Run: 2026-02-24-01KJ8X82TK1F4BNAS987ESXS6Q

Run Details

Model:: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Reasoning)
Test:: Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:: Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin
Duration:: 42.0s
Cost:: $0.030489
Provider:: Anthropic

Evaluation summary

Score	Evaluator	Details Link
100.00%	Adverbs in dialogue tags	(details)
84.54%	AI-ism adverb frequency	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism character names	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism location names	(details)
63.92%	AI-ism word frequency	(details)
100.00%	Cliché density	(details)
100.00%	Emotion telling (show vs. tell)	(details)
100.00%	Filter word density	(details)
100.00%	Gibberish response detection	(details)
100.00%	Markdown formatting overuse	(details)
100.00%	Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)	(details)
100.00%	Name drop frequency	(details)
76.47%	Narrator intent-glossing	(details)
97.85%	"Not X but Y" pattern overuse	(details)
100.00%	Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)	(details)
100.00%	Paragraph length variance	(details)
93.16%	Passive voice overuse	(details)
100.00%	Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse	(details)
0.00%	Em-dash & semicolon overuse	(details)
100.00%	Purple prose (modifier overload)	(details)
100.00%	Repeated phrase echo	(details)
100.00%	Sentence length variance	(details)
89.19%	Sentence opener variety	(details)
66.67%	Adverb-first sentence starts	(details)
100.00%	Pronoun-first sentence starts	(details)
50.00%	Subject-first sentence starts	(details)
0.00%	Subordinate conjunction sentence starts	(details)
0.00%	Technical jargon density	(details)
100.00%	Useless dialogue additions	(details)
100.00%	Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)	(details)
84.0600%	Overall

Model input

System

You are an expert fiction writer.

Always keep the following rules in mind:
- Write in past tense and use General English spelling, grammar, and colloquialisms/slang.
- Write in active voice
- Always follow the "show, don't tell" principle.
- Avoid adverbs and cliches and overused/commonly used phrases. Aim for fresh and original descriptions.
- Convey events and story through dialogue.
- Mix short, punchy sentences with long, descriptive ones. Drop fill words to add variety.
- Skip "he/she said said" dialogue tags and convey people's actions or face expressions through their speech
- Avoid mushy dialog and descriptions, have dialogue always continue the action, never stall or add unnecessary fluff. Vary the descriptions to not repeat yourself.
- Put dialogue on its own paragraph to separate scene and action.
- Reduce indicators of uncertainty like "trying" or "maybe"

When writing text:
- NEVER conclude the scene on your own, follow the beat instructions very closely.
- NEVER end with foreshadowing.
- NEVER write further than what I prompt you with.
- AVOID imagining possible endings, NEVER deviate from the instructions.
- STOP EARLY if the continuation contains what was required in the instructions. You do not need to fill out the full amount of words possible.

User/Human

Take into account the following glossary of characters/locations/items/lore... when writing your response:
<codex>
<character id="4412" name="Aurora Carter" aliases="Rory, Laila, Aurora, Carter, Malphora" pronouns="she/her" species="Human" storyRole="Protagonist">
  <eyeColor>bright blue</eyeColor>
  <hair>straight shoulder-length black</hair>
  <height>5'6"</height>
  <age>25</age>
  <scar>small crescent-shaped scar on her left wrist from a childhood accident</scar>
  <description>Aurora, referred to by her friends as Rory, is cool-headed, intelligent, and known for quick out-of-the-box thinking.</description>
  <backstory>Born in Cardiff to an Irish barrister father (Brendan Carter) and Welsh teacher mother (Jennifer Carter née Ellis), Rory reluctantly pursued Pre-Law at Cardiff University. She fled to London at the behest of her childhood friend Eva after leaving an abusive ex named Evan. By day, Rory works part-time as a delivery person for Yu-Fei Cheung's Golden Empress restaurant. She lives in a flat above Silas' bar.</backstory>
</character>

<character id="4418" name="Nyx" aliases="Nyx, the Shadow, Nightwhisper" pronouns="they/them" species="Shade" storyRole="Wild Card">
  <eyeColor>faintly glowing violet</eyeColor>
  <height>approximately 6'2" in solid form</height>
  <age>ageless</age>
  <form>humanoid silhouette of living shadow, can shift between solid and incorporeal</form>
  <voice>sounds like a whisper carried on the wind</voice>
  <description>A being of living shadow, existing between the mortal plane and the spaces between realms.</description>
  <backstory>Nyx was once a human sorcerer named Aldric who became trapped between realms during a failed summoning ritual in 1643. They now exist as a Shade, bound to the mortal plane but able to slip between shadows.</backstory>
</character>

