Run: 2026-10-08-01M4DA2Y0X5D1ZDP5TSP1CC7ZC

Run Details

Model:: Claude Haiku 5.5 (Reasoning, Medium)
Test:: Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:: Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin
Duration:: 15.0s
Cost:: $0.001367
Provider:: Claude Platform on AWS

Evaluation summary

Score	Evaluator	Details Link
0.00%	Adverbs in dialogue tags	(details)
85.29%	AI-ism adverb frequency	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism character names	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism location names	(details)
65.69%	AI-ism word frequency	(details)
100.00%	Cliché density	(details)
100.00%	Emotion telling (show vs. tell)	(details)
72.60%	Filter word density	(details)
100.00%	Gibberish response detection	(details)
100.00%	Markdown formatting overuse	(details)
100.00%	Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)	(details)
78.14%	Name drop frequency	(details)
100.00%	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)
88.01%	Passive voice overuse	(details)
100.00%	Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse	(details)
100.00%	Em-dash & semicolon overuse	(details)
100.00%	Purple prose (modifier overload)	(details)
100.00%	Repeated phrase echo	(details)
100.00%	Sentence length variance	(details)
63.81%	Sentence opener variety	(details)
100.00%	Adverb-first sentence starts	(details)
91.43%	Pronoun-first sentence starts	(details)
49.29%	Subject-first sentence starts	(details)
0.00%	Subordinate conjunction sentence starts	(details)
79.83%	Technical jargon density	(details)
69.44%	Useless dialogue additions	(details)
94.44%	Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)	(details)
84.5992%	Overall

Model input

System

You are an expert novelist with a gift for vivid, immersive prose. You write in tight third-person limited point of view with a strong narrative voice. Your prose is clean, precise, and engaging — you favor strong verbs, concrete details, and natural-sounding dialogue.

You will be given a story bible (codex) containing canonical details about characters, locations, items, and lore. Use these details to ground your writing in the established world. Stay consistent with the codex.

Write only the prose of the scene. Do not include titles, chapter headings, markdown formatting, or any commentary before or after the scene.

User/Human

<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>

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.

Model response

The oaks at the boundary were older than anything Rory had ever touched. Their bark was furrowed and silver-grey, and their trunks leaned toward one another like old men sharing a secret. Richmond Park lay behind them, the orange smear of the city glowing through the trees, the hum of the A3 a faint and fading thing. Ahead, the grass rose in a slow green swell into a clearing that should not have been there.

"Don't count the stones," Isolde said. She did not look back as she spoke. Her silver hair moved against her waist with every step, catching what little light the evening offered. "Counting them is how one gets stuck."

"Right," Rory said. "Good to know. Nobody thought to mention that in the brochure."

Beside her, Nyx made a sound that might have been a laugh, soft as a breath drawn over the lip of a bottle. The Shade's outline wavered at the edge of Rory's vision, a tall figure cut from the dusk, and their violet eyes flickered like coals someone had forgotten to bank. They had not yet fully taken on solid form. They preferred the in-between, drifting from the shadow of one oak to the next, always a little ahead of the group, always a little out of reach.

"It is not a joke," Nyx whispered. The voice seemed to come from the wind rather than from any throat. "The grove keeps what it takes."

The last of the standing stones passed to their left. Rory felt it before she saw it: a pressure against her skin, like stepping into the lee of a heavy wave. Her ears popped. The sound of the city vanished so completely that she heard her own pulse in the quiet.

Then the grove opened around them.

The clearing was ringed with wildflowers. Foxgloves stood tall and purple beside clusters of white anemone, and bluebells spilled down the banks of a stream that ran without a sound. Yet the air was cool with the sharp edge of late autumn, and frost lay on the stones of the stream bed, while the flowers bloomed on as though spring had never ended. Bees drifted among them, heavy and slow. Rory watched one settle on a petal, close its wings, and remain still for so long she began to wonder whether it had died there.

"It's always like this," Isolde said. "The flowers do not know the season. They only know they are loved."

Rory glanced down at the ground and frowned. The grass beneath her boots was flattened where she had walked, the dew pressed into dark prints. Isolde had walked the same path a moment ago. There was no trace of her at all, only the bright, unbroken green where her feet should have been.

She swallowed and said nothing about it.

