Run: 2026-10-08-01M4E0YFJXD28XMCDRHGS816CE

Run Details

Model:: Claude Haiku 5.5 (Reasoning, Low)
Test:: Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:: Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin
Duration:: 14.1s
Cost:: $0.001261
Provider:: Claude Platform on AWS

Evaluation summary

Score	Evaluator	Details Link
100.00%	Adverbs in dialogue tags	(details)
73.46%	AI-ism adverb frequency	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism character names	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism location names	(details)
52.23%	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)
99.87%	Name drop frequency	(details)
47.96%	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)
93.76%	Passive voice overuse	(details)
100.00%	Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse	(details)
100.00%	Em-dash & semicolon overuse	(details)
94.00%	Purple prose (modifier overload)	(details)
100.00%	Repeated phrase echo	(details)
100.00%	Sentence length variance	(details)
75.80%	Sentence opener variety	(details)
100.00%	Adverb-first sentence starts	(details)
74.55%	Pronoun-first sentence starts	(details)
78.18%	Subject-first sentence starts	(details)
0.00%	Subordinate conjunction sentence starts	(details)
81.63%	Technical jargon density	(details)
53.57%	Useless dialogue additions	(details)
44.74%	Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)	(details)
84.7450%	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 oak stones stood in a ring at the edge of the bracken, black with age and furred with moss, and Aurora Carter did not like how quiet the park had become behind her. The traffic on Richmond Hill had faded to nothing. No dog barked. No jogger's trainers slapped the gravel. There was only the wind moving through the bracken, and the faint, almost musical hum that seemed to rise from the stones themselves.

"Don't step between the second and third," Isolde said. She had not looked back to see whether they followed. "The ground there is thinner than it appears."

Aurora stopped at the boundary, her boots half on the path and half on turf that looked no different from any other. Her left wrist ached where the old crescent scar sat, a dull throb she had long ago stopped noticing except on days like this. She pulled her sleeve down over it.

Beside her, Nyx flowed out of the shadow of the nearest oak and took shape the way ink takes shape in water. First a suggestion of a tall figure, then a silhouette, then something almost solid, though the outline kept shivering at its edges. Their eyes were faint violet points in the gloom.

"You're nervous," Nyx whispered. The voice seemed to come from the wind rather than their mouth.

"I'm cautious. There's a difference."

"Is there?"

Isolde laughed softly, and the sound carried further than it should have. She was already walking between the stones, silver hair falling to her waist and catching what little light there was. Her footsteps made no sound on the grass. When Aurora looked down, the ground behind the seer lay smooth and unmarked, as though no one had ever crossed it.

Aurora swallowed and followed.

The moment she crossed the ring, the air changed. It was warmer, and it smelled of crushed thyme and rain on warm stone. The noise of the world fell away so completely that her own heartbeat seemed loud. She heard her breath, the creak of leather, and beneath it all a sound like a thousand threads being plucked very gently.

Then she saw the flowers.

They covered the clearing in drifts of white, gold, and a blue so deep it looked wet. Foxgloves stood taller than her head. Bluebells curled up the trunks of trees whose bark shifted in colour, silver one moment and green the next. Late summer blossoms opened beside frost-bright crocuses, and neither seemed to notice the other. Butterflies drifted through them, but their wings were the colour of stained glass, and when one passed through a shaft of light it left a faint trail that hung in the air for a heartbeat before fading.

"It's February," Aurora said, to no one in particular.

"Here, it is always the season that has not yet been argued into ending," Isolde said. She had stopped beneath a tree whose branches were heavy with pale fruit. "Do not eat anything. Not because it will harm you. Because you will want to stay."

Aurora kept her hands in her jacket pockets. Her fingers found the Heartstone pendant through the lining, and she felt it stir against her ribs.

It was not a dramatic thing. Only a warmth, faint and deliberate, like a hand pressed briefly to her chest. She had felt it twice before, both times near the pale scar-lines of a Hel portal, and her pulse quickened in recognition.

She drew it out of her collar and let it lie against her palm. The crimson stone glowed from within, a steady ember. Her silver chain was cold against her skin, but the stone was warm.

"Something here is close to Dymas," she said.

Isolde turned her head, lavender eyes catching the light. "Something here is close to everything, little Carter. That is what makes it dangerous."

"That's not an answer."

"It is an answer that has not yet been asked correctly."

Nyx drifted closer, their shadow stretching over the flowers without crushing a single petal. "The pendant is singing," they murmured. "Do you hear it?"

Aurora shook her head, but as she listened, the threaded hum beneath the clearing shifted. It rose in pitch, then dipped, and in the dip she heard something else: voices, faint and far away, laughing over a clatter of plates and a rush of wine being poured.

Her skin prickled. Above her, the shadows under the branches lengthened without any sun to cast them.

She drew the Fae blade from the sheath at her hip. The moonsilver came free with a whisper, slender and leaf-shaped, and its cold bit into her palm even through her glove. In the strange light of the clearing, it gleamed faintly, like moonlight trapped in metal.