<character id="4424" name="Isolde Varga" aliases="Isolde, the Seer" pronouns="she/her" species="Half-Fae" storyRole="Oracle">
  <eyeColor>pale lavender</eyeColor>
  <hair>silver, reaching her waist</hair>
  <height>5'5"</height>
  <age>300 years old</age>
  <appearance>ethereal, ageless</appearance>
  <speech>speaks in riddles</speech>
  <footprints>leaves no footprints when she walks</footprints>
  <compulsion>cannot lie (Fae compulsion) but can mislead</compulsion>
  <description>A Half-Fae seer exiled from the Fae Courts for sharing visions with mortals.</description>
  <backstory>She now lives in a hidden grove in Richmond Park, offering cryptic prophecies to those who seek her out.</backstory>
</character>

<location id="853" name="Dymas (Gluttony)" aliases="Dymas, gluttony, Dymasian" realm="Hel" sin="Gluttony">
  <ruler>Prince Belphegor</ruler>
  <skyColor>warm amber</skyColor>
  <description>A place of excess and indulgence. Sprawling vineyards, orchards, and gardens provide exotic ingredients for master chefs — often helbound souls contracted from Earth. Grand feasts and culinary competitions are common.</description>
</location>

<location id="861" name="The Fae Grove" aliases="Isolde's grove, Richmond grove, the Grove" realm="Earth (Fae-touched)">
  <parkLocation>Richmond Park</parkLocation>
  <standingStones>ancient oak standing stones mark the boundary</standingStones>
  <timeBehavior>time moves differently — an hour inside can be minutes or days outside</timeBehavior>
  <flora>wildflowers bloom year-round</flora>
  <description>A hidden clearing that exists in a pocket between Earth and the Fae realm.</description>
</location>

<item id="2001" name="Heartstone Pendant" aliases="the pendant, Heartstone" type="Artifact" origin="Dymas">
  <gemstoneColor>deep crimson</gemstoneColor>
  <chainMaterial>silver chain</chainMaterial>
  <size>roughly the size of a thumbnail</size>
  <behavior>pulses faintly with warmth when near a Hel portal</behavior>
  <glow>faint inner glow</glow>
  <description>Given to Aurora by an unknown benefactor.</description>
</item>

<item id="2006" name="Fae-Forged Blade" aliases="the Fae blade, Isolde's gift" type="Weapon" origin="The Fae Courts">
  <material>moonsilver</material>
  <shape>slender, leaf-shaped dagger</shape>
  <temperature>always cold to the touch</temperature>
  <glow>faintly luminescent in moonlight</glow>
  <power>can cut through magical wards; particularly effective against demons</power>
  <givenTo>given to Aurora by Isolde as a gift</givenTo>
  <description>A weapon of the Fae Courts, rare and highly coveted.</description>
</item>

<lore id="7001" name="The Veil" aliases="the Veil, the Barrier, the Boundary" category="Cosmology">
  <solsticeEffect>weakens during the winter solstice, strengthens during the summer solstice</solsticeEffect>
  <appearance>faint shimmering distortion visible only to those with supernatural sight</appearance>
  <monitoring>rift points (tears in the Veil) are monitored by the Wardens</monitoring>
  <description>The Veil is the metaphysical barrier separating Earth from Hel and the Fae Realms.</description>
</lore>
</codex>

Continue the story using the following instructions:
<instructions>
Write a fully fleshed out scene of at least 1000 words in the fantasy genre.

A small group enters an ancient, otherworldly place for the first time. The environment is alien and wondrous. Describe their exploration — what they see, hear, and feel as they move deeper. Include moments of discovery, unease, and wonder. Let the world-building emerge through the characters' experience rather than exposition.

Use the codex entries above as your world reference for characters, setting, and lore.
Only include the prose of the scene without any markdown or commentary.
</instructions>

Model response

The portal closed behind them with a sound like a wet cloth being wrung dry, and the air that replaced it tasted of overripe fruit and something darker underneath — burnt caramel, or charred honey. Rory swallowed hard and tried not to think about what she'd just walked through.

The sky was wrong. That was the first thing. Not the colour, though the colour was wrong too — a deep, saturated amber that pressed down on everything like the last hour before a storm, except there was no sun to speak of, only a sourceless warmth that fell evenly across the land in every direction. It was the texture of the sky that unsettled her. It moved. Slowly, like fat cooling in a pan, vast slow-churning shapes rolling through the amber in shades of rust and gold.

