Run: 2026-07-01-01KWE9B402M1MH44F1HS2K9WPV

Run Details

Model:: Claude Sonnet 5 (Reasoning)
Test:: Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:: Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin
Duration:: 28.7s
Cost:: $0.023320
Provider:: Amazon Bedrock

Evaluation summary

Score	Evaluator	Details Link
100.00%	Adverbs in dialogue tags	(details)
94.57%	AI-ism adverb frequency	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism character names	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism location names	(details)
72.86%	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)
100.00%	Narrator intent-glossing	(details)
92.24%	"Not X but Y" pattern overuse	(details)
100.00%	Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)	(details)
100.00%	Paragraph length variance	(details)
95.78%	Passive voice overuse	(details)
100.00%	Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse	(details)
0.00%	Em-dash & semicolon overuse	(details)
97.21%	Purple prose (modifier overload)	(details)
100.00%	Repeated phrase echo	(details)
100.00%	Sentence length variance	(details)
95.98%	Sentence opener variety	(details)
100.00%	Adverb-first sentence starts	(details)
100.00%	Pronoun-first sentence starts	(details)
26.67%	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)
85.8435%	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 oak standing stones marked the boundary the way a held breath marks the moment before a scream, and Rory felt the change before she saw it — a pressure against her eardrums, like diving too fast into a pool.

"Feel that?" she said.

Nyx flowed ahead of her, a smear of deeper dark against the dusk, shoulders resolving and dissolving as they moved between the trunks. "The Grove doesn't like visitors. It tolerates them."

"Comforting."

The pendant at her throat had gone warm somewhere around the fourth stone, not hot like it did near the rifts, just warm, like it had been sitting in sunlight. Rory pressed two fingers against it and stepped through the gap between the last pair of oaks.

The world on the other side didn't so much appear as unfold.

Richmond Park's grey October evening was gone. In its place stretched a clearing bathed in a light that came from nowhere and everywhere, gold-green, like sun through new leaves except there was no sun to be found when she tipped her head back. Wildflowers rioted underfoot — poppies and bluebells and things she didn't have names for, blooming in defiance of the season, in defiance of each other. A bee the size of her thumb drifted past her ear, trailing a sound like a plucked violin string.

"That's not a bee," she said.

"No," Nyx agreed. "I wouldn't touch it."

The air smelled of crushed mint and something sweeter underneath, honeysuckle maybe, or memory of honeysuckle. Every breath left a faint tingle on her tongue, like the first sip of good champagne. Rory turned in a slow circle, taking in the ring of ancient oaks that seemed both close enough to touch and impossibly far, their canopies knitting overhead into a ceiling that pulsed faintly, like the inside of something alive.

"How big is this place?"

"Bigger than it should be," Nyx said. "Smaller than it wants you to think."

"That's not an answer."

"It's the only one that's true."

They walked. The ground gave slightly beneath her boots, springy, like moss over stone, and every few steps the flowers changed colour without her noticing the transition — poppies to something the blue of a bruise, bluebells to a white that glowed faintly of its own accord. Rory crouched to touch one of the glowing blooms and it curled away from her fingers, shy as a snail.

"Don't take offence," Nyx said. "It's not you. It's what you carry."

"The pendant?"

"The pendant. The blade. Hel's fingerprints are all over you, Rory, even here."

She straightened, wiping her palm on her jeans though nothing had touched it. Somewhere off to the left, water moved — not the gurgle of a stream but something slower, more deliberate, like the sound of a large creature breathing. She didn't go looking for the source.

"How much further?"

"Time isn't the question you should be asking."

"Fine. How much further, and also, why do I keep feeling like something's watching me from behind those trees."

"Because something is."

She stopped walking. "Nyx."

"It won't harm you. Probably." The Shade's violet eyes found hers, apologetic in a way that didn't reach whatever passed for their mouth. "This place remembers everyone who's ever set foot in it. Right now, it's remembering you. Best not to give it a reason to remember you badly."

Rory swallowed and kept moving, spine a little straighter, chin a little higher, the way she used to walk past Evan's mates outside the pub back in Cardiff — like fear was a coat she could simply decide not to wear.

The trees thinned. Ahead, the golden light deepened into something richer, amber shot through with threads of violet, and she heard music for the first time — not a melody exactly, more the memory of one, half-formed and constantly reforming, like wind chimes made of glass and regret. A path of pale stones wound through the grass, each one etched with symbols that shifted when she wasn't looking directly at them.

