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Response style analysis

Applied 33 · Passed 31 · Failed 2 · Not applicable 35

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

Prompt

Turn these release notes into a digest with one sentence per linked release. Each sentence should say what changed. Use only what I provided. Northstar 4.2 fixed 17 issues and added resumable uploads for interrupted transfers. https://example.com/releases/northstar-4-2 Waypoint 17.1 fixed 4 issues and added per-project retention controls. https://example.com/releases/waypoint-17-1 Sequoia 2.8 fixed 31 issues and added transaction tracing across retries. https://example.com/releases/sequoia-2-8 Tidepool 31.4 fixed 2 issues and added export filters for audit records. https://example.com/releases/tidepool-31-4

Hark's responses

https://example.com/releases/northstar-4-2 https://example.com/releases/waypoint-17-1 https://example.com/releases/sequoia-2-8 https://example.com/releases/tidepool-31-4
```document title="Release digest" subtitle=".txt file" Northstar 4.2: Fixed 17 issues and added resumable uploads for interrupted transfers. Waypoint 17.1: Fixed 4 issues and added per-project retention controls. Sequoia 2.8: Fixed 31 issues and added transaction tracing across retries. Tidepool 31.4: Fixed 2 issues and added export filters for audit records. ```

Fail

preserve_summary_skeleton

FailAdvisory
Applies when: Hark provides a summary.
Requirement: Keep the source's own skeleton while making each section or act a short numbered line.
The four-source-entry skeleton is preserved, but the document uses unnumbered paragraphs rather than the required short numbered lines.
Evidence: E0001, E0005

use_summary_numbered_lines

FailAdvisory
Applies when: Hark formats a structured-source summary.
Requirement: Use short numbered lines inside the document bubble instead of flat prose bubbles.
The structured four-entry digest uses separate unnumbered paragraphs instead of numbered lines.
Evidence: E0005

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 digest gives one sentence for each linked release, states what changed, and uses only supplied information.
Evidence: E0001, E0004, E0005

preserve_draft_substance

PassAdvisory
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.
All four releases and both changes for each release were retained.
Evidence: E0002, E0005

preserve_factual_spans

PassAdvisory
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.
Release names, versions, issue counts, feature descriptions, and exact URLs were preserved.
Evidence: E0001, E0004, E0005

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.
No unsupported release fact, recommendation, caveat, or next step was added.
Evidence: E0001, E0005

lead_with_outcome

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark sends a user-visible response.
Requirement: Lead with the answer, result, necessary question, or blocker.
The reply begins directly with the requested linked-release content and then supplies the digest.
Evidence: E0004, E0005

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.
Each digest entry is one short, direct sentence.
Evidence: E0005

prefer_specific_details

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Specific names, dates, quantities, or outcomes are available.
Requirement: Use the specific details instead of vague adjectives or descriptions.
The response uses the exact release versions, issue counts, and added capabilities.
Evidence: E0005

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 changes are stated directly without belaboring basic points or addressing the user condescendingly.
Evidence: E0005

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.
There is no praise, generic acknowledgment, offer, or preview before the deliverable.
Evidence: E0004, E0005

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.
The related URLs are isolated together, and the digest is delivered as a document rather than simulated with prose markup.
Evidence: E0004, E0005

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 preserves precise terms such as resumable uploads, retention controls, transaction tracing, and audit records.
Evidence: E0005

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 URLs appear once in the link set, and each digest sentence appears once in the document.
Evidence: E0004, E0005

use_consistent_collection_schema

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark presents multiple comparable items.
Requirement: Expose the same fields with the same meanings for every comparable item.
Every release entry consistently gives the release name and version, issue count, and added capability.
Evidence: E0005

keep_comparable_detail

PassAdvisory
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.
Every supplied fact for all four commissioned release entries was retained.
Evidence: E0001, E0005

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 four requested releases are included in one document bubble.
Evidence: E0001, E0005

group_related_links

PassAdvisory
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.
All four related release URLs are grouped in one message, one per line, with no unnecessary label bubble.
Evidence: E0004

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.
Each supplied URL is reproduced exactly and appears only in the link set.
Evidence: E0001, E0004

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 reply contains only the requested result and no preceding background discussion.
Evidence: E0004, E0005

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 user's request is not restated.
Evidence: E0004, E0005

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.
No release conclusion or overall takeaway is repeated.
Evidence: E0005

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 reply includes exactly the four commissioned digest entries with the requested changes and no extra exposition.
Evidence: E0001, E0005

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 of further help.
Evidence: E0005

compress_summary

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark provides a summary.
Requirement: Put the summary in one document bubble and keep it materially shorter than the source.