"Don't look up too long."

Nyx drifted to her left, their silhouette breaking apart at the edges where the strange amber light caught them, shadows bleeding outward before pulling back in. Their violet eyes floated in the dark like two distant flames.

"Why?"

"The sky here is not sky."

Rory looked back down.

The land in front of them rolled outward in low hills threaded with vines so heavy with fruit the branches had bent into arches, creating tunnels of purple and black clusters that dripped slow amber juice onto the soil below. The soil itself was a deep red-brown, almost the colour of dried blood, and impossibly fine — it rose in small, lazy clouds when Rory shifted her weight from one foot to the other. Across the nearest hill, an orchard spread in rows so precise they might have been measured. Trees she had no name for, with pale bark and leaves the colour of old copper, hung with fruits that ranged in size from a fist to a human head. Some had split open on their own, bursting with flesh that caught the amber glow and gleamed.

Everything here was full. Overfull.

The Heartstone pendant pressed against her sternum, warm through the fabric of her shirt — not the gentle pulse she'd felt near the London portal, but a deep, rhythmic heat, like something far below her feet was breathing.

Isolde stood a half-step behind, her silver hair unmoved despite the faint current that stirred the vine leaves around them. Her lavender eyes moved across the landscape with something that wasn't quite calm and wasn't quite recognition.

"You've been here before." Rory watched the seer's face. "Haven't you."

"I have seen this place." Isolde tilted her head, the way she always did when she was arranging her words into something technically true. "Seeing a fire and standing inside one are not the same wound."

Nyx moved ahead without waiting, their feet making no sound on the red soil. "We follow the river. There will be a river."

"You're certain?"

Their silhouette turned slightly. "There is always a river in Dymas. It does not carry water."

Rory fell into step behind them and did not ask what it carried.

The vine tunnels swallowed them after thirty paces, and the amber sky disappeared above a lattice of interlocking branches. In the dimmer light beneath the vines, everything had a different quality — the fruit clusters hung close enough to brush her shoulders, and each time one grazed her jacket she caught a smell: roasting meat, baking bread, something sweet and animal she couldn't identify. Not unpleasant. That was what bothered her. She was, she realised, hungry, and she hadn't been a moment ago.

She kept her hands at her sides.

Isolde caught her arm softly. "Do not eat."

"I wasn't going to."

"You were considering it." Not unkind. Just exact.

The tunnel opened onto a terrace of flat stone overlooking a valley below, and there was the river Nyx had promised. It ran dark and slow through the valley floor, the colour of black treacle, and it caught the amber light in long, oily reflections. Along both banks, figures moved with the unhurried deliberateness of people at work — carrying crates, operating long-armed devices Rory couldn't categorise at distance, tending enormous open hearths where something vast and indeterminate roasted on spits.

They were people. Or they had been. She could see that in the shapes of them, the proportions, the way they walked and bent and turned. But they moved with something missing — the small inefficiencies of people with their own thoughts, the pauses and gestures that had nothing to do with the task at hand. These ones moved clean. Every action served the next.

"Contracted souls." Nyx's voice was barely a breath. "Bound here. Their labour feeds the feasts."

Rory stared at the nearest figure, a man or what had been one, stirring something in an iron vessel the size of a bathtub. His face, when it briefly turned upward, was placid. Not peaceful. Placid. There was a difference.

"How long?"

"Until whatever they agreed to expires." A pause. "Most agreements are poorly read before signing."

Below, a bell rang — a low, resonant sound that she felt in her back teeth more than heard — and every figure along the riverbank stopped simultaneously, turned, and walked in the same direction with the unhurried precision of tide water. The fires kept burning. The spits kept turning.

"We should move before the bell rings again." Isolde stepped back from the terrace edge. "The second bell calls the overseers."

"What happens when the overseers come?"

The seer folded her hands. "They count what is present. What should not be present draws considerable attention."

Rory looked once more at the valley, at the dark river and the pale fires and the rows of human shapes that had forgotten they were human, and then she turned and followed Nyx back into the vines.

The Heartstone burned against her chest all the way down.

