Run: 2026-05-29-01KSSJXYPHTY57WGH7JPM3T2CB

Run Details

Model:: Claude Opus 4.8 (Reasoning)
Test:: Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:: Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin
Duration:: 40.5s
Cost:: $0.065225
Provider:: Anthropic

Evaluation summary

Score	Evaluator	Details Link
100.00%	Adverbs in dialogue tags	(details)
90.30%	AI-ism adverb frequency	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism character names	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism location names	(details)
75.75%	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)
41.30%	Narrator intent-glossing	(details)
100.00%	"Not X but Y" pattern overuse	(details)
100.00%	Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)	(details)
100.00%	Paragraph length variance	(details)
100.00%	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)
78.60%	Sentence opener variety	(details)
0.00%	Adverb-first sentence starts	(details)
81.82%	Pronoun-first sentence starts	(details)
50.91%	Subject-first sentence starts	(details)
0.00%	Subordinate conjunction sentence starts	(details)
4.61%	Technical jargon density	(details)
100.00%	Useless dialogue additions	(details)
75.93%	Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)	(details)
79.9740%	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 standing stones rose out of the bracken like teeth, their bark silvered with a frost that had no business clinging to anything in June. Aurora stopped at the threshold between two of them, one palm hovering near the nearest oak. Cold radiated off the wood, the same bone-deep chill that lived in the dagger sheathed at her hip.

"You feel that?" She glanced back over her shoulder.

Nyx flowed across the grass behind her, their silhouette thinning and thickening as they passed through the dappled shade. "I feel a great many things in this place. The question you want answered is whether any of them mean to harm us."

"And?"

"Ask me again when we're inside."

She stepped through.

The world folded. There was no other word for it — the park behind them, the distant traffic hum, the grey London sky, all of it pinched shut like a closing eye. The air changed flavour on her tongue. Sweeter. Older. She tasted honey and rain and something metallic that sat behind her teeth and refused to be named.

The clearing opened before them in impossible light.

Wildflowers carpeted the ground in every direction, and they were wrong in the most beautiful way. Bluebells nodded beside poppies beside something star-shaped and white that she'd never seen in any field on Earth, and all of them bloomed at once, spring and summer and the dying flush of autumn crowded together with no regard for season. When the breeze moved through them they chimed. Faint, glassy notes, as if each petal carried its own small bell.

"It's singing." She crouched, brushing two fingers across a cluster of the star-blooms. They leaned into her touch like cats. "The flowers are singing."

"Don't eat anything." Nyx had gone solid now, six feet of cut shadow standing at her shoulder, their violet eyes scanning the treeline. "Don't drink. Don't accept gifts freely given. The old rules apply here more than anywhere."

"You sound like my gran."

"Your gran lived to a respectable age, I imagine."

She rose and walked deeper. The grass gave under her boots without a sound, springing back so completely that she left no trail behind her. When she looked over her shoulder her footprints had already vanished, swallowed by the meadow as though she had never passed at all. That bothered her more than the singing.

The trees here weren't the oaks and chestnuts of the park. They climbed too high, their canopies lost somewhere in a sky that couldn't decide on a colour — dusk-purple in one quarter, dawn-gold in another, a smear of green-tinged dark between them where stars she didn't recognise pricked through. No sun anywhere. The light simply was, falling soft and shadowless on everything so that the grove seemed lit from within.

A stream cut across their path, narrow enough to step over. The water ran clear over stones that glowed a faint pearled blue, and the current moved in the wrong direction — uphill, toward the heart of the grove, climbing a gentle slope as though something at the centre were drinking it in.

"Tell me that's normal," Aurora said.

"Nothing here is normal. That's rather the point." Nyx crouched at the water's edge but did not touch it. "Time pools at the centre of places like this. Water follows. So do hungrier things."

"Hungrier things." She pressed her palm flat against the pendant under her shirt. It lay cool and still — no Hel portal here, then. Small mercies. "You could've mentioned the hungry things before I agreed to come."

"You'd have come regardless."

He wasn't wrong, and she hated that he wasn't.

They followed the stream. The deeper they went, the thicker the air grew, until each breath felt like swallowing warm wine. A heaviness crept into her limbs, sweet and slow, the kind of tiredness that whispered there was no harm in sitting down, just for a moment, here among the singing flowers where the light never changed and nothing ever had to end —

"Aurora."

She blinked. She'd stopped walking. Her knees had bent without her permission, half-folded toward the moss.

Nyx's hand closed around her wrist, and the cold of them cut clean through the haze. "It begins like that. With kindness. With rest. By the time you understand you're caught, you've forgotten there was ever anywhere else to be."

She straightened, shaking the fog from her head, and forced her feet forward one stubborn step at a time. "How long have we been in here?"

