Run: 2026-05-31-01KSYXB7DQ6YFDNG4GZQ53R4WH

Run Details

Model:: Claude Opus 4.8 (Reasoning, High)
Test:: Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:: Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin
Duration:: 40.0s
Cost:: $0.066225
Provider:: Anthropic

Evaluation summary

Score	Evaluator	Details Link
100.00%	Adverbs in dialogue tags	(details)
90.39%	AI-ism adverb frequency	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism character names	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism location names	(details)
32.76%	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)
83.33%	Name drop frequency	(details)
100.00%	Narrator intent-glossing	(details)
0.00%	"Not X but Y" pattern overuse	(details)
100.00%	Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)	(details)
100.00%	Paragraph length variance	(details)
99.87%	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)
69.35%	Sentence opener variety	(details)
100.00%	Adverb-first sentence starts	(details)
100.00%	Pronoun-first sentence starts	(details)
47.30%	Subject-first sentence starts	(details)
0.00%	Subordinate conjunction sentence starts	(details)
27.65%	Technical jargon density	(details)
41.67%	Useless dialogue additions	(details)
100.00%	Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)	(details)
79.7439%	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 from the grass like the ribs of some long-dead leviathan, their oak surfaces dark and slick with moss. Aurora stopped at the threshold, one hand braced against the nearest pillar. Cold seeped through her palm — colder than the wood had any right to be.

"This is it," Eva whispered behind her. "The grove."

"You're sure?" Aurora pressed her other hand to the Heartstone at her collarbone. It lay quiet against her skin, neither warm nor pulsing. No portal here. Just whatever waited past the trees.

Nyx slid between two of the stones without touching either, their silhouette thinning to a smear of dark before solidifying on the far side. "The boundary's thin. Step through. Mind your feet."

Aurora went first.

The world changed mid-stride. One moment, the ordinary chill of Richmond Park at dusk; the next, a flood of light and warmth that had no business existing in November. She stumbled, caught herself, and looked up.

Wildflowers carpeted the clearing in a riot of colour that shouldn't have grown together — bluebells beside summer poppies, foxgloves towering over winter aconite, all of them blooming at once, all of them swaying though no wind touched her face. The air hung thick and sweet, heavy with pollen and something older underneath, a mineral tang like rain on hot stone.

"It's warm," Eva said. She'd come through behind her, arms wrapped around herself out of habit, now slowly loosening. "How is it warm?"

"Time doesn't run straight here." Nyx drifted ahead, their violet eyes the only fixed point in all that shifting colour. "Neither does season. Neither does much of anything."

Aurora turned in a slow circle. The standing stones had vanished behind them — where the threshold should have been, only more wildflowers stretched away toward a treeline that hadn't existed a moment ago. Her stomach dropped.

"The way out's gone."

"It's there. You simply can't see it from in." Nyx didn't slow. "Keep close to me and you won't be lost."

She didn't find that comforting. She filed it away and kept walking.

The grass made no sound underfoot, though it should have whispered against her boots. When she glanced back, her trail had already closed, blades springing upright as if she'd never passed. Nyx left nothing at all — but then, Nyx rarely did.

Eva crouched beside a cluster of toadstools ringed in a perfect circle, each one glowing a soft luminous green from beneath its cap. "Aurora. Look at these."

"Don't touch them."

"I wasn't going to —" Eva pulled her hand back. The nearest mushroom dimmed, then brightened, as though it had taken a breath. "They're reacting to me."

"Everything here reacts." Nyx's whisper carried back over their shoulder. "The grove notices what enters it. Best you notice it back. Politely."

They pressed deeper. The light shifted as they went — not the slow slide of a setting sun but something stranger, the colour of the sky deepening from gold to a bruised violet and back again, cycling through hours in the span of breaths. Aurora's sense of time frayed at the edges. She couldn't have said whether they'd walked five minutes or fifty.

A sound rose ahead. Water, she thought first — then bells, then neither. A high, layered chiming, as though someone had tuned a hundred glasses and set the wind to playing them. It pulled at something behind her sternum, a tug like homesickness for a place she'd never been.

"What is that?" Her voice came out hushed.

"The heart of the grove sings." Nyx had stopped at the edge of a shallow dell. "Few mortals hear it. Fewer still leave able to forget."

Aurora came up beside them and looked down.

A spring welled in the centre of the hollow, water rising from nowhere and spreading into a pool so clear it seemed to hold light rather than reflect it. Around its rim grew flowers she had no name for — petals like spun glass, stems that branched and rebranched in fractal spirals. The chiming came from them, she realised. The breeze stirred the glass petals and they rang against one another, a chorus with no melody and no end.

Eva sank to her knees at the water's edge, transfixed. "I could stay here forever."

"That," Nyx said, "is precisely the danger."

The flatness in their whisper made Aurora's neck prickle. She set a hand on Eva's shoulder and felt how slack it had gone. "Eva. Eva, get up."

"Just a minute." Her friend's voice had thinned to a dreaming murmur. "Just one —"

Aurora hauled her back from the rim. Eva blinked, swayed, then snapped into focus with a sharp intake of breath, as though surfacing from deep water.

