Run: 2026-05-31-01KSYXRMX3HV3DC15ZP7561RJP

Run Details

Model:: Claude Opus 4.8 (Reasoning, High)
Test:: Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:: Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin
Duration:: 42.5s
Cost:: $0.067950
Provider:: Anthropic

Evaluation summary

Score	Evaluator	Details Link
100.00%	Adverbs in dialogue tags	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism adverb frequency	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism character names	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism location names	(details)
53.87%	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)
78.48%	Name drop frequency	(details)
91.86%	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)
80.16%	Sentence opener variety	(details)
0.00%	Adverb-first sentence starts	(details)
100.00%	Pronoun-first sentence starts	(details)
44.75%	Subject-first sentence starts	(details)
0.00%	Subordinate conjunction sentence starts	(details)
0.00%	Technical jargon density	(details)
19.74%	Useless dialogue additions	(details)
100.00%	Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)	(details)
78.9618%	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 the ribs of some long-dead giant, oaks twisted into shapes no tree should hold. Rory stopped at the threshold between two of them, her breath fogging in air that shouldn't have been cold in June.

"You feel that?" She rubbed her arms. "Warmer back there. Like crossing from one room to another."

Behind her, Nyx flowed across the grass without sound. Where the late sun touched them, their edges thinned, smoke caught in a draft.

"The boundary recognises you." Their voice came from everywhere and nowhere, a whisper threaded through the leaves. "It tasted the pendant. We're permitted."

Rory's hand went to the crimson stone at her throat. It pulsed once, slow, like a second pulse beneath her own.

They stepped through.

The world on the other side did not so much change as remember itself differently. The light deepened, gold thickening to honey, and the noise of distant London — sirens, the hum of traffic, the ordinary grind of a city — fell away as if someone had pressed a palm over the world's mouth. In its place rose birdsong from throats no bird possessed, notes that bent and folded back on themselves.

"Okay." Rory turned a slow circle. "That's new."

Wildflowers carpeted the clearing, every season blooming at once. Snowdrops nodded beside foxgloves. Bluebells leaned into roses that had no business sharing soil with frost-white hellebores, and over it all hung a scent like crushed mint and old rain. She crouched, brushing a fingertip across a petal. It curled toward her touch, then away, shy as a living thing.

"Don't pick anything." Nyx had drifted ahead, a column of dusk between the trunks. "Don't eat. Don't drink. You know the rules."

"I read the same stories you did." She straightened. "Eva used to scare me with them. Eat Fae food, lose a hundred years."

"The stories undersell it."

The third member of their party had said nothing since they crossed. Tomas — barely twenty, recruited because he could see the Veil's shimmer where others saw only empty air — stood frozen a few paces back, his head tilted as though listening to a sound just past hearing.

"Tomas." Rory snapped her fingers. "Stay with us."

He blinked, surfaced. "There's lines. Everywhere. Silver lines in the air, going off in all directions." He lifted a trembling hand and traced something invisible to her. "They all bend toward the centre. Like water down a drain."

"Then we follow them." She set off, boots sinking into moss that gave like flesh. "Down the drain."

The grove deepened impossibly. They had walked perhaps thirty steps, yet the standing stones behind them had vanished into a treeline that should not have grown so dense so fast. Rory glanced back twice. The second time, the path they'd cut through the wildflowers had already closed, stems standing upright as if no one had passed.

"Nyx." She kept her voice level. "The way out's gone."

"It isn't gone. It's waiting." A pause, the whisper sharpening. "Time moves crooked here. We left at dusk. We may return to find it dawn, or a week past. Keep moving. Standing still is worse."

The trees opened onto a stream, and Rory stopped because the water ran the wrong way.

It climbed. Where the ground sloped down, the stream poured uphill, silver and unhurried, murmuring over stones that glowed faint blue beneath the surface. She crouched at its edge, watching a leaf travel against gravity, slow as a thought.

"That's not possible," Tomas breathed.

"Neither is a man made of shadow." Rory's mouth twitched. "Try to keep up."

But her own pulse had quickened, and the pendant at her throat had gone cold for the first time, its warmth withdrawing as though even Hel's relics deferred to this place. She tucked it inside her collar and stood.

Across the stream, the air shimmered. Not the faint distortion Tomas described — this was visible to her too, a curtain of heat-ripple hanging between two birches. Beyond it, something moved. Tall, slow, deliberate.

"We have company." She slid her hand to the Fae blade at her hip. Moonsilver, cold even in this warm light, it hummed against her palm like a struck tuning fork.

"Lower it." Nyx coalesced beside her, briefly solid, six feet of darkness given the suggestion of a face. Violet eyes burned where eyes should be. "Drawing iron — or worse, that — in her domain is an insult she may not forgive."

"Her?"

The shimmer parted.

