Run: 2026-10-08-01M4D9ZH86VBHV4AW2HBNPZJ61

Run Details

Model:: Claude Haiku 5.5 (Adaptive)
Test:: Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:: Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin
Duration:: 20.5s
Cost:: $0.001822
Provider:: Claude Platform on AWS

Evaluation summary

Score	Evaluator	Details Link
100.00%	Adverbs in dialogue tags	(details)
95.07%	AI-ism adverb frequency	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism character names	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism location names	(details)
60.59%	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)
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)
99.78%	Passive voice overuse	(details)
100.00%	Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse	(details)
100.00%	Em-dash & semicolon overuse	(details)
92.32%	Purple prose (modifier overload)	(details)
100.00%	Repeated phrase echo	(details)
100.00%	Sentence length variance	(details)
74.30%	Sentence opener variety	(details)
100.00%	Adverb-first sentence starts	(details)
100.00%	Pronoun-first sentence starts	(details)
40.36%	Subject-first sentence starts	(details)
89.29%	Subordinate conjunction sentence starts	(details)
53.57%	Technical jargon density	(details)
69.44%	Useless dialogue additions	(details)
100.00%	Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)	(details)
91.6640%	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 oaks came first, or what Rory took for oaks until she stopped beside the nearest one and found the bark carved into a spiral that climbed past her head and kept climbing. Its trunk was wider than her Corsa. Its leaves hung motionless, though the wind had been stinging her cheeks all the way from Robin Hood Gate.

"Don't touch the bark," Isolde said. She had not turned around. Silver hair fell past her waist, catching what little light the dusk still offered, and she moved toward the ring of standing stones as if the ground were a polished floor and she had been walking it for three centuries. "It remembers hands."

Rory pulled her sleeve down over her left wrist, over the thin crescent scar, and kept her fingers well away from the wood.

Behind her, the shadow under the nearest stone thickened and lifted. Nyx unfolded from it the way smoke unfolds from a snuffed candle, a tall silhouette with edges that refused to settle, eyes burning a faint violet in a face that was not quite a face. When they spoke, the voice came like a whisper carried over water.

"You flinch at old things, Carter."

"I flinch at things that might bite."

"Everything here bites," Nyx said. "It simply takes its time about it."

Isolde reached the boundary stones and passed between two of them without slowing. Rory watched the grass where she stepped. The frost that furred the path behind them, the frost that whitened every blade of the park's dead November turf, did not take her weight. No prints. No crushed stems. Only a faint silver tremor in the air where her hair swung, as if the air had been disturbed by something that had already left.

Rory crossed the line of stones.

The change was not a door opening. It was more like stepping out of cold water into warm, a slow loosening in her chest, and then the cold of the park simply stopped existing. The sound of traffic on the far side of the trees vanished. Her footsteps made no noise at all.

Then the flowers.

They rose out of the grass in every direction, knee-high, waist-high in drifts. Bluebells crowded against foxgloves. Snowdrops pushed up through clumps of late-summer clover, and fat heather bloomed in a purple tide against the roots of a fallen oak that was, Rory could see, both fallen and standing, its crown reaching into one sky while its trunk lay in another. Petals drifted down in the still air without a breeze to carry them. Nothing dropped to the ground. Nothing gathered.

"Spring and autumn," Rory said, mostly to herself. "Both at once."

"Neither," Isolde said, glancing back at her with those pale lavender eyes. "The grove keeps the flowers it likes. It doesn't ask the calendar."

"That's not an answer."

"No. It's a shape of one. Take what fits your hand."

Rory pressed her lips together and said nothing. She had spent three years in lecture halls learning to pick apart a witness's evasions, and she knew a dodge when she heard one, even one wrapped in silk. Isolde could not lie. Rory had heard her say so once, in a voice like a bell struck underwater, but she had never claimed the woman could not bend the truth until it snapped into a new shape.

They walked on. The path was no path, only the gap between roots where the earth had worn smooth. Somewhere ahead, water ran over stone with a sound like someone whispering a long sentence, and beneath that sound came a hum. It was low and rhythmic, too even to be wind and too soft to be insects. Rory felt it in her molars before she heard it properly.