Her wrist itched beneath her sleeve, where the small crescent scar sat pale against her skin. Her fingers found the chain at her throat, and through the thin silver she felt the Heartstone Pendant. It was warm. Not the warmth of her body, but something deeper, a slow pulse like a second heartbeat tucked beneath her collarbone. She had felt it grow warm near the Hel portal in the Soho alley, a fortnight back, and she had told herself it was the heat of the crowd. It was not crowded here. The grove was empty except for the four of them, and still the pendant beat faintly against her chest, insistent as a knock on a door.

"You feel it," Isolde said, without turning around. It was not a question. Isolde could not lie, so she rarely bothered to ask questions she already knew the answer to.

"Feel what?"

"The grove is listening to the stone at your throat. The stone is listening to the grove. Between them, they are having a conversation you are not invited to join." Isolde stopped at the edge of the stream and finally looked back. Her lavender eyes caught the light of the flowers. "Be careful what you answer, Aurora Carter. The grove asks politely, but it does not forget."

Rory's hand tightened on the chain. Nyx had drifted down to the water's edge, where a thin mist rose from the stream, and their figure bled into it, reforming on the far bank. For a moment Rory could see straight through them, into the reeds beyond. Then the shadow thickened into a tall, solid shape with a face that was almost human and eyes that burned brighter.

"Someone has been here before us," Nyx said quietly. "Recently."

Rory followed their gaze. Pressed into the mud on the far bank was a line of footprints. They were long and narrow, and they led into the trees, toward the centre of the grove, where something pale glimmered between the trunks. Rory could not tell what it was. The light there seemed to bend, folding in on itself like paper held too close to a flame.

The blade at her hip was cold through her coat, the moonsilver hilt pressing against her palm as her fingers found it. It had been cold since Isolde gave it to her, a cold that never warmed, not even in her hand. It was not cold now. It was thrumming, faintly luminous, though there was no moon overhead, only a sky the colour of pewter and a single star that had not been there a minute ago.

"Isolde," Rory said slowly. "Did we come in before the sun set?"

The seer smiled, and it was not a comforting expression.

"Time is a river in this place," she said. "You may step into it for a minute and climb out a week older. Or you may find that the sun has already risen, and you have forgotten to notice it. I cannot tell you which. I can only tell you that you should walk quickly, and that you should not look for the footprints that lead away from us."

Rory looked at the path ahead. Then, despite herself, she looked for the footprints, and found that they were already gone.

Evaluation details

Result

Evaluator

Details

Meta Data

0.00%

Adverbs in dialogue tags

Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs

totalTags

adverbTagCount

adverbTags

0	"Nyx said quietly [quietly]"
1	"Rory said slowly [slowly]"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.5

leniency

rawRatio

0.222

effectiveRatio

0.222

85.29%

AI-ism adverb frequency

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

wordCount

1020

totalAiIsmAdverbs

found

adverb	"completely"
count	1

adverb	"slowly"
count	1

adverb	"quickly"
count	1

highlights

0	"completely"
1	"slowly"
2	"quickly"

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)

65.69%

AI-ism word frequency

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

wordCount

1020

totalAiIsms

found

word	"furrowed"
count	1

word	"wavered"
count	1

word	"flickered"
count	1

word	"pulse"
count	2

word	"warmth"
count	1

word	"comforting"
count	1

highlights

0	"furrowed"
1	"wavered"
2	"flickered"
3	"pulse"
4	"warmth"
5	"comforting"

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	61
matches	(empty)

72.60%

Filter word density

Target: ≤3% sentences with filter/hedge words

filterCount

hedgeCount

narrationSentences

filterMatches

(empty)

hedgeMatches

0	"seemed to"
1	"began to"

100.00%

Gibberish response detection

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

analyzedSentences	70
gibberishSentences	0
adjustedGibberishSentences	0
longSentenceCount	0
runOnParagraphCount	0
giantParagraphCount	0
wordSaladCount	0
repetitionLoopCount	0
controlTokenCount	0
repeatedSegmentCount	0
maxSentenceWordsSeen	60
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Markdown formatting overuse

Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting

markdownSpans	0
markdownWords	0
totalWords	1020
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)

Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks

totalAttributions	10
unquotedAttributions	0
matches	(empty)

78.14%

Name drop frequency

Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words

totalMentions

wordCount

835

uniqueNames

maxNameDensity

1.44

worstName

"Rory"

maxWindowNameDensity

2.5

worstWindowName

"Rory"

discoveredNames

Rory	12
Park	1
Nyx	4
Shade	1
Heartstone	1
Pendant	1
Hel	1
Soho	1
Isolde	7

persons

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

places

0	"Park"
1	"Hel"
2	"Soho"

globalScore

0.781

windowScore

0.833

100.00%

Narrator intent-glossing

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

analyzedSentences	47
glossingSentenceCount	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