Isolde stepped through, and the grove rearranged itself around her. The crooked light straightened. The birdsong fell to a hush, deferential. She walked, and where her bare feet pressed the moss, no print remained — the flowers simply rose again, untouched, as if she weighed nothing at all, as if she were something the world declined to fully admit was present. Silver hair spilled past her waist. Her eyes, pale lavender, found Rory's and held them with the patience of someone who had been waiting three hundred years and could wait three hundred more.

"The barrister's daughter." Her voice was a bell heard underwater. "You came wearing crimson and carrying moonsilver. Fire and frost about your neck and at your hand. You are a contradiction walking, Aurora Carter."

"People keep telling me that." Rory let go of the blade, slow. "You're Isolde."

"I am what's left of her." A smile that didn't reach the lavender. "You seek a door. You believe I keep the key."

"I was told you see things. Things that haven't happened."

"I see all the things that might." Isolde tilted her head, and for an instant the ageless face flickered — something older beneath it, vast and sorrowing. "Most who come here want a single answer. You'll find the grove unkind to the greedy. It feeds on certainty. The more sure you are of what you want, the less you'll leave with."

Tomas made a small sound. The silver lines, Rory realised — he was seeing them move, all of them, every thread in the air bending now toward the woman at the stream's far bank.

"Then I'm not sure of anything," Rory said. "Will that do?"

Isolde laughed, and the wildflowers shivered as one.

"That," she said, "is the only correct answer anyone has given me in a hundred years. Come. Cross the water — it won't drown you, though it will lie about the depth. We have a great deal to discuss, and the night out there is shorter than you think."

Evaluation details

Result

Evaluator

Details

Meta Data

100.00%

Adverbs in dialogue tags

Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs

totalTags	19
adverbTagCount	0
adverbTags	(empty)
dialogueSentences	40
tagDensity	0.475
leniency	0.95
rawRatio	0
effectiveRatio	0

100.00%

AI-ism adverb frequency

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

wordCount	1084
totalAiIsmAdverbs	0
found	(empty)
highlights	(empty)

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)

53.87%

AI-ism word frequency

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

wordCount

1084

totalAiIsms

found

word	"whisper"
count	2

word	"pulsed"
count	1

word	"pulse"
count	2

word	"traced"
count	1

word	"quickened"
count	1

word	"warmth"
count	1

word	"shimmered"
count	1

word	"flickered"
count	1

highlights

0	"whisper"
1	"pulsed"
2	"pulse"
3	"traced"
4	"quickened"
5	"warmth"
6	"shimmered"
7	"flickered"

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	0
hedgeCount	0
narrationSentences	64
filterMatches	(empty)
hedgeMatches	(empty)

100.00%

Gibberish response detection

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

analyzedSentences	84
gibberishSentences	0
adjustedGibberishSentences	0
longSentenceCount	0
runOnParagraphCount	0
giantParagraphCount	0
wordSaladCount	0
repetitionLoopCount	0
controlTokenCount	0
repeatedSegmentCount	0
maxSentenceWordsSeen	48
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Markdown formatting overuse

Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting

markdownSpans	0
markdownWords	0
totalWords	1095
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)

Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks

totalAttributions	7
unquotedAttributions	0
matches	(empty)

78.48%

Name drop frequency

Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words

totalMentions

wordCount

769

uniqueNames

maxNameDensity

1.43

worstName

"Rory"

maxWindowNameDensity

worstWindowName

"Rory"

discoveredNames

June	1
Nyx	3
Rory	11
London	1
Wildflowers	1
Veil	1
Hel	1
Tomas	4
Fae	1
Moonsilver	1
Violet	1
Isolde	3

persons

0	"Nyx"
1	"Rory"
2	"Wildflowers"
3	"Veil"
4	"Hel"
5	"Tomas"
6	"Violet"
7	"Isolde"

places

0	"June"
1	"London"
2	"Fae"

globalScore

0.785

windowScore

91.86%

Narrator intent-glossing

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

analyzedSentences

glossingSentenceCount

matches

0	"as though listening to a sound just past hearing"

100.00%

"Not X but Y" pattern overuse

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

totalMatches	0
per1kWords	0
wordCount	1095
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)

Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses

thatCount	0
totalSentences	84
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Paragraph length variance

Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts

totalParagraphs

mean

28.08

std

20.96

0.746

sampleLengths

0	44
1	17
2	23
3	23
4	21
5	3
6	72
7	8
8	59
9	22
10	23
11	4
12	49
13	8
14	38
15	18
16	56
17	10
18	35
19	16
20	39
21	5
22	14
23	39
24	34
25	31
26	42
27	1
28	3
29	94
30	34
31	14
32	23
33	10
34	61
35	34
36	11
37	8
38	49

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

138

matches

0	"was seeing"

