Run: 2026-10-08-01M4D9Z1M5R0NCS6HY0TY4B20T

Run Details

Model:: Claude Haiku 5.5 (Reasoning, Medium)
Test:: Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:: Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin
Duration:: 17.4s
Cost:: $0.001488
Provider:: Claude Platform on AWS

Evaluation summary

Score	Evaluator	Details Link
100.00%	Adverbs in dialogue tags	(details)
95.32%	AI-ism adverb frequency	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism character names	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism location names	(details)
85.96%	AI-ism word frequency	(details)
100.00%	Cliché density	(details)
100.00%	Emotion telling (show vs. tell)	(details)
68.97%	Filter word density	(details)
100.00%	Gibberish response detection	(details)
100.00%	Markdown formatting overuse	(details)
100.00%	Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)	(details)
81.88%	Name drop frequency	(details)
85.90%	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)
99.21%	Passive voice overuse	(details)
100.00%	Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse	(details)
100.00%	Em-dash & semicolon overuse	(details)
88.00%	Purple prose (modifier overload)	(details)
100.00%	Repeated phrase echo	(details)
100.00%	Sentence length variance	(details)
79.65%	Sentence opener variety	(details)
72.46%	Adverb-first sentence starts	(details)
80.87%	Pronoun-first sentence starts	(details)
36.09%	Subject-first sentence starts	(details)
100.00%	Subordinate conjunction sentence starts	(details)
50.69%	Technical jargon density	(details)
100.00%	Useless dialogue additions	(details)
94.44%	Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)	(details)
90.6480%	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 stones rose out of the bracken like the knuckles of something buried and patient. Rory counted them as she passed between the second pair, nine on the left and nine on the right, and lost count when the wind shifted and the trees began to hum.

"Don't touch the bark," Isolde said. She walked ahead of them without disturbing a single blade of grass. Her silver hair fell past her waist, and in the grey light of the park it seemed to hold its own luminance. "The oaks remember hands."

Nyx drifted at the back of the group, a column of shadow that bent around the tree trunks rather than passing through them. Where Rory's own shadow stretched long across the path, Nyx's barely touched it. Their violet eyes flickered in the dim light like embers someone had forgotten to smother.

"Remember hands," Nyx repeated, the voice carried on the breeze and barely louder than the rustle of leaves. "Which ones, I wonder. The ones that planted them or the ones that cut them down?"

"Both, if you're polite," Isolde said.

Rory stopped. The air had changed. It tasted of rain before the rain, sharp and metallic, and under it something sweeter, like crushed honey on a warm stone. She pressed her palm against the hollow of her throat and felt her pulse slow, as though her body had been told to take its time.

"Where's the park?" she asked. "We walked maybe fifty metres past the tea kiosk. There should be joggers. There should be a bloody dog barking somewhere."

"There was a kiosk," Isolde said. "It is still there. You will find it again when you need it, and not a moment before."

"That's not an answer."

"No," Isolde agreed, and smiled as if the refusal pleased her. "It is a truth. Mortals always mistake the two."

The trees opened into a clearing, and Rory forgot her irritation.

Wildflowers covered the ground in drifts of colour that had no business existing together. Foxgloves leaned against silver-leafed thistles. Blue cornflowers grew beside white anemones, and clusters of something with petals like spun sugar opened and closed in slow, lazy pulses. Bees the size of her thumb moved among them, humming a note that settled into her molars. It was summer in here, and spring, and autumn, all pressed into one moment. Somewhere a stream ran, though Rory could not see it.

She crouched and touched a violet. It was warm, like skin, and when she drew her hand back a faint dust of gold clung to her fingertips.

"Don't eat anything," Isolde said. "Not yet."

"I wasn't going to eat it."

"You were thinking about it. Your face wears its thoughts badly, Aurora. Your mother's daughter."

Rory's breath caught. She stood up slowly. "You didn't know my mother."

"I knew your mother's mother, who wore her hair in the same shape and gave the same warning about the rain." Isolde's pale lavender eyes met hers, unblinking and entirely serious. "I have never lied to you. I do not intend to start with a gentle one."

Nyx moved to the centre of the clearing and stopped where the grass grew tallest. The shadow they cast pooled and thickened until it seemed to hold a shape of its own, a tall figure with arms folded inside a cloak of night, and then it thinned again and Nyx stood solid, six foot two of pooled dark and aching quiet.

