Run: 2026-10-08-01M4DA8AG7P3ZBQXR9AM2KMXC0

Run Details

Model:: Claude Haiku 5.5 (Adaptive)
Test:: Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:: Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin
Duration:: 16.8s
Cost:: $0.001638
Provider:: Claude Platform on AWS

Evaluation summary

Score	Evaluator	Details Link
100.00%	Adverbs in dialogue tags	(details)
87.11%	AI-ism adverb frequency	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism character names	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism location names	(details)
80.67%	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)
65.77%	Name drop frequency	(details)
100.00%	Narrator intent-glossing	(details)
71.13%	"Not X but Y" pattern overuse	(details)
100.00%	Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)	(details)
100.00%	Paragraph length variance	(details)
99.32%	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)
78.87%	Sentence opener variety	(details)
75.76%	Adverb-first sentence starts	(details)
100.00%	Pronoun-first sentence starts	(details)
16.82%	Subject-first sentence starts	(details)
0.00%	Subordinate conjunction sentence starts	(details)
87.91%	Technical jargon density	(details)
86.54%	Useless dialogue additions	(details)
34.62%	Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)	(details)
86.1507%	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 from the bracken like the knuckles of something buried and patient. Rory counted them as she passed between the second pair. Nine. She had counted nine on the way in, and she was almost certain there had been eight. She stopped counting.

Isolde walked ahead without disturbing a single stem. Rory watched for it, the bend of grass under a heel, the flattened dew, and found nothing. Silver hair swung down the seer's back, and not one crumb of Richmond's mud clung to her boots.

"Keep to the line of my hem," Isolde said, without turning. "The ground here remembers the feet it likes."

Nyx drifted at Rory's left shoulder, a stretch of darkness that had not been there a moment ago. It thinned and thickened like smoke deciding on a shape. Where the last of the afternoon light touched them, they swallowed it.

"The ground doesn't remember anything," Nyx whispered. Their voice slid through the air like wind finding a gap under a door. "It's listening."

Rory's hand drifted to the pendant beneath her jumper. The Heartstone sat warm against her breastbone, a slow, steady throb, like a second pulse that didn't belong to her. Not hot. Not yet. She had felt it flare once before, in a cramped stairwell in Soho, when a Hel portal had cracked open two streets away. Whatever this place was, it sat on the same thin membrane as Dymas, and the stone knew it.

"The pendant's pulsing," she said.

"Good," Isolde said. "It would be worrying if it didn't."

"That's not an answer."

"No," Isolde agreed, and kept walking.

The Fae blade rode on Rory's hip, its leather sheath tucked under her coat. Moonsilver never warmed. It stayed cold through the leather and cold through the lining of her coat, and it had been cold in her hand in the car park, cold in the lift of the car, cold on the bracken. That told her nothing, because it was always cold. She rested her palm on the hilt anyway, the way a person pats a pocket for keys.

The trees thinned. Oaks gave way to a ring of silver birch, their bark peeling in papery curls that didn't stir in the still air. Beyond them lay a clearing, and Rory stopped so suddenly that Nyx flickered into a thin ribbon of dark and pooled again at her ankles.

Wildflowers covered the ground in a carpet that rolled down a gentle slope toward a pool of black water. Foxgloves stood beside primroses. Heather bloomed in a shade of violet that didn't exist anywhere she had ever looked, and between them grew something with blue petals as bright as spilt ink. It was November. Frost should have been silvering every blade of grass. Instead the air smelled of honey and cut hay and something sharper underneath, like the metal tang that lingered after a lightning strike.

"Year-round," Rory said. "You told me that. I didn't think you meant it literally."

"I rarely mean anything literally," Isolde said. "It saves me the bother of being misunderstood."

Rory pulled back her left sleeve and looked at her watch. The second hand hung motionless on the twelve. She tapped the glass. Nothing. The crescent scar on her wrist itched beneath the strap, the way it always did when something was wrong with time.

"We came in at four," she said. "It's gone ten minutes."

"It has been ten minutes for you," Isolde said. "Ask me again when we leave."

Nyx glided toward the water. Where their shadow touched the surface, the black pool went briefly, impossibly bright, and then showed them not their reflections but a sky full of bruised purple clouds, a sky Rory had never seen over Cardiff or London. Something moved far beneath the surface of the image, a long pale shape turning over, slow as a sleeper rolling in bed.

Nyx recoiled into themselves. "Not that," they whispered. "Not yet."

"Nobody rushes the lake," Isolde said. "It has been waiting far longer than either of you."

The wind stirred the flowers all at once. Every bloom along the slope turned its face, slow and deliberate, toward the three of them, the way a crowd turns to a stranger who has walked into a room without knocking.

Rory's hand closed around the hilt of the blade. The cold bit into her palm.

"Isolde," she said. "Are they looking at us, or at what we're carrying?"

The seer smiled, and Rory understood that the question had been answered, and that she had not liked the answer.

"Walk slowly," Isolde said. "And tell me which you'd rather be."