"What happened?"

"You were about to learn what a minute costs in here." Nyx hadn't moved, but their form had darkened, shadow thickening at their edges. "Outside, an hour might be a heartbeat. Or a year. The grove doesn't bargain. It simply keeps what it's given."

Eva pressed both hands to her mouth. "I didn't even feel it."

"No one does."

Aurora knelt at the pool — careful now, keeping her weight back. In its depths she saw not her own face but a shifting cascade of images: a corridor of amber sky, vineyards heavy with impossible fruit, a feast hall where shadowed figures bent over plates. The Heartstone gave a single hard throb against her chest, warm for the first time since they'd entered.

"Nyx." She didn't take her eyes off the water. "It's showing me Dymas."

The Shade went still. "Then the Seer is closer than I'd hoped. The grove shows what it's been asked to show." They drifted to the pool's far side, eyes burning brighter against the gloom. "Isolde knows we've come. She's already speaking to you. Listen."

Beneath the chiming of the glass flowers, a voice threaded through — silver and soft, no louder than the water, every word arriving a moment before her ears could catch it.

*Three came seeking. Only two were called.*

Aurora's grip tightened on the cold edge of the pool. "Two of what?"

But the water only rippled, the amber sky in its depths folding shut, and the singing rose to fill the space the voice had left behind.

Evaluation details

Result

Evaluator

Details

Meta Data

100.00%

Adverbs in dialogue tags

Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs

totalTags

adverbTagCount

adverbTags

0	"Nyx's whisper carried back [back]"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.343

leniency

0.686

rawRatio

0.083

effectiveRatio

0.057

90.39%

AI-ism adverb frequency

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

wordCount

1041

totalAiIsmAdverbs

found

adverb	"slowly"
count	1

adverb	"precisely"
count	1

highlights

0	"slowly"
1	"precisely"

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)

32.76%

AI-ism word frequency

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

wordCount

1041

totalAiIsms

found

word	"chill"
count	1

word	"warmth"
count	1

word	"stomach"
count	1

word	"comforting"
count	1

word	"perfect"
count	1

word	"whisper"
count	2

word	"sense of"
count	1

word	"transfixed"
count	1

word	"weight"
count	1

word	"depths"
count	2

word	"throb"
count	1

word	"gloom"
count	1

highlights

0	"chill"
1	"warmth"
2	"stomach"
3	"comforting"
4	"perfect"
5	"whisper"
6	"sense of"
7	"transfixed"
8	"weight"
9	"depths"
10	"throb"
11	"gloom"

100.00%

Cliché density

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

totalCliches

maxInWindow

found

label	"stomach dropped/sank"
count	1

highlights

0	"stomach dropped"

100.00%

Emotion telling (show vs. tell)

Target: ≤3% sentences with emotion telling

emotionTells	0
narrationSentences	65
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	87
gibberishSentences	0
adjustedGibberishSentences	0
longSentenceCount	0
runOnParagraphCount	0
giantParagraphCount	0
wordSaladCount	0
repetitionLoopCount	0
controlTokenCount	0
repeatedSegmentCount	0
maxSentenceWordsSeen	40
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Markdown formatting overuse

Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting

markdownSpans

markdownWords

totalWords

1050

ratio

0.007

matches

0	"Three came seeking. Only two were called."

100.00%

Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)

Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks

totalAttributions	7
unquotedAttributions	0
matches	(empty)

83.33%

Name drop frequency

Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words

totalMentions

wordCount

843

uniqueNames

maxNameDensity

1.19

worstName

"Aurora"

maxWindowNameDensity

2.5

worstWindowName

"Nyx"

discoveredNames

Aurora	10
Heartstone	2
Richmond	1
Park	1
November	1
Nyx	9
Eva	7
Shade	1

persons

0	"Aurora"
1	"Nyx"
2	"Eva"
3	"Shade"

places

0	"Richmond"
1	"Park"
2	"November"

globalScore

0.907

windowScore

0.833

100.00%

Narrator intent-glossing

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

analyzedSentences

glossingSentenceCount

matches

0	"as though surfacing from deep water"

0.00%

"Not X but Y" pattern overuse

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

totalMatches

per1kWords

2.857

wordCount

1050

matches

0	"neither warm nor"
1	"not the slow slide of a setting sun but something stranger, the colour of the sky deepening from gol"
2	"not her own face but a shifting cascade of images: a corridor of amber sky, viney"

100.00%

Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)

Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses

thatCount	0
totalSentences	87
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Paragraph length variance

Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts

totalParagraphs

mean

26.25

std

19.01

0.724

sampleLengths

0	49
1	9
2	32
3	32
4	3
5	36
6	61
7	23
8	28
9	37
10	4
11	21
12	12
13	42
14	27
15	3
16	27
17	22
18	63
19	49
20	8
21	26
22	8
23	79
24	15
25	7
26	27
27	15
28	26
29	2
30	44
31	12
32	3
33	64
34	13
35	44
36	31
37	7
38	13
39	26