"There is a tear here," Nyx said. "Stretched thin. I can feel the pull of it on the back of my neck."

Rory followed their gaze. At the far edge of the clearing, between two oaks, the air rippled. It was the faintest distortion, like heat over a summer road, but it moved in a slow, deliberate wave, as if something on the other side had breathed out and was waiting to breathe in again.

"The Veil," she said.

"Thinner than it should be," Isolde said. "The solstice is near, and the barrier grows weakest when the year turns toward its darkest night. You see it because you have sight now. Before, you only felt the cold."

"I didn't ask to have sight."

"Nobody asks. They are simply given." Isolde stepped to the rippling air, and the shimmer bent around her outline, sliding over her like water over glass. She did not leave a mark in the soft earth when she turned back. Rory looked at the ground behind her and found nothing but flowers, unbent and untouched.

Her wrist throbbed. She rubbed the small crescent scar with her thumb, the way she always did when her body wanted to tell her something her head would not accept. Under her shirt, the Heartstone Pendant lay cool against her breastbone. It had been warm on the walk in, when the trees were only trees. Now it felt like a held breath.

"It's quiet," she said. "The pendant. It usually pulses near the Hel portals, but it's gone still."

"Because the portal is not here," Nyx said. "Yet you feel that it could be, the way one feels a door left ajar in another room. The stone listens to what is close, and this is not the place it fears."

"Fears?"

"Yes." Nyx turned their head toward the rippling air. "Ask me again when we leave."

Rory drew the Fae-Forged Blade from the sheath at her hip. Moonsilver caught the grey light and held it, and the metal was so cold against her palm that her fingers ached within seconds. The leaf-shaped edge gave off a faint luminescence, a soft silver halo that brightened as she turned toward the ripple in the air. Her breath clouded in front of her, though the air was warm as a bath.

"It's responding," she said.

"It knows the shape of what it was made to cut," Isolde said quietly. "Do not put it to that test yet. Walk. Look. Listen. The Grove will show you what it wishes you to see, and it will not be gentle about the rest."

Rory slid the blade back into its sheath. She looked once more at the wildflowers, the bees, the impossible colours, and then at the shimmering tear between the oaks. Behind her, the trees hummed in a low chord, and the sound settled into her bones like a question nobody had yet bothered to ask.

Evaluation details

Result

Evaluator

Details

Meta Data

100.00%

Adverbs in dialogue tags

Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs

totalTags

adverbTagCount

adverbTags

0	"Isolde said quietly [quietly]"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.472

leniency

0.944

rawRatio

0.059

effectiveRatio

0.056

95.32%

AI-ism adverb frequency

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

wordCount

1068

totalAiIsmAdverbs

found

adverb	"slowly"
count	1

highlights

"slowly"

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)

85.96%

AI-ism word frequency

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

wordCount

1068

totalAiIsms

found

word	"flickered"
count	1

word	"pulse"
count	1

word	"throbbed"
count	1

highlights

0	"flickered"
1	"pulse"
2	"throbbed"

100.00%

Cliché density

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

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

100.00%

Emotion telling (show vs. tell)

Target: ≤3% sentences with emotion telling

emotionTells	0
narrationSentences	58
matches	(empty)

68.97%

Filter word density

Target: ≤3% sentences with filter/hedge words

filterCount

hedgeCount

narrationSentences

filterMatches

(empty)

hedgeMatches

0	"began to"
1	"seemed to"

100.00%

Gibberish response detection

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

analyzedSentences	77
gibberishSentences	0
adjustedGibberishSentences	0
longSentenceCount	0
runOnParagraphCount	0
giantParagraphCount	0
wordSaladCount	0
repetitionLoopCount	0
controlTokenCount	0
repeatedSegmentCount	0
maxSentenceWordsSeen	46
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Markdown formatting overuse

Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting

markdownSpans	0
markdownWords	0
totalWords	1068
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)

Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks

totalAttributions	17
unquotedAttributions	0
matches	(empty)

81.88%

Name drop frequency

Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words

totalMentions

wordCount

734

uniqueNames

maxNameDensity

1.36

worstName

"Rory"

maxWindowNameDensity

2.5

worstWindowName

"Isolde"

discoveredNames

Rory	10
Nyx	8
Isolde	9
Heartstone	1
Pendant	1
Fae-Forged	1
Blade	1

persons

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

places

(empty)

globalScore

0.819

windowScore

0.833

85.90%

Narrator intent-glossing

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

analyzedSentences

glossingSentenceCount

matches

0	"felt like a held breath"

