Run: 2026-10-08-01M4DAC4SGG7FYEV98ZZ6VZQGW

Run Details

Model:: Claude Haiku 5.5 (Reasoning, Medium)
Test:: Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:: Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin
Duration:: 14.3s
Cost:: $0.001329
Provider:: Claude Platform on AWS

Evaluation summary

Score	Evaluator	Details Link
100.00%	Adverbs in dialogue tags	(details)
83.68%	AI-ism adverb frequency	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism character names	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism location names	(details)
67.36%	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)
49.62%	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)
94.47%	Passive voice overuse	(details)
40.00%	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)
92.64%	Sentence opener variety	(details)
100.00%	Adverb-first sentence starts	(details)
100.00%	Pronoun-first sentence starts	(details)
49.29%	Subject-first sentence starts	(details)
0.00%	Subordinate conjunction sentence starts	(details)
47.62%	Technical jargon density	(details)
75.00%	Useless dialogue additions	(details)
100.00%	Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)	(details)
86.6557%	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 out of the bracken like the knuckles of something buried, black oak gone silver with age. Rory counted nine of them before she stopped counting. Rain had soaked through her trainers twenty minutes ago, somewhere between the Richmond gate and the bracken, and she had stopped noticing the cold in her toes when the path simply ended.

Isolde walked ahead of them without looking back. Her silver hair hung loose to her waist, and it moved on no wind Rory could feel. Where her feet should have pressed the wet earth, the ground stayed unmarked.

"Don't touch the stones," Isolde said. "They remember hands."

"Brilliant," Rory said. "Anything else we shouldn't do?"

"Breathe too deeply. The air here is older than your lungs."

Nyx drifted at the edge of the group, a long figure cut from the dusk itself. Where the light from the lamp caught them, their outline flickered, and the violet glow of their eyes dimmed and brightened like a pulse. Their voice came from somewhere behind Rory's left ear, a whisper pushed along by a draught that wasn't there.

"She means the place keeps what it takes," Nyx said. "Sometimes it gives back a different version."

Rory shifted her rucksack higher on her shoulders. The Fae blade sat against her spine in its sheath, and even through the canvas and her jacket, it leeched heat from her skin. Always cold, Isolde had said when she pressed it into Rory's hands. Cold until it isn't. Rory had not asked what that meant. She was starting to regret the omission.

The chain of the Heartstone pendant lay against her collarbone, and the stone beneath her shirt had begun to warm. Not hot. Just present, like a hand resting on her chest.

"Is it supposed to do that?" she asked.

Isolde stopped at the gap between the two tallest stones. "It knows the way in. You are carrying something that is listening."

"That's not an answer."

"No," Isolde agreed, and stepped through.

Rory followed, because the alternative was standing in the rain with a half-Fae seer and a shadow who had been dead since 1643, and that suddenly seemed the less sensible choice.

The air changed first. The damp, peaty smell of the park vanished, replaced by something sweet and green, like cut stems and warm honey. Then the sound went. The distant traffic on Sheen Road, the wet hush of the trees, the drip from her hair all dropped away together, leaving a silence so full it pressed against her ears.

Then the sound came back, one thread at a time. Water somewhere, falling in small, patient drops. Bees, or something that hummed like bees but was too low and too slow. A bird call with three notes, repeated, and then a fourth that did not belong to any bird Rory had ever heard.

She looked down and stopped walking.

Wildflowers covered the ground. Foxgloves, bluebells, poppies the colour of a fresh bruise, and clusters of white blooms she couldn't name, all growing in a dense tangle that reached her knees. Some were in full flower. Others were pushing up through the petals of the ones beside them, buds opening even as she watched. It was late October. She knew that. Her phone had told her so an hour ago, and the leaves on the oaks outside had been turning brown at the edges.

"Year-round," Isolde said, without turning. "The flowers do not know the calendar. They only know the light, and the light here belongs to no season."

The light was strange. It came from nowhere in particular, a warm amber haze that hung at the height of the trees and did not cast shadows as it should. Rory glanced down at her own feet. Her shadow was there, but thin, as though the light had decided it was not worth bothering with.

Nyx drifted closer to her, and when Rory looked at them, she saw that their edges had softened into the amber. Their shadow pooled on the grass in a way that looked deliberate, almost curious, stretching toward the bluebells and then drawing back.

"It's tasting you," Nyx said quietly. "Shadows always know when something is new to them."

"Lovely."

They walked on. The path, if it was a path, wound between trunks of enormous age. Each oak bore carvings in its bark, spirals and interlocking lines that Rory's eyes kept sliding off, as if the patterns were designed to resist being read. Some of the carvings were fresh. Sap still beaded in the grooves.

Rory stopped beside one, careful not to touch. "Who's doing this?"

"Everyone who came before you," Isolde said. "And a few who never left."

The pendant pulsed against her skin, harder this time, and Rory pressed a hand over it without meaning to. Ahead, the trees thinned, and through their trunks she caught a glimpse of a pool, perfectly still, its surface holding a sky that was not the sky above them. Deep red clouds turned slowly over it, and in the reflection, something tall and shapeless moved between them and was gone.

Rory's grip tightened on the strap of her rucksack. She did not look away from the water.

"Isolde," she said. "What's in the pool?"

Isolde stopped. For the first time since they had stepped through the stones, she turned around, and her pale lavender eyes met Rory's with an expression that was almost apologetic.

"Something that is also looking at you," she said.

