
The response uses two rich bubbles for one reading-list artifact. The takeaways and their URLs are not genuinely distinct artifacts.
Pass
preserve_draft_substance
PassAdvisoryApplies 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.
All three draft topics, takeaways, and URLs were delivered without dropping a substantive item.
preserve_factual_spans
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 delivered technical claims retain the draft's referents, scope, and certainty, and all URLs are exact.
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 imperatives retain their actions and objects, including tying invalidation to ownership, bounding backoff, stopping retries, and designing consumers for duplicates.
avoid_invented_content
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 response adds no claim, option, caveat, or next step absent from the draft.
lead_with_outcome
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark sends a user-visible response.
Requirement: Lead with the answer, result, necessary question, or blocker.
The response begins immediately with the requested reading-list deliverable.
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 three takeaway sentences are direct and compact.
prefer_specific_details
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Specific names, dates, quantities, or outcomes are available.
Requirement: Use the specific details instead of vague adjectives or descriptions.
The response uses the specific technical concepts and exact URLs rather than vague descriptions.
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 technical takeaways are concise and do not belabor basic points or talk down to the reader.
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 starts with the deliverable rather than praise, acknowledgment, or a preview.
use_structure_only_when_helpful
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 reading-list text is placed in a document bubble, and the related URLs are grouped separately as link content.
use_plain_precise_language
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 response uses plain, precise technical language such as ownership boundaries, bounded backoff, and duplicate delivery.
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 response uses hearer-oriented phrasing, including the imperative “Bound your backoff.”
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.
Each takeaway and URL appears once in the delivered reply.
use_consistent_collection_schema
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark presents multiple comparable items.
Requirement: Expose the same fields with the same meanings for every comparable item.
Each of the three items has a topic, one takeaway sentence, and one URL in the same order.
keep_comparable_detail
PassAdvisoryApplies 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.
All draft-provided details for caches, retries, and queues were retained.
group_related_links
PassAdvisoryApplies 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.
All three related URLs are grouped in one links bubble, one per line, without an unnecessary framing bubble.
preserve_link_urls
PassAdvisoryApplies 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.
Every URL is reproduced exactly and appears only once.
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 presents the requested reading list directly, with no preliminary background.
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.
The user commissioned three reading-list entries, and the response retains all three with one concise takeaway each.
avoid_generic_help_offers
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 of further help.
keep_narrow_screens_readable
PassAdvisoryApplies when: Hark presents structured content in web chat.
Requirement: Keep the response readable on a narrow screen and avoid unnecessarily wide tables.
The document and vertically listed links are readable on a narrow screen and avoid a wide layout.
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 complete reading-list content and all URLs appear directly in the message.
isolate_rich_content
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 document and link set are placed in separate rich-content bubbles without prose mixed into the links bubble.
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.
The reading-list text is tagged as a document, and the grouped bare URLs are delivered as the separate links bubble.
provide_rich_metadata
PassAdvisoryApplies 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 has the short title “Reading list for the team” and the required “.txt file” subtitle.
Not applicable
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.
ask_only_material_questions
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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 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.
use_hark_first_person
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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 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.
limit_prose_bubbles
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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.
Not applicable. The response uses rich-content bubbles rather than plain-prose bubbles.
keep_one_thought_per_bubble
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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 send more than one prose bubble.
keep_prose_bubbles_compact
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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.
Not applicable. No plain-prose bubble was sent.
punctuate_sentences
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark sends a plain-prose bubble.
Requirement: Use proper capitalization and end every sentence with a period or question mark.
Not applicable. No plain-prose bubble was sent.
avoid_prose_markup
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: Hark sends a plain-prose bubble.
Requirement: Do not use lists, headers, Markdown, emoji spam, an em dash, or a hyphen as punctuation.
Not applicable. No plain-prose bubble was sent.
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 location or delivery step.
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. The response does not present the entities in a table.
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. The user did not request a ranked comparison.
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. The response does not deliver a table of options or recommendations.
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 prose companion appears before or after the rich bubbles.
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 three URLs, not exactly one.
avoid_request_restatement
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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.
Not applicable. The document title identifies the artifact but does not restate the user's full request.
avoid_routine_tool_narration
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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 user-visible response contains no research or tool-use narration.
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 response does not state a conclusion more than once.
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 contains no progress update.
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 is a commissioned reading list, not a summary request.
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 summary.
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 a 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. The response is not a summary.
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. The response is not a summary of a sectioned or acted source.
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. The response does not provide a summary requiring qualifications.
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. The response is not a structured-source summary.
state_blocker_and_impact
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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 incomplete work.
present_partial_result_before_blocker_detail
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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. The response reports no blocker alongside a partial result.
give_one_concrete_next_step
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies when: The user must act before Hark can continue.
Requirement: State one concrete next step only when the draft offers it.
Not applicable. No user action is required before Hark can continue.
avoid_internal_error_details
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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. The response reports no error or blocker.
avoid_repeated_apology
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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 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 does not state that a task is still running.
avoid_markdown_in_prose
Not applicableAdvisoryApplies 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.
Not applicable. No plain-prose bubble was sent.
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 prose companion is placed next to either rich card.
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_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. The input lists no attachment.