"These weren't here a second ago," she said, crouching over one that curled into a spiral resembling nothing so much as a snail shell, or an eye.

"They were. You weren't ready to see them."

"And now I am?"

"Now you're closer."

The path curved around an outcrop of silver-grey stone, veined with something that glittered like crushed starlight, and beyond it the ground dipped into a hollow ringed with wildflowers so dense they formed a wall, chest-high, humming faintly with that same violin-string sound as the bee. Through a gap in the flowers, Rory caught her first glimpse of the pool at the hollow's centre — black water, so still it looked solid, holding no reflection of the strange sky above it.

"Isolde's there," Nyx said, softer now, the whisper of their voice barely stirring the air. "Tread careful. She's kind, in her way, but kindness and safety aren't cousins in her house."

Rory's hand found the hilt of the Fae blade at her belt, more out of habit than intention, the cold of it seeping through her jeans and grounding her the way nothing else in this place did. She thought of the crescent scar on her wrist, old and pale, a mark from a world that made sense, and pressed her thumb against it.

"Right," she said. "Let's go meet the woman who can't lie."

She stepped through the gap in the flowers, and the hum of the blooms rose half a note, like the Grove itself had noticed, and approved.

Evaluation details

Result

Evaluator

Details

Meta Data

100.00%

Adverbs in dialogue tags

Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs

totalTags	9
adverbTagCount	0
adverbTags	(empty)
dialogueSentences	30
tagDensity	0.3
leniency	0.6
rawRatio	0
effectiveRatio	0

94.57%

AI-ism adverb frequency

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

wordCount

921

totalAiIsmAdverbs

found

adverb	"slightly"
count	1

highlights

0	"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)

72.86%

AI-ism word frequency

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

wordCount

921

totalAiIsms

found

word	"resolving"
count	1

word	"comforting"
count	1

word	"pulsed"
count	1

word	"etched"
count	1

word	"whisper"
count	1

highlights

0	"resolving"
1	"comforting"
2	"pulsed"
3	"etched"
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	37
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Filter word density

Target: ≤3% sentences with filter/hedge words

filterCount	0
hedgeCount	0
narrationSentences	37
filterMatches	(empty)
hedgeMatches	(empty)

100.00%

Gibberish response detection

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

analyzedSentences	58
gibberishSentences	0
adjustedGibberishSentences	0
longSentenceCount	0
runOnParagraphCount	0
giantParagraphCount	0
wordSaladCount	0
repetitionLoopCount	0
controlTokenCount	0
repeatedSegmentCount	0
maxSentenceWordsSeen	49
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Markdown formatting overuse

Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting

markdownSpans	0
markdownWords	0
totalWords	928
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)

Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks

totalAttributions	10
unquotedAttributions	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Name drop frequency

Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words

totalMentions

wordCount

743

uniqueNames

maxNameDensity

0.94

worstName

"Rory"

maxWindowNameDensity

1.5

worstWindowName

"Rory"

discoveredNames

Rory	7
Nyx	5
Park	1
October	1
Shade	1
Evan	1
Cardiff	1
Fae	1
Grove	1

persons

0	"Rory"
1	"Nyx"
2	"Shade"
3	"Evan"

places

0	"Park"
1	"Cardiff"

globalScore

windowScore

100.00%

Narrator intent-glossing

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

analyzedSentences	28
glossingSentenceCount	0
matches	(empty)

92.24%

"Not X but Y" pattern overuse

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

totalMatches

per1kWords

1.078

wordCount

928

matches

0	"not the gurgle of a stream but something slower, more deliberate, like the sound of a large"

100.00%

Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)

Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses

thatCount	0
totalSentences	58
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Paragraph length variance

Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts

totalParagraphs

mean

25.78

std

25.65

0.995

sampleLengths

0	40
1	4
2	31
3	1
4	47
5	12
6	87
7	6
8	7
9	71
10	5
11	14
12	4
13	6
14	67
15	12
16	2
17	13
18	47
19	3
20	8
21	19
22	3
23	4
24	49
25	41
26	71
27	27
28	8
29	4
30	3
31	81
32	31
33	63
34	11
35	26

95.78%

Passive voice overuse

Target: ≤2% passive sentences

passiveCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"was gone"

100.00%

Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse

Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs

pastProgressiveCount

totalVerbs

110

matches

0	"wasn't looking"