"Minutes. Or a week. The grove decides, and it doesn't tell."

Wonderful.

The trees thinned ahead. Light brightened, gathering toward a clearing within the clearing, and she heard it before she saw it — a sound like wind through a thousand strands of harp wire, rising and falling without ever settling into melody. The flowers grew taller here, shoulder-high, their chiming swelling into something almost like voices. She thought she caught words in it. Her own name, maybe. Or someone calling for help in a language that scraped at the edges of her mind and slipped away before she could hold it.

"There." Nyx pointed.

At the centre stood a single tree unlike all the others — white-barked, leafless, its branches twisting into a crown that caught the strange light and threw it back in slow, drifting motes. Beneath it, the stream they'd followed ended in a still black pool that reflected no sky. And the air around it shimmered. A distortion, faint as heat-haze, a curtain hung between one breath and the next.

Aurora's hand found the hilt of the Fae blade. It had warmed, just slightly, where everything else here ran cold.

"That's the Veil," she breathed. "Isn't it. That's a thin place."

"The thinnest you'll find on this side of the standing stones." Nyx's whisper had dropped lower, almost reverent, almost afraid. "Half-Fae walks her grove with one foot in each world. This is the seam where they meet."

She stared into the rippling air, and something on the other side of it seemed to stare back.

"Isolde," she called. Her voice fell flat against the singing, swallowed whole. "Isolde, I came. Just like you said."

The pool stirred.

Evaluation details

Result

Evaluator

Details

Meta Data

100.00%

Adverbs in dialogue tags

Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs

totalTags

adverbTagCount

adverbTags

0	"She glanced back [back]"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.37

leniency

0.741

rawRatio

0.1

effectiveRatio

0.074

90.30%

AI-ism adverb frequency

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

wordCount

1031

totalAiIsmAdverbs

found

adverb	"completely"
count	1

adverb	"slightly"
count	1

highlights

0	"completely"
1	"slightly"

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)

75.75%

AI-ism word frequency

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

wordCount

1031

totalAiIsms

found

word	"chill"
count	1

word	"scanning"
count	1

word	"tinged"
count	1

word	"shimmered"
count	1

word	"whisper"
count	1

highlights

0	"chill"
1	"scanning"
2	"tinged"
3	"shimmered"
4	"whisper"

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	64
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Filter word density

Target: ≤3% sentences with filter/hedge words

filterCount

hedgeCount

narrationSentences

filterMatches

(empty)

hedgeMatches

0	"seemed to"

100.00%

Gibberish response detection

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

analyzedSentences	81
gibberishSentences	0
adjustedGibberishSentences	0
longSentenceCount	0
runOnParagraphCount	0
giantParagraphCount	0
wordSaladCount	0
repetitionLoopCount	0
controlTokenCount	0
repeatedSegmentCount	0
maxSentenceWordsSeen	42
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Markdown formatting overuse

Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting

markdownSpans	0
markdownWords	0
totalWords	1038
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)

Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks

totalAttributions	11
unquotedAttributions	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Name drop frequency

Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words

totalMentions

wordCount

834

uniqueNames

maxNameDensity

0.72

worstName

"Nyx"

maxWindowNameDensity

worstWindowName

"Nyx"

discoveredNames

June	1
Nyx	6
London	1
Earth	1
Hel	1
Fae	1
Aurora	3

persons

0	"Nyx"
1	"Aurora"

places

0	"June"
1	"London"

globalScore

windowScore

41.30%

Narrator intent-glossing

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

analyzedSentences

glossingSentenceCount

matches

0	"seemed lit from within"
1	"felt like swallowing warm wine"

100.00%

"Not X but Y" pattern overuse

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

totalMatches	0
per1kWords	0
wordCount	1038
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)

Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses

thatCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"hated that he"

100.00%

Paragraph length variance

Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts

totalParagraphs

mean

28.05

std

25.25

0.9

sampleLengths

0	59
1	9
2	42
3	1
4	6
5	3
6	59
7	8
8	77
9	24
10	38
11	5
12	9
13	55
14	71
15	53
16	6
17	34
18	37
19	4
20	9
21	64
22	1
23	16
24	40
25	26
26	11
27	1
28	90
29	3
30	69
31	20
32	11
33	37
34	18
35	19
36	3

100.00%

Passive voice overuse

Target: ≤2% passive sentences

passiveCount	0
totalSentences	64
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse

Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs

pastProgressiveCount

totalVerbs

136

matches

0	"was, falling"
1	"were drinking"