100.00%

"Not X but Y" pattern overuse

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

totalMatches	0
per1kWords	0
wordCount	1068
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)

Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses

thatCount	0
totalSentences	77
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Paragraph length variance

Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts

totalParagraphs

mean

31.41

std

22.38

0.712

sampleLengths

0	48
1	44
2	51
3	34
4	6
5	54
6	26
7	24
8	4
9	20
10	11
11	82
12	27
13	7
14	6
15	15
16	12
17	47
18	61
19	22
20	53
21	4
22	38
23	6
24	55
25	62
26	17
27	41
28	1
29	15
30	72
31	4
32	45
33	54

99.21%

Passive voice overuse

Target: ≤2% passive sentences

passiveCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"been told"

100.00%

Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse

Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs

pastProgressiveCount

totalVerbs

123

matches

0	"was waiting"

100.00%

Em-dash & semicolon overuse

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

emDashCount	0
semicolonCount	0
flaggedSentences	0
totalSentences	77
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

88.00%

Purple prose (modifier overload)

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

wordCount

737

adjectiveStacks

stackExamples

0	"against silver-leafed thistles."
1	"lay cool against her"

adverbCount

adverbRatio

0.027137042062415198

lyAdverbCount

lyAdverbRatio

0.008141112618724558

100.00%

Repeated phrase echo

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

totalSentences	77
echoCount	0
echoWords	(empty)

100.00%

Sentence length variance

Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts

totalSentences

mean

13.87

std

9.45

0.681

sampleLengths

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

79.65%

Sentence opener variety

Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers

consecutiveRepeats	2
diversityRatio	0.4935064935064935
totalSentences	77
uniqueOpeners	38

72.46%

Adverb-first sentence starts

Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb

adverbCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"Somewhere a stream ran, though"

ratio

0.022

80.87%

Pronoun-first sentence starts

Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun

pronounCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"She walked ahead of them"
1	"Her silver hair fell past"
2	"Their violet eyes flickered in"
3	"It tasted of rain before"
4	"She pressed her palm against"
5	"It was summer in here,"
6	"She crouched and touched a"
7	"It was warm, like skin,"
8	"She stood up slowly."
9	"It was the faintest distortion,"
10	"She did not leave a"
11	"Her wrist throbbed."
12	"She rubbed the small crescent"
13	"It had been warm on"
14	"Her breath clouded in front"
15	"She looked once more at"

ratio

0.348

36.09%

Subject-first sentence starts

Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject

subjectCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"The oak stones rose out"
1	"Rory counted them as she"
2	"She walked ahead of them"
3	"Her silver hair fell past"
4	"Nyx drifted at the back"
5	"Their violet eyes flickered in"
6	"Nyx repeated, the voice carried"
7	"The air had changed."
8	"It tasted of rain before"
9	"She pressed her palm against"
10	"Isolde agreed, and smiled as"
11	"The trees opened into a"
12	"Wildflowers covered the ground in"
13	"Foxgloves leaned against silver-leafed thistles."
14	"Bees the size of her"
15	"It was summer in here,"
16	"She crouched and touched a"
17	"It was warm, like skin,"
18	"Rory's breath caught."
19	"She stood up slowly."

ratio

0.848

100.00%

Subordinate conjunction sentence starts

Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction

subConjCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"Now it felt like a"

ratio

0.022

50.69%

Technical jargon density

Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns

analyzedSentences

technicalSentenceCount

matches

0	"She pressed her palm against the hollow of her throat and felt her pulse slow, as though her body had been told to take its time."
1	"Bees the size of her thumb moved among them, humming a note that settled into her molars."
2	"It was the faintest distortion, like heat over a summer road, but it moved in a slow, deliberate wave, as if something on the other side had breathed out and wa…"
3	"The leaf-shaped edge gave off a faint luminescence, a soft silver halo that brightened as she turned toward the ripple in the air."

100.00%

Useless dialogue additions

Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments

totalTags	17
uselessAdditionCount	0
matches	(empty)

94.44%

Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)

Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags

totalTags

fancyCount

fancyTags

0	"Nyx repeated (repeat)"
1	"Isolde agreed (agree)"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.389

leniency

0.778

rawRatio

0.143

effectiveRatio

0.111

90.6480%