0.00%

Em-dash & semicolon overuse

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

emDashCount

semicolonCount

flaggedSentences

totalSentences

ratio

0.121

matches

0	"The oak standing stones marked the boundary the way a held breath marks the moment before a scream, and Rory felt the change before she saw it — a pressure against her eardrums, like diving too fast into a pool."
1	"Wildflowers rioted underfoot — poppies and bluebells and things she didn't have names for, blooming in defiance of the season, in defiance of each other."
2	"The ground gave slightly beneath her boots, springy, like moss over stone, and every few steps the flowers changed colour without her noticing the transition — poppies to something the blue of a bruise, bluebells to a white that glowed faintly of its own accord."
3	"Somewhere off to the left, water moved — not the gurgle of a stream but something slower, more deliberate, like the sound of a large creature breathing."
4	"Rory swallowed and kept moving, spine a little straighter, chin a little higher, the way she used to walk past Evan's mates outside the pub back in Cardiff — like fear was a coat she could simply decide not to wear."
5	"Ahead, the golden light deepened into something richer, amber shot through with threads of violet, and she heard music for the first time — not a melody exactly, more the memory of one, half-formed and constantly reforming, like wind chimes made of glass and regret."
6	"Through a gap in the flowers, Rory caught her first glimpse of the pool at the hollow's centre — black water, so still it looked solid, holding no reflection of the strange sky above it."

97.21%

Purple prose (modifier overload)

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

wordCount	741
adjectiveStacks	0
stackExamples	(empty)
adverbCount	32
adverbRatio	0.043184885290148446
lyAdverbCount	10
lyAdverbRatio	0.01349527665317139

100.00%

Repeated phrase echo

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

totalSentences	58
echoCount	0
echoWords	(empty)

100.00%

Sentence length variance

Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts

totalSentences

mean

std

13.3

0.831

sampleLengths

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

95.98%

Sentence opener variety

Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers

consecutiveRepeats	1
diversityRatio	0.5862068965517241
totalSentences	58
uniqueOpeners	34

100.00%

Adverb-first sentence starts

Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb

adverbCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"Somewhere off to the left,"

ratio

0.033

100.00%

Pronoun-first sentence starts

Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun

pronounCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"She straightened, wiping her palm"
1	"She didn't go looking for"
2	"She stopped walking."
3	"she said, crouching over one"
4	"She thought of the crescent"
5	"She stepped through the gap"

ratio

0.2

26.67%

Subject-first sentence starts

Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject

subjectCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"The oak standing stones marked"
1	"Nyx flowed ahead of her,"
2	"The pendant at her throat"
3	"Rory pressed two fingers against"
4	"The world on the other"
5	"Richmond Park's grey October evening"
6	"Wildflowers rioted underfoot — poppies"
7	"A bee the size of"
8	"The air smelled of crushed"
9	"Every breath left a faint"
10	"Rory turned in a slow"
11	"The ground gave slightly beneath"
12	"Rory crouched to touch one"
13	"She straightened, wiping her palm"
14	"She didn't go looking for"
15	"She stopped walking."
16	"The Shade's violet eyes found"
17	"Rory swallowed and kept moving,"
18	"The trees thinned."
19	"A path of pale stones"

ratio

0.867

0.00%

Subordinate conjunction sentence starts

Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction

subConjCount	0
totalSentences	30
matches	(empty)
ratio	0

0.00%

Technical jargon density

Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns

analyzedSentences

technicalSentenceCount

matches

0	"In its place stretched a clearing bathed in a light that came from nowhere and everywhere, gold-green, like sun through new leaves except there was no sun to be…"
1	"Rory turned in a slow circle, taking in the ring of ancient oaks that seemed both close enough to touch and impossibly far, their canopies knitting overhead int…"
2	"The ground gave slightly beneath her boots, springy, like moss over stone, and every few steps the flowers changed colour without her noticing the transition — …"
3	"The path curved around an outcrop of silver-grey stone, veined with something that glittered like crushed starlight, and beyond it the ground dipped into a holl…"
4	"She thought of the crescent scar on her wrist, old and pale, a mark from a world that made sense, and pressed her thumb against it."

100.00%

Useless dialogue additions

Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments

totalTags	9
uselessAdditionCount	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)

Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags

totalTags

fancyCount

fancyTags

0	"Nyx agreed (agree)"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.267

leniency

0.533

rawRatio

0.125

effectiveRatio

0.067

85.8435%