Evaluation details

Result

Evaluator

Details

Meta Data

100.00%

Adverbs in dialogue tags

Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs

totalTags	13
adverbTagCount	0
adverbTags	(empty)
dialogueSentences	25
tagDensity	0.52
leniency	1
rawRatio	0
effectiveRatio	0

87.11%

AI-ism adverb frequency

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

wordCount

776

totalAiIsmAdverbs

found

adverb	"suddenly"
count	1

adverb	"slowly"
count	1

highlights

0	"suddenly"
1	"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)

80.67%

AI-ism word frequency

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

wordCount

776

totalAiIsms

found

word	"throb"
count	1

word	"pulse"
count	1

word	"flickered"
count	1

highlights

0	"throb"
1	"pulse"
2	"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	59
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	71
gibberishSentences	0
adjustedGibberishSentences	0
longSentenceCount	0
runOnParagraphCount	0
giantParagraphCount	0
wordSaladCount	0
repetitionLoopCount	0
controlTokenCount	0
repeatedSegmentCount	0
maxSentenceWordsSeen	38
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Markdown formatting overuse

Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting

markdownSpans	0
markdownWords	0
totalWords	776
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)

Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks

totalAttributions	15
unquotedAttributions	0
matches	(empty)

65.77%

Name drop frequency

Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words

totalMentions

wordCount

653

uniqueNames

maxNameDensity

1.68

worstName

"Rory"

maxWindowNameDensity

2.5

worstWindowName

"Rory"

discoveredNames

Richmond	1
Nyx	5
Rory	11
Heartstone	1
Soho	1
Hel	1
Dymas	1
Isolde	8
Fae	1
November	1
Cardiff	1
London	1

persons

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

places

0	"Richmond"
1	"Soho"
2	"Cardiff"
3	"London"

globalScore

0.658

windowScore

0.833

100.00%

Narrator intent-glossing

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

analyzedSentences	34
glossingSentenceCount	0
matches	(empty)

71.13%

"Not X but Y" pattern overuse

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

totalMatches

per1kWords

1.289

wordCount

776

matches

0	"not their reflections but a sky full of bruised purple clouds, a sky Rory had never se"

100.00%

Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)

Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses

thatCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"understood that the"

100.00%

Paragraph length variance

Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts

totalParagraphs

mean

29.85

std

24.12

0.808

sampleLengths

0	46
1	43
2	19
3	40
4	23
5	74
6	5
7	10
8	4
9	6
10	80
11	50
12	86
13	14
14	15
15	45
16	11
17	15
18	65
19	10
20	16
21	40
22	15
23	13
24	20
25	11

99.32%

Passive voice overuse

Target: ≤2% passive sentences

passiveCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"been answered"

100.00%

Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse

Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs

pastProgressiveCount	0
totalVerbs	108
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Em-dash & semicolon overuse

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

emDashCount	0
semicolonCount	0
flaggedSentences	0
totalSentences	71
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Purple prose (modifier overload)

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

wordCount	653
adjectiveStacks	0
stackExamples	(empty)
adverbCount	20
adverbRatio	0.030627871362940276
lyAdverbCount	3
lyAdverbRatio	0.004594180704441042

100.00%

Repeated phrase echo

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

totalSentences	71
echoCount	0
echoWords	(empty)

100.00%

Sentence length variance

Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts

totalSentences

mean

10.93

std

8.49

0.776

sampleLengths

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

78.87%

Sentence opener variety

Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers

consecutiveRepeats	4
diversityRatio	0.5070422535211268
totalSentences	71
uniqueOpeners	36

75.76%

Adverb-first sentence starts

Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb

adverbCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"Instead the air smelled of"

ratio

0.023

100.00%

Pronoun-first sentence starts

Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun

pronounCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"She had counted nine on"
1	"She stopped counting."
2	"It thinned and thickened like"
3	"Their voice slid through the"
4	"She had felt it flare"
5	"It stayed cold through the"
6	"She rested her palm on"
7	"It was November."
8	"She tapped the glass."

ratio

0.205

16.82%

Subject-first sentence starts

Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject

subjectCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"The standing stones rose from"
1	"Rory counted them as she"
2	"She had counted nine on"
3	"She stopped counting."
4	"Isolde walked ahead without disturbing"
5	"Rory watched for it, the"
6	"Isolde said, without turning"
7	"Nyx drifted at Rory's left"
8	"It thinned and thickened like"
9	"Their voice slid through the"
10	"Rory's hand drifted to the"
11	"The Heartstone sat warm against"
12	"She had felt it flare"
13	"Whatever this place was, it"
14	"Isolde agreed, and kept walking"
15	"The Fae blade rode on"
16	"Moonsilver never warmed."
17	"It stayed cold through the"
18	"That told her nothing, because"
19	"She rested her palm on"

ratio

0.886

0.00%

Subordinate conjunction sentence starts

Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction

subConjCount	0
totalSentences	44
matches	(empty)
ratio	0

87.91%

Technical jargon density

Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns

analyzedSentences

technicalSentenceCount

matches

0	"The Heartstone sat warm against her breastbone, a slow, steady throb, like a second pulse that didn't belong to her."
1	"Instead the air smelled of honey and cut hay and something sharper underneath, like the metal tang that lingered after a lightning strike."

86.54%

Useless dialogue additions

Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments

totalTags

uselessAdditionCount

matches

0	"Isolde said, without turning"

34.62%

Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)

Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags

totalTags

fancyCount

fancyTags

0	"Nyx whispered (whisper)"
1	"Isolde agreed (agree)"
2	"they whispered (whisper)"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.52

leniency

rawRatio

0.231

effectiveRatio

0.231

86.1507%