0.00%

Em-dash & semicolon overuse

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

emDashCount

semicolonCount

flaggedSentences

totalSentences

ratio

0.071

matches

0	"The light deepened, gold thickening to honey, and the noise of distant London — sirens, the hum of traffic, the ordinary grind of a city — fell away as if someone had pressed a palm over the world's mouth."
1	"Tomas — barely twenty, recruited because he could see the Veil's shimmer where others saw only empty air — stood frozen a few paces back, his head tilted as though listening to a sound just past hearing."
2	"Not the faint distortion Tomas described — this was visible to her too, a curtain of heat-ripple hanging between two birches."
3	"She walked, and where her bare feet pressed the moss, no print remained — the flowers simply rose again, untouched, as if she weighed nothing at all, as if she were something the world declined to fully admit was present."
4	"\"I see all the things that might.\" Isolde tilted her head, and for an instant the ageless face flickered — something older beneath it, vast and sorrowing."
5	"The silver lines, Rory realised — he was seeing them move, all of them, every thread in the air bending now toward the woman at the stream's far bank."

100.00%

Purple prose (modifier overload)

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

wordCount	764
adjectiveStacks	0
stackExamples	(empty)
adverbCount	30
adverbRatio	0.03926701570680628
lyAdverbCount	7
lyAdverbRatio	0.009162303664921465

100.00%

Repeated phrase echo

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

totalSentences	84
echoCount	0
echoWords	(empty)

100.00%

Sentence length variance

Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts

totalSentences

mean

13.04

std

10.11

0.775

sampleLengths

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

80.16%

Sentence opener variety

Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers

consecutiveRepeats	6
diversityRatio	0.5238095238095238
totalSentences	84
uniqueOpeners	44

0.00%

Adverb-first sentence starts

Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb

adverbCount	0
totalSentences	59
matches	(empty)
ratio	0

100.00%

Pronoun-first sentence starts

Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun

pronounCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"She rubbed her arms"
1	"Their voice came from everywhere"
2	"It pulsed once, slow, like"
3	"They stepped through."
4	"She crouched, brushing a fingertip"
5	"It curled toward her touch,"
6	"He blinked, surfaced."
7	"He lifted a trembling hand"
8	"She set off, boots sinking"
9	"They had walked perhaps thirty"
10	"She kept her voice level"
11	"She crouched at its edge,"
12	"She tucked it inside her"
13	"She slid her hand to"
14	"She walked, and where her"
15	"Her eyes, pale lavender, found"
16	"Her voice was a bell"

ratio

0.288

44.75%

Subject-first sentence starts

Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject

subjectCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"The standing stones rose out"
1	"Rory stopped at the threshold"
2	"She rubbed her arms"
3	"Their voice came from everywhere"
4	"Rory's hand went to the"
5	"It pulsed once, slow, like"
6	"They stepped through."
7	"The world on the other"
8	"The light deepened, gold thickening"
9	"Rory turned a slow circle"
10	"Wildflowers carpeted the clearing, every"
11	"Snowdrops nodded beside foxgloves."
12	"Bluebells leaned into roses that"
13	"She crouched, brushing a fingertip"
14	"It curled toward her touch,"
15	"Nyx had drifted ahead, a"
16	"The third member of their"
17	"Tomas — barely twenty, recruited"
18	"Rory snapped her fingers"
19	"He blinked, surfaced."

ratio

0.831

0.00%

Subordinate conjunction sentence starts

Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction

subConjCount	0
totalSentences	59
matches	(empty)
ratio	0

0.00%

Technical jargon density

Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns

analyzedSentences

technicalSentenceCount

matches

0	"Rory stopped at the threshold between two of them, her breath fogging in air that shouldn't have been cold in June."
1	"The light deepened, gold thickening to honey, and the noise of distant London — sirens, the hum of traffic, the ordinary grind of a city — fell away as if someo…"
2	"Bluebells leaned into roses that had no business sharing soil with frost-white hellebores, and over it all hung a scent like crushed mint and old rain."
3	"Tomas — barely twenty, recruited because he could see the Veil's shimmer where others saw only empty air — stood frozen a few paces back, his head tilted as tho…"
4	"They had walked perhaps thirty steps, yet the standing stones behind them had vanished into a treeline that should not have grown so dense so fast."
5	"Where the ground sloped down, the stream poured uphill, silver and unhurried, murmuring over stones that glowed faint blue beneath the surface."
6	"But her own pulse had quickened, and the pendant at her throat had gone cold for the first time, its warmth withdrawing as though even Hel's relics deferred to …"
7	"She walked, and where her bare feet pressed the moss, no print remained — the flowers simply rose again, untouched, as if she weighed nothing at all, as if she …"

19.74%

Useless dialogue additions

Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments

totalTags

uselessAdditionCount

matches

0	"Their voice came, a whisper threaded through the leaves"
1	"Nyx had, a column of dusk between the trunks"
2	"She set, boots sinking into moss that gave like flesh"
3	"Rory let go, slow"

100.00%

Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)

Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags

totalTags

fancyCount

fancyTags

0	"Rory snapped (snap)"
1	"Tomas breathed (breathe)"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.1

leniency

0.2

rawRatio

0.5

effectiveRatio

0.1

78.9618%