Evaluation details

Result

Evaluator

Details

Meta Data

100.00%

Adverbs in dialogue tags

Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs

totalTags

adverbTagCount

adverbTags

0	"Isolde stepped back [back]"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.136

leniency

0.273

rawRatio

0.333

effectiveRatio

0.091

84.54%

AI-ism adverb frequency

Target: <2% AI-ism adverbs (58 tracked)

wordCount

970

totalAiIsmAdverbs

found

adverb	"slowly"
count	1

adverb	"slightly"
count	1

adverb	"softly"
count	1

highlights

0	"slowly"
1	"slightly"
2	"softly"

100.00%

AI-ism character names

Target: 0 AI-default names (17 tracked, −20% each)

codexExemptions	(empty)
found	(empty)

100.00%

AI-ism location names

Target: 0 AI-default location names (33 tracked, −20% each)

codexExemptions	(empty)
found	(empty)

63.92%

AI-ism word frequency

Target: <2% AI-ism words (290 tracked)

wordCount

970

totalAiIsms

found

word	"warmth"
count	1

word	"unsettled"
count	1

word	"churning"
count	1

word	"weight"
count	1

word	"measured"
count	1

word	"pulse"
count	1

word	"rhythmic"
count	1

highlights

0	"warmth"
1	"unsettled"
2	"churning"
3	"weight"
4	"measured"
5	"pulse"
6	"rhythmic"

100.00%

Cliché density

Target: ≤1 cliche(s) per 800-word window

totalCliches	0
maxInWindow	0
found	(empty)
highlights	(empty)

100.00%

Emotion telling (show vs. tell)

Target: ≤3% sentences with emotion telling

emotionTells	0
narrationSentences	58
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Filter word density

Target: ≤3% sentences with filter/hedge words

filterCount	0
hedgeCount	0
narrationSentences	58
filterMatches	(empty)
hedgeMatches	(empty)

100.00%

Gibberish response detection

Target: ≤1% gibberish-like sentences (hard fail if a sentence exceeds 800 words)

analyzedSentences	74
gibberishSentences	0
adjustedGibberishSentences	0
longSentenceCount	0
runOnParagraphCount	0
giantParagraphCount	0
wordSaladCount	0
repetitionLoopCount	0
controlTokenCount	0
maxSentenceWordsSeen	46
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Markdown formatting overuse

Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting

markdownSpans	0
markdownWords	0
totalWords	979
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)

Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks

totalAttributions	3
unquotedAttributions	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Name drop frequency

Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words

totalMentions

wordCount

853

uniqueNames

maxNameDensity

0.94

worstName

"Rory"

maxWindowNameDensity

1.5

worstWindowName

"Rory"

discoveredNames

Rory	8
Heartstone	2
London	1
Isolde	4
Nyx	5

persons

0	"Rory"
1	"Heartstone"
2	"Isolde"
3	"Nyx"

places

"London"

globalScore

windowScore

76.47%

Narrator intent-glossing

Target: ≤2% narration sentences with intent-glossing patterns

analyzedSentences

glossingSentenceCount

matches

0	"quite recognition"

97.85%

"Not X but Y" pattern overuse

Target: ≤1 "not X but Y" per 1000 words

totalMatches

per1kWords

1.021

wordCount

979

matches

0	"not the gentle pulse she'd felt near the London portal, but a deep, rhythmic heat, like something far below her feet was"

100.00%

Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)

Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses

thatCount	0
totalSentences	74
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Paragraph length variance

Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts

totalParagraphs

mean

28.79

std

30.75

1.068

sampleLengths

0	49
1	88
2	5
3	37
4	1
5	6
6	4
7	137
8	5
9	38
10	37
11	11
12	36
13	23
14	2
15	16
16	13
17	83
18	7
19	8
20	4
21	8
22	81
23	65
24	15
25	40
26	2
27	15
28	50
29	21
30	6
31	18
32	38
33	10

93.16%

Passive voice overuse

Target: ≤2% passive sentences

passiveCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"being wrung"
1	"been measured"

100.00%

Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse

Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs

pastProgressiveCount

totalVerbs

137

matches

0	"was breathing"
1	"was arranging"