99.87%

Passive voice overuse

Target: ≤2% passive sentences

passiveCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"were called"

100.00%

Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse

Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs

pastProgressiveCount	0
totalVerbs	143
matches	(empty)

0.00%

Em-dash & semicolon overuse

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

emDashCount

semicolonCount

flaggedSentences

totalSentences

ratio

0.115

matches

0	"Cold seeped through her palm — colder than the wood had any right to be."
1	"One moment, the ordinary chill of Richmond Park at dusk; the next, a flood of light and warmth that had no business existing in November."
2	"Wildflowers carpeted the clearing in a riot of colour that shouldn't have grown together — bluebells beside summer poppies, foxgloves towering over winter aconite, all of them blooming at once, all of them swaying though no wind touched her face."
3	"The standing stones had vanished behind them — where the threshold should have been, only more wildflowers stretched away toward a treeline that hadn't existed a moment ago."
4	"Nyx left nothing at all — but then, Nyx rarely did."
5	"The light shifted as they went — not the slow slide of a setting sun but something stranger, the colour of the sky deepening from gold to a bruised violet and back again, cycling through hours in the span of breaths."
6	"Water, she thought first — then bells, then neither."
7	"Around its rim grew flowers she had no name for — petals like spun glass, stems that branched and rebranched in fractal spirals."
8	"Aurora knelt at the pool — careful now, keeping her weight back."
9	"Beneath the chiming of the glass flowers, a voice threaded through — silver and soft, no louder than the water, every word arriving a moment before her ears could catch it."

100.00%

Purple prose (modifier overload)

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

wordCount	597
adjectiveStacks	0
stackExamples	(empty)
adverbCount	23
adverbRatio	0.038525963149078725
lyAdverbCount	7
lyAdverbRatio	0.011725293132328308

100.00%

Repeated phrase echo

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

totalSentences	87
echoCount	0
echoWords	(empty)

100.00%

Sentence length variance

Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts

totalSentences

mean

12.07

std

8.97

0.744

sampleLengths

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

69.35%

Sentence opener variety

Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers

consecutiveRepeats	3
diversityRatio	0.4367816091954023
totalSentences	87
uniqueOpeners	38

100.00%

Adverb-first sentence starts

Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb

adverbCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"Just whatever waited past the"
1	"Only two were called.*"

ratio

0.032

100.00%

Pronoun-first sentence starts

Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun

pronounCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"It lay quiet against her"
1	"She stumbled, caught herself, and"
2	"She'd come through behind her,"
3	"Her stomach dropped."
4	"She didn't find that comforting."
5	"She filed it away and"
6	"They pressed deeper."
7	"She couldn't have said whether"
8	"It pulled at something behind"
9	"Her voice came out hushed"
10	"She set a hand on"
11	"Her friend's voice had thinned"
12	"She didn't take her eyes"
13	"They drifted to the pool's"

ratio

0.222

47.30%

Subject-first sentence starts

Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject

subjectCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"The standing stones rose from"
1	"Aurora stopped at the threshold,"
2	"Eva whispered behind her"
3	"Aurora pressed her other hand"
4	"It lay quiet against her"
5	"Nyx slid between two of"
6	"Aurora went first."
7	"The world changed mid-stride."
8	"She stumbled, caught herself, and"
9	"Wildflowers carpeted the clearing in"
10	"The air hung thick and"
11	"She'd come through behind her,"
12	"Nyx drifted ahead, their violet"
13	"Aurora turned in a slow"
14	"The standing stones had vanished"
15	"Her stomach dropped."
16	"Nyx didn't slow"
17	"She didn't find that comforting."
18	"She filed it away and"
19	"The grass made no sound"

ratio

0.825

0.00%

Subordinate conjunction sentence starts

Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction

subConjCount	0
totalSentences	63
matches	(empty)
ratio	0

27.65%

Technical jargon density

Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns

analyzedSentences

technicalSentenceCount

matches

0	"Nyx slid between two of the stones without touching either, their silhouette thinning to a smear of dark before solidifying on the far side."
1	"One moment, the ordinary chill of Richmond Park at dusk; the next, a flood of light and warmth that had no business existing in November."
2	"Wildflowers carpeted the clearing in a riot of colour that shouldn't have grown together — bluebells beside summer poppies, foxgloves towering over winter aconi…"
3	"The standing stones had vanished behind them — where the threshold should have been, only more wildflowers stretched away toward a treeline that hadn't existed …"
4	"Eva blinked, swayed, then snapped into focus with a sharp intake of breath, as though surfacing from deep water."

41.67%

Useless dialogue additions

Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments

totalTags

uselessAdditionCount

matches

0	"Nyx hadn't, but their form had darkened, shadow thickening at their edges"
1	"They drifted, eyes burning brighter against the gloom"

100.00%

Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)

Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags

totalTags

fancyCount

fancyTags

0	"Eva whispered (whisper)"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.086

leniency

0.171

rawRatio

0.333

effectiveRatio

0.057

79.7439%