Her watch had stopped. She had checked it at the gate, reading seven forty-two in the orange glow of the streetlamp. Now the hands had stalled at the same point, but the second hand twitched, ran backward a full minute, then forward again, as if it could not decide which way the hour wanted to go.

"How long have we been in here?" she asked.

Nyx drifted level with her shoulder, their edges rippling like the surface of a pond. "Long enough that someone outside is already worried. Not long enough for them to have called anyone useful."

"That isn't comforting."

"I never claimed to comfort. I claimed to be accurate. There's a difference, and you're paying me for accuracy."

"I'm not paying you for anything."

"Not yet."

Rory ignored that and reached toward the chain beneath her collar. The Heartstone pendant lay warm against her breastbone, the way it always did, but this time the warmth bloomed into heat. She drew it out. The crimson stone glowed from inside, a steady ember, then brightened in sharp pulses, each one faster than the last.

She stopped walking. "It's doing that thing again."

Isolde turned fully around. For the first time since the stones, her expression sharpened. "Where?"

"What do you mean, where? It's going off like a smoke alarm."

"Not here," Isolde said slowly. "Below. Something beneath us has left a door open and keeps forgetting to lock it."

Rory's grip tightened on the pendant. The moonsilver blade at her hip, always cold, pressed a line of frost against her skin through her jacket. She did not remember drawing it. She noticed only that her hand was steady.

"Below what?" she said.

Nyx's violet eyes dimmed, then flared, then fixed on a point beyond the nearest stand of foxgloves, where the ground dipped toward a hollow ringed with roots. A low warmth rolled up from the hollow. It carried the scent of roasting fruit, of honey gone dark in a pan, of something sweet enough to turn sour on the tongue.

"Dymas has a long reach," Nyx whispered. "And a longer appetite."

Isolde began walking again, toward the hollow, leaving no mark behind her.

"Come," she said. "The grove has shown you its front room. Now we find out what it keeps in the cellar."

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 slowly [slowly]"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.321

leniency

0.643

rawRatio

0.111

effectiveRatio

0.071

95.07%

AI-ism adverb frequency

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

wordCount

1015

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)

60.59%

AI-ism word frequency

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

wordCount

1015

totalAiIsms

found

word	"whisper"
count	1

word	"weight"
count	1

word	"footsteps"
count	1

word	"silk"
count	1

word	"rhythmic"
count	1

word	"comforting"
count	1

word	"warmth"
count	2

highlights

0	"whisper"
1	"weight"
2	"footsteps"
3	"silk"
4	"rhythmic"
5	"comforting"
6	"warmth"

100.00%

Cliché density

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

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

100.00%

Emotion telling (show vs. tell)

Target: ≤3% sentences with emotion telling

emotionTells	0
narrationSentences	64
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Filter word density

Target: ≤3% sentences with filter/hedge words

filterCount

hedgeCount

narrationSentences

filterMatches

"watch"

hedgeMatches

(empty)

100.00%

Gibberish response detection

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

analyzedSentences	83
gibberishSentences	0
adjustedGibberishSentences	0
longSentenceCount	0
runOnParagraphCount	0
giantParagraphCount	0
wordSaladCount	0
repetitionLoopCount	0
controlTokenCount	0
repeatedSegmentCount	0
maxSentenceWordsSeen	45
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Markdown formatting overuse

Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting

markdownSpans	0
markdownWords	0
totalWords	1015
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)

Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks

totalAttributions	11
unquotedAttributions	0
matches	(empty)

83.33%

Name drop frequency

Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words

totalMentions

wordCount

831

uniqueNames

maxNameDensity

1.32

worstName

"Rory"

maxWindowNameDensity

2.5

worstWindowName

"Rory"

discoveredNames

Rory	11
Corsa	1
Robin	1
Hood	1
Gate	1
Isolde	7
November	1
Nyx	5
Heartstone	1

persons

0	"Rory"
1	"Robin"
2	"Hood"
3	"Gate"
4	"Isolde"
5	"Nyx"

places

(empty)

globalScore

0.838

windowScore

0.833

91.86%

Narrator intent-glossing

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

analyzedSentences

glossingSentenceCount

matches

0	"not quite a face"

100.00%

"Not X but Y" pattern overuse

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

totalMatches	0
per1kWords	0
wordCount	1015
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)

Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses

thatCount	0
totalSentences	83
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Paragraph length variance

Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts

totalParagraphs

mean

28.19

std

24.96

0.885

sampleLengths

0	59
1	54
2	23
3	58
4	6
5	7
6	12
7	75
8	6
9	53
10	3
11	81
12	11
13	24
14	4
15	11
16	75
17	68
18	56
19	9
20	33
21	3
22	19
23	6
24	2
25	56
26	8
27	15
28	12
29	20
30	39
31	4
32	59
33	11
34	12
35	21

99.78%

Passive voice overuse

Target: ≤2% passive sentences

passiveCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"been disturbed"

100.00%

Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse

Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs

pastProgressiveCount	0
totalVerbs	136
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Em-dash & semicolon overuse

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

emDashCount	0
semicolonCount	0
flaggedSentences	0
totalSentences	83
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

92.32%

Purple prose (modifier overload)

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

wordCount

835

adjectiveStacks

stackExamples

0	"lay warm against her"

adverbCount

adverbRatio

0.041916167664670656

lyAdverbCount

lyAdverbRatio

0.009580838323353293

100.00%

Repeated phrase echo

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

totalSentences	83
echoCount	0
echoWords	(empty)

100.00%

Sentence length variance

Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts

totalSentences

mean

12.23

std

9.8

0.801

sampleLengths

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

74.30%

Sentence opener variety

Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers

consecutiveRepeats	5
diversityRatio	0.4819277108433735
totalSentences	83
uniqueOpeners	40

100.00%

Adverb-first sentence starts

Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb

adverbCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"Only a faint silver tremor"
1	"Then the flowers."
2	"Somewhere ahead, water ran over"

ratio

0.054

100.00%

Pronoun-first sentence starts

Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun

pronounCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"Its trunk was wider than"
1	"Its leaves hung motionless, though"
2	"She had not turned around."
3	"It was more like stepping"
4	"Her footsteps made no noise"
5	"They rose out of the"
6	"She had spent three years"
7	"They walked on."
8	"It was low and rhythmic,"
9	"Her watch had stopped."
10	"She had checked it at"
11	"She drew it out."
12	"She stopped walking."
13	"She did not remember drawing"
14	"She noticed only that her"
15	"It carried the scent of"

ratio

0.286

40.36%

Subject-first sentence starts

Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject

subjectCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"The oaks came first, or"
1	"Its trunk was wider than"
2	"Its leaves hung motionless, though"
3	"She had not turned around."
4	"Rory pulled her sleeve down"
5	"Nyx unfolded from it the"
6	"Isolde reached the boundary stones"
7	"Rory watched the grass where"
8	"The frost that furred the"
9	"Rory crossed the line of"
10	"The change was not a"
11	"It was more like stepping"
12	"The sound of traffic on"
13	"Her footsteps made no noise"
14	"They rose out of the"
15	"Bluebells crowded against foxgloves."
16	"Snowdrops pushed up through clumps"
17	"Petals drifted down in the"
18	"Nothing dropped to the ground."
19	"Rory said, mostly to herself"

ratio

0.839

89.29%

Subordinate conjunction sentence starts

Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction

subConjCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"Now the hands had stalled"

ratio

0.018

53.57%

Technical jargon density

Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns

analyzedSentences

technicalSentenceCount

matches

0	"Silver hair fell past her waist, catching what little light the dusk still offered, and she moved toward the ring of standing stones as if the ground were a pol…"
1	"Nyx unfolded from it the way smoke unfolds from a snuffed candle, a tall silhouette with edges that refused to settle, eyes burning a faint violet in a face tha…"
2	"Only a faint silver tremor in the air where her hair swung, as if the air had been disturbed by something that had already left."
3	"Snowdrops pushed up through clumps of late-summer clover, and fat heather bloomed in a purple tide against the roots of a fallen oak that was, Rory could see, b…"

69.44%

Useless dialogue additions

Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments

totalTags

uselessAdditionCount

matches

0	"Rory said, mostly to herself"

100.00%

Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)

Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags

totalTags

fancyCount

fancyTags

0	"Nyx whispered (whisper)"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.321

leniency

0.643

rawRatio

0.111

effectiveRatio

0.071

91.6640%