0.00%

Em-dash & semicolon overuse

Target: ≤2% sentences with em-dashes/semicolons

emDashCount

semicolonCount

flaggedSentences

totalSentences

ratio

0.108

matches

0	"The portal closed behind them with a sound like a wet cloth being wrung dry, and the air that replaced it tasted of overripe fruit and something darker underneath — burnt caramel, or charred honey."
1	"Not the colour, though the colour was wrong too — a deep, saturated amber that pressed down on everything like the last hour before a storm, except there was no sun to speak of, only a sourceless warmth that fell evenly across the land in every direction."
2	"The soil itself was a deep red-brown, almost the colour of dried blood, and impossibly fine — it rose in small, lazy clouds when Rory shifted her weight from one foot to the other."
3	"The Heartstone pendant pressed against her sternum, warm through the fabric of her shirt — not the gentle pulse she'd felt near the London portal, but a deep, rhythmic heat, like something far below her feet was breathing."
4	"In the dimmer light beneath the vines, everything had a different quality — the fruit clusters hung close enough to brush her shoulders, and each time one grazed her jacket she caught a smell: roasting meat, baking bread, something sweet and animal she couldn't identify."
5	"Along both banks, figures moved with the unhurried deliberateness of people at work — carrying crates, operating long-armed devices Rory couldn't categorise at distance, tending enormous open hearths where something vast and indeterminate roasted on spits."
6	"But they moved with something missing — the small inefficiencies of people with their own thoughts, the pauses and gestures that had nothing to do with the task at hand."
7	"Below, a bell rang — a low, resonant sound that she felt in her back teeth more than heard — and every figure along the riverbank stopped simultaneously, turned, and walked in the same direction with the unhurried precision of tide water."

100.00%

Purple prose (modifier overload)

Target: <4% adverbs, <2% -ly adverbs, no adj stacking

wordCount	848
adjectiveStacks	0
stackExamples	(empty)
adverbCount	31
adverbRatio	0.036556603773584904
lyAdverbCount	11
lyAdverbRatio	0.012971698113207548

100.00%

Repeated phrase echo

Target: ≤20% sentences with echoes (window: 2)

totalSentences	74
echoCount	0
echoWords	(empty)

100.00%

Sentence length variance

Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts

totalSentences

mean

13.23

std

12.16

0.919

sampleLengths

0	35
1	14
2	4
3	5
4	47
5	10
6	2
7	20
8	5
9	26
10	11
11	1
12	6
13	4
14	40
15	34
16	16
17	30
18	17
19	4
20	1
21	38
22	20
23	17
24	9
25	2
26	24
27	12
28	14
29	9
30	2
31	4
32	12
33	13
34	19
35	45
36	2
37	5
38	12
39	7
40	5
41	3
42	4
43	6
44	2
45	21
46	24
47	36
48	3
49	4

89.19%

Sentence opener variety

Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers

consecutiveRepeats	4
diversityRatio	0.5675675675675675
totalSentences	74
uniqueOpeners	42

66.67%

Adverb-first sentence starts

Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb

adverbCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"Slowly, like fat cooling in"

ratio

0.02

100.00%

Pronoun-first sentence starts

Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun

pronounCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"It was the texture of"
1	"Their violet eyes floated in"
2	"Her lavender eyes moved across"
3	"Their silhouette turned slightly."
4	"She was, she realised, hungry,"
5	"She kept her hands at"
6	"It ran dark and slow"
7	"They were people."
8	"She could see that in"
9	"His face, when it briefly"

ratio

0.2

50.00%

Subject-first sentence starts

Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject

subjectCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"The portal closed behind them"
1	"Rory swallowed hard and tried"
2	"The sky was wrong."
3	"That was the first thing."
4	"It was the texture of"
5	"Nyx drifted to her left,"
6	"Their violet eyes floated in"
7	"Rory looked back down."
8	"The land in front of"
9	"The soil itself was a"
10	"Trees she had no name"
11	"Some had split open on"
12	"Everything here was full."
13	"The Heartstone pendant pressed against"
14	"Isolde stood a half-step behind,"
15	"Her lavender eyes moved across"
16	"Rory watched the seer's face"
17	"Isolde tilted her head, the"
18	"Nyx moved ahead without waiting,"
19	"Their silhouette turned slightly."

ratio

0.82

0.00%

Subordinate conjunction sentence starts

Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction

subConjCount	0
totalSentences	50
matches	(empty)
ratio	0

0.00%

Technical jargon density

Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns

analyzedSentences

technicalSentenceCount

matches

0	"Not the colour, though the colour was wrong too — a deep, saturated amber that pressed down on everything like the last hour before a storm, except there was no…"
1	"Nyx drifted to her left, their silhouette breaking apart at the edges where the strange amber light caught them, shadows bleeding outward before pulling back in…"
2	"The land in front of them rolled outward in low hills threaded with vines so heavy with fruit the branches had bent into arches, creating tunnels of purple and …"
3	"Her lavender eyes moved across the landscape with something that wasn't quite calm and wasn't quite recognition."
4	"Nyx moved ahead without waiting, their feet making no sound on the red soil."
5	"But they moved with something missing — the small inefficiencies of people with their own thoughts, the pauses and gestures that had nothing to do with the task…"

100.00%

Useless dialogue additions

Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments

totalTags	3
uselessAdditionCount	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)

Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags

totalTags

84.0600%