0.00%

Em-dash & semicolon overuse

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

emDashCount

semicolonCount

flaggedSentences

totalSentences

ratio

0.086

matches

0	"There was no other word for it — the park behind them, the distant traffic hum, the grey London sky, all of it pinched shut like a closing eye."
1	"They climbed too high, their canopies lost somewhere in a sky that couldn't decide on a colour — dusk-purple in one quarter, dawn-gold in another, a smear of green-tinged dark between them where stars she didn't recognise pricked through."
2	"The water ran clear over stones that glowed a faint pearled blue, and the current moved in the wrong direction — uphill, toward the heart of the grove, climbing a gentle slope as though something at the centre were drinking it in."
3	"It lay cool and still — no Hel portal here, then."
4	"A heaviness crept into her limbs, sweet and slow, the kind of tiredness that whispered there was no harm in sitting down, just for a moment, here among the singing flowers where the light never changed and nothing ever had to end —"
5	"Light brightened, gathering toward a clearing within the clearing, and she heard it before she saw it — a sound like wind through a thousand strands of harp wire, rising and falling without ever settling into melody."
6	"At the centre stood a single tree unlike all the others — white-barked, leafless, its branches twisting into a crown that caught the strange light and threw it back in slow, drifting motes."

100.00%

Purple prose (modifier overload)

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

wordCount	837
adjectiveStacks	0
stackExamples	(empty)
adverbCount	31
adverbRatio	0.037037037037037035
lyAdverbCount	3
lyAdverbRatio	0.0035842293906810036

100.00%

Repeated phrase echo

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

totalSentences	81
echoCount	0
echoWords	(empty)

100.00%

Sentence length variance

Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts

totalSentences

mean

12.81

std

10.14

0.791

sampleLengths

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

78.60%

Sentence opener variety

Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers

consecutiveRepeats	3
diversityRatio	0.49382716049382713
totalSentences	81
uniqueOpeners	40

0.00%

Adverb-first sentence starts

Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb

adverbCount	0
totalSentences	55
matches	(empty)
ratio	0

81.82%

Pronoun-first sentence starts

Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun

pronounCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"She glanced back over her"
1	"She stepped through."
2	"She tasted honey and rain"
3	"She crouched, brushing two fingers"
4	"They leaned into her touch"
5	"She rose and walked deeper."
6	"They climbed too high, their"
7	"She pressed her palm flat"
8	"It lay cool and still"
9	"He wasn't wrong, and she"
10	"They followed the stream."
11	"She'd stopped walking."
12	"Her knees had bent without"
13	"She straightened, shaking the fog"
14	"She thought she caught words"
15	"Her own name, maybe."
16	"It had warmed, just slightly,"
17	"She stared into the rippling"
18	"Her voice fell flat against"

ratio

0.345

50.91%

Subject-first sentence starts

Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject

subjectCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"The standing stones rose out"
1	"Aurora stopped at the threshold"
2	"She glanced back over her"
3	"Nyx flowed across the grass"
4	"She stepped through."
5	"The world folded."
6	"The air changed flavour on"
7	"She tasted honey and rain"
8	"The clearing opened before them"
9	"Wildflowers carpeted the ground in"
10	"Bluebells nodded beside poppies beside"
11	"She crouched, brushing two fingers"
12	"They leaned into her touch"
13	"Nyx had gone solid now,"
14	"She rose and walked deeper."
15	"The grass gave under her"
16	"That bothered her more than"
17	"The trees here weren't the"
18	"They climbed too high, their"
19	"The light simply was, falling"

ratio

0.818

0.00%

Subordinate conjunction sentence starts

Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction

subConjCount	0
totalSentences	55
matches	(empty)
ratio	0

4.61%

Technical jargon density

Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns

analyzedSentences

technicalSentenceCount

matches

0	"Nyx flowed across the grass behind her, their silhouette thinning and thickening as they passed through the dappled shade."
1	"Faint, glassy notes, as if each petal carried its own small bell."
2	"They climbed too high, their canopies lost somewhere in a sky that couldn't decide on a colour — dusk-purple in one quarter, dawn-gold in another, a smear of gr…"
3	"The water ran clear over stones that glowed a faint pearled blue, and the current moved in the wrong direction — uphill, toward the heart of the grove, climbing…"
4	"A heaviness crept into her limbs, sweet and slow, the kind of tiredness that whispered there was no harm in sitting down, just for a moment, here among the sing…"
5	"At the centre stood a single tree unlike all the others — white-barked, leafless, its branches twisting into a crown that caught the strange light and threw it …"

100.00%

Useless dialogue additions

Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments

totalTags	10
uselessAdditionCount	0
matches	(empty)

75.93%

Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)

Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags

totalTags

fancyCount

fancyTags

0	"She pressed (press)"
1	"she breathed (breathe)"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.148

leniency

0.296

rawRatio

0.5

effectiveRatio

0.148

79.9740%