Evaluation details

Result

Evaluator

Details

Meta Data

100.00%

Adverbs in dialogue tags

Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs

totalTags

adverbTagCount

adverbTags

0	"Nyx said quietly [quietly]"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.455

leniency

0.909

rawRatio

0.1

effectiveRatio

0.091

83.68%

AI-ism adverb frequency

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

wordCount

919

totalAiIsmAdverbs

found

adverb	"suddenly"
count	1

adverb	"perfectly"
count	1

adverb	"slowly"
count	1

highlights

0	"suddenly"
1	"perfectly"
2	"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)

67.36%

AI-ism word frequency

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

wordCount

919

totalAiIsms

found

word	"could feel"
count	1

word	"flickered"
count	1

word	"pulse"
count	1

word	"whisper"
count	1

word	"silence"
count	1

word	"pulsed"
count	1

highlights

0	"could feel"
1	"flickered"
2	"pulse"
3	"whisper"
4	"silence"
5	"pulsed"

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	65
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Filter word density

Target: ≤3% sentences with filter/hedge words

filterCount	0
hedgeCount	0
narrationSentences	65
filterMatches	(empty)
hedgeMatches	(empty)

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	32
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Markdown formatting overuse

Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting

markdownSpans	0
markdownWords	0
totalWords	919
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)

Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks

totalAttributions	12
unquotedAttributions	0
matches	(empty)

49.62%

Name drop frequency

Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words

totalMentions

wordCount

797

uniqueNames

maxNameDensity

2.01

worstName

"Rory"

maxWindowNameDensity

3.5

worstWindowName

"Rory"

discoveredNames

Richmond	1
Rory	16
Nyx	4
Fae	2
Isolde	8
Heartstone	1
Sheen	1
Road	1
October	1

persons

0	"Rory"
1	"Nyx"
2	"Isolde"

places

0	"Richmond"
1	"Sheen"
2	"Road"

globalScore

0.496

windowScore

0.5

100.00%

Narrator intent-glossing

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

analyzedSentences	44
glossingSentenceCount	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

"Not X but Y" pattern overuse

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

totalMatches	0
per1kWords	0
wordCount	919
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)

Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses

thatCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"saw that their"

100.00%

Paragraph length variance

Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts

totalParagraphs

mean

29.65

std

23.3

0.786

sampleLengths

0	61
1	38
2	9
3	8
4	11
5	59
6	17
7	62
8	31
9	8
10	22
11	4
12	6
13	31
14	59
15	53
16	6
17	84
18	25
19	55
20	43
21	15
22	1
23	55
24	11
25	13
26	69
27	17
28	7
29	30
30	9

94.47%

Passive voice overuse

Target: ≤2% passive sentences

passiveCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"were designed"
1	"was gone"

40.00%

Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse

Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs

pastProgressiveCount

totalVerbs

125

matches

0	"was starting"
1	"was standing"
2	"were pushing"

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)

100.00%

Purple prose (modifier overload)

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

wordCount	798
adjectiveStacks	0
stackExamples	(empty)
adverbCount	31
adverbRatio	0.03884711779448621
lyAdverbCount	5
lyAdverbRatio	0.006265664160401002

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

11.94

std

8.5

0.712

sampleLengths

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

92.64%

Sentence opener variety

Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers

consecutiveRepeats	2
diversityRatio	0.5714285714285714
totalSentences	77
uniqueOpeners	44

100.00%

Adverb-first sentence starts

Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb

adverbCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"Always cold, Isolde had said"
1	"Just present, like a hand"
2	"Then the sound went."
3	"Then the sound came back,"

ratio

0.071

100.00%

Pronoun-first sentence starts

Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun

pronounCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"Her silver hair hung loose"
1	"Their voice came from somewhere"
2	"She was starting to regret"
3	"She looked down and stopped"
4	"It was late October."
5	"She knew that."
6	"Her phone had told her"
7	"It came from nowhere in"
8	"Her shadow was there, but"
9	"Their shadow pooled on the"
10	"They walked on."
11	"She did not look away"

ratio

0.214

49.29%

Subject-first sentence starts

Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject

subjectCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"The standing stones rose out"
1	"Rory counted nine of them"
2	"Rain had soaked through her"
3	"Isolde walked ahead of them"
4	"Her silver hair hung loose"
5	"Nyx drifted at the edge"
6	"Their voice came from somewhere"
7	"Rory shifted her rucksack higher"
8	"The Fae blade sat against"
9	"Rory had not asked what"
10	"She was starting to regret"
11	"The chain of the Heartstone"
12	"Isolde stopped at the gap"
13	"Isolde agreed, and stepped through"
14	"Rory followed, because the alternative"
15	"The air changed first."
16	"The damp, peaty smell of"
17	"The distant traffic on Sheen"
18	"Water somewhere, falling in small,"
19	"Bees, or something that hummed"

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

47.62%

Technical jargon density

Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns

analyzedSentences

technicalSentenceCount

matches

0	"Rory followed, because the alternative was standing in the rain with a half-Fae seer and a shadow who had been dead since 1643, and that suddenly seemed the les…"
1	"Foxgloves, bluebells, poppies the colour of a fresh bruise, and clusters of white blooms she couldn't name, all growing in a dense tangle that reached her knees…"
2	"Their shadow pooled on the grass in a way that looked deliberate, almost curious, stretching toward the bluebells and then drawing back."
3	"For the first time since they had stepped through the stones, she turned around, and her pale lavender eyes met Rory's with an expression that was almost apolog…"

75.00%

Useless dialogue additions

Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments

totalTags

uselessAdditionCount

matches

0	"Isolde said, without turning"

100.00%

Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)

Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags

totalTags

fancyCount

fancyTags

0	"Isolde agreed (agree)"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.455

leniency

0.909

rawRatio

0.1

effectiveRatio

0.091

86.6557%