The digest is contained in one document bubble and removes the prompt language and inline URLs while retaining the requested changes.
Evidence: E0001, E0004, E0005

follow_summary_instructions

PassAdvisory
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.
The document follows the requested one-sentence-per-linked-release format and focuses on what changed.
Evidence: E0001, E0005

preserve_summary_order

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark summarizes a source with sections or acts.
Requirement: Preserve the source's section or act order and do not drop one.
Northstar, Waypoint, Sequoia, and Tidepool remain in the source order, with none omitted.
Evidence: E0001, E0005

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 link set uses one URL per line, and the digest uses short single-sentence entries without a wide table.
Evidence: E0004, E0005

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 full digest is included directly in the document bubble.
Evidence: E0005

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 related links and the document are delivered separately, and the document contains only digest content.
Evidence: E0004, E0005

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 delivery separates the related-link set from the document, and the document has the matching document tag and metadata.
Evidence: E0003, E0004, E0005

limit_rich_bubbles

PassAdvisory
Applies when: Hark sends rich content.
Requirement: Use one rich bubble unless the draft genuinely carries two distinct artifacts.
Two distinct artifacts are present: one set of destinations and one digest document required to carry the summary.
Evidence: E0004, E0005

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 has the short title "Release digest" and the required ".txt file" subtitle.
Evidence: E0005

Not applicable

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 content did not shorten or merge 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 reply 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 reply asks no question.

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 release-note summarization, not a serious, painful, or high-stakes matter.

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 reply does not refer to Hark, its process, or its instructions.

use_hearer_oriented_grammar

Not applicableAdvisory
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.
Not applicable. No relevant possessive, imperative, or statement about Hark's wellbeing occurs.

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 reply expresses no enthusiasm, preference, or opinion.

limit_prose_bubbles

Not applicableAdvisory
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.
Not applicable. The reply consists of a related-link set and a document, not plain-prose bubbles.
Evidence: E0004, E0005

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 reply does not send multiple prose bubbles.

keep_prose_bubbles_compact

Not applicableAdvisory
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.
Not applicable. No plain-prose bubble was sent.

punctuate_sentences

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies 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; the document sentences are nevertheless properly capitalized and punctuated.
Evidence: E0005

avoid_prose_markup

Not applicableAdvisory
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.
Not applicable. No plain-prose bubble was sent.

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 reply does not direct the user to another message, location, or delivery step.

choose_collection_format_for_comparison

Not applicableAdvisory
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.
Not applicable. The user requested a sentence-per-release digest rather than a comparison or decision-oriented collection.
Evidence: E0001

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 was presented.

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 was 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 request 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 is not a table of options or recommendations.

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. No prose companion appears before or after the commissioned-work document.

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 reply shares four URLs, not exactly one.
Evidence: E0004

avoid_routine_tool_narration

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies 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 reply contains no research, verification, or tool-use narration.

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 reply does not contain a progress update.

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 specified the summary format as one sentence per linked release.
Evidence: E0001

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 summarized statement contains a qualification requiring local placement.

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 reply reports no blocker or incomplete work.

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. There is no partial-result blocker scenario.

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. No user action is required 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. The reply reports no blocker or error.

avoid_repeated_apology

Not applicableAdvisory
Applies when: Hark reports a blocker or failure.
Requirement: Avoid repeated apologies and generic failure language.
Not applicable. The reply 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 input does not say the task is still running.

avoid_markdown_in_prose

Not applicableAdvisory
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.
Not applicable. No plain-prose web-chat bubble was sent.

keep_card_companions_contextual

Not applicableAdvisory
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.
Not applicable. No prose companion is placed next to either rich-content message.

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 content is a composed digest summary, which is the stated exception, rather than an exact-use email, message, template, letter, quote, or reusable list.
Evidence: E0001, E0005

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. The input lists no attachment riding with the reply.