"Not X but Y" pattern overuse

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

totalMatches

per1kWords

0.98

wordCount

1020

matches

0	"Not the warmth of her body, but something deeper, a slow pulse like a second heartbeat tucke"

100.00%

Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)

Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses

thatCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"found that they"

100.00%

Paragraph length variance

Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts

totalParagraphs

mean

44.35

std

32.79

0.739

sampleLengths

0	75
1	38
2	14
3	88
4	26
5	51
6	6
7	95
8	19
9	53
10	7
11	117
12	30
13	2
14	67
15	67
16	10
17	66
18	77
19	12
20	10
21	69
22	21

88.01%

Passive voice overuse

Target: ≤2% passive sentences

passiveCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"was furrowed"
1	"was ringed"
2	"was flattened"

100.00%

Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse

Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs

pastProgressiveCount

totalVerbs

128

matches

0	"was thrumming"

100.00%

Em-dash & semicolon overuse

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

emDashCount	0
semicolonCount	0
flaggedSentences	0
totalSentences	70
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Purple prose (modifier overload)

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

wordCount	837
adjectiveStacks	0
stackExamples	(empty)
adverbCount	29
adverbRatio	0.03464755077658303
lyAdverbCount	10
lyAdverbRatio	0.011947431302270013

100.00%

Repeated phrase echo

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

totalSentences	70
echoCount	0
echoWords	(empty)

100.00%

Sentence length variance

Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts

totalSentences

mean

14.57

std

10.32

0.708

sampleLengths

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

63.81%

Sentence opener variety

Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers

consecutiveRepeats	7
diversityRatio	0.44285714285714284
totalSentences	70
uniqueOpeners	31

100.00%

Adverb-first sentence starts

Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb

adverbCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"Then the grove opened around"
1	"Then the shadow thickened into"
2	"Then, despite herself, she looked"

ratio

0.054

91.43%

Pronoun-first sentence starts

Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun

pronounCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"Their bark was furrowed and"
1	"She did not look back"
2	"Her silver hair moved against"
3	"They had not yet fully"
4	"They preferred the in-between, drifting"
5	"Her ears popped."
6	"She swallowed and said nothing"
7	"Her wrist itched beneath her"
8	"Her fingers found the chain"
9	"It was warm."
10	"She had felt it grow"
11	"It was not crowded here."
12	"It was not a question."
13	"Her lavender eyes caught the"
14	"They were long and narrow,"
15	"It had been cold since"
16	"It was not cold now."
17	"It was thrumming, faintly luminous,"

ratio

0.321

49.29%

Subject-first sentence starts

Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject

subjectCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"The oaks at the boundary"
1	"Their bark was furrowed and"
2	"Richmond Park lay behind them,"
3	"She did not look back"
4	"Her silver hair moved against"
5	"The Shade's outline wavered at"
6	"They had not yet fully"
7	"They preferred the in-between, drifting"
8	"The voice seemed to come"
9	"The last of the standing"
10	"Rory felt it before she"
11	"Her ears popped."
12	"The sound of the city"
13	"The clearing was ringed with"
14	"Foxgloves stood tall and purple"
15	"Bees drifted among them, heavy"
16	"Rory watched one settle on"
17	"Rory glanced down at the"
18	"The grass beneath her boots"
19	"Isolde had walked the same"

ratio

0.821

0.00%

Subordinate conjunction sentence starts

Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction

subConjCount	0
totalSentences	56
matches	(empty)
ratio	0

79.83%

Technical jargon density

Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns

analyzedSentences

technicalSentenceCount

matches

0	"Foxgloves stood tall and purple beside clusters of white anemone, and bluebells spilled down the banks of a stream that ran without a sound."
1	"Then the shadow thickened into a tall, solid shape with a face that was almost human and eyes that burned brighter."
2	"It was thrumming, faintly luminous, though there was no moon overhead, only a sky the colour of pewter and a single star that had not been there a minute ago."

69.44%

Useless dialogue additions

Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments

totalTags

uselessAdditionCount

matches

0	"Isolde said, without turning around"

94.44%

Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)

Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags

totalTags

fancyCount

fancyTags

0	"Nyx whispered (whisper)"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.444

leniency

0.889

rawRatio

0.125

effectiveRatio

0.111

84.5992%