"Put that away," Isolde said, not unkindly. "You will not need it yet. And when you do, you will wish you had kept your hands free."

"Is that a riddle?"

"Everything I say is a riddle, to someone who listens too hard."

Aurora sheathed the blade. Ahead, the clearing narrowed into a path between two trees that leaned together like conspirators, and beyond them the air shimmered faintly, a distortion like heat over a road. The Veil, she thought, though she had no idea how she knew the word, and the knowledge sat uneasily in her chest.

She took one step toward it. Then another.

Behind her, Nyx's whisper came softly through the perfumed air. "Rory. We have been here an hour."

She glanced back at the ring of stones. The sky above them had turned the colour of old honey, and she could not remember when that had happened.

Evaluation details

Result

Evaluator

Details

Meta Data

100.00%

Adverbs in dialogue tags

Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs

totalTags	7
adverbTagCount	0
adverbTags	(empty)
dialogueSentences	19
tagDensity	0.368
leniency	0.737
rawRatio	0
effectiveRatio	0

73.46%

AI-ism adverb frequency

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

wordCount

942

totalAiIsmAdverbs

found

adverb	"softly"
count	2

adverb	"completely"
count	1

adverb	"very"
count	1

adverb	"gently"
count	1

highlights

0	"softly"
1	"completely"
2	"very"
3	"gently"

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)

52.23%

AI-ism word frequency

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

wordCount

942

totalAiIsms

found

word	"throb"
count	1

word	"gloom"
count	1

word	"footsteps"
count	1

word	"warmth"
count	1

word	"pulse"
count	1

word	"quickened"
count	1

word	"whisper"
count	2

word	"shimmered"
count	1

highlights

0	"throb"
1	"gloom"
2	"footsteps"
3	"warmth"
4	"pulse"
5	"quickened"
6	"whisper"
7	"shimmered"

100.00%

Cliché density

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

totalCliches

maxInWindow

found

label	"hung in the air"
count	1

highlights

0	"hung in the air"

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"

100.00%

Gibberish response detection

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

analyzedSentences	73
gibberishSentences	0
adjustedGibberishSentences	0
longSentenceCount	0
runOnParagraphCount	0
giantParagraphCount	0
wordSaladCount	0
repetitionLoopCount	0
controlTokenCount	0
repeatedSegmentCount	0
maxSentenceWordsSeen	37
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Markdown formatting overuse

Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting

markdownSpans	0
markdownWords	0
totalWords	942
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)

Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks

totalAttributions	8
unquotedAttributions	0
matches	(empty)

99.87%

Name drop frequency

Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words

totalMentions

wordCount

798

uniqueNames

maxNameDensity

worstName

"Aurora"

maxWindowNameDensity

1.5

worstWindowName

"Aurora"

discoveredNames

Aurora	8
Carter	1
Richmond	1
Hill	1
Nyx	4
Isolde	5
Heartstone	1
Hel	1
Fae	1
Veil	1

persons

0	"Aurora"
1	"Carter"
2	"Nyx"
3	"Isolde"

places

0	"Richmond"
1	"Hill"

globalScore

0.999

windowScore

47.96%

Narrator intent-glossing

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

analyzedSentences

glossingSentenceCount

matches

0	"hum that seemed to rise from the stones themselves"
1	"seemed loud"

100.00%

"Not X but Y" pattern overuse

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

totalMatches	0
per1kWords	0
wordCount	942
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)

Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses

thatCount	0
totalSentences	73
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Paragraph length variance

Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts

totalParagraphs

mean

29.44

std

23.28

0.791

sampleLengths

0	75
1	27
2	53
3	53
4	16
5	5
6	2
7	61
8	4
9	60
10	5
11	93
12	9
13	45
14	25
15	42
16	36
17	8
18	23
19	4
20	11
21	24
22	47
23	17
24	47
25	26
26	4
27	12
28	55
29	8
30	17
31	28

93.76%

Passive voice overuse

Target: ≤2% passive sentences

passiveCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"being plucked"
1	"being poured"

100.00%

Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse

Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs

pastProgressiveCount

totalVerbs

131

matches

0	"was already walking"

100.00%

Em-dash & semicolon overuse

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

emDashCount	0
semicolonCount	0
flaggedSentences	0
totalSentences	73
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

94.00%

Purple prose (modifier overload)

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

wordCount

801

adjectiveStacks

stackExamples

0	"beside frost-bright crocuses,"

adverbCount

adverbRatio

0.03495630461922597

lyAdverbCount

lyAdverbRatio

0.01373283395755306

100.00%

Repeated phrase echo

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

totalSentences	73
echoCount	0
echoWords	(empty)

100.00%

Sentence length variance

Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts

totalSentences

mean

12.9

std

7.75

0.6

sampleLengths

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

75.80%

Sentence opener variety

Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers

consecutiveRepeats	3
diversityRatio	0.4794520547945205
totalSentences	73
uniqueOpeners	35

100.00%

Adverb-first sentence starts

Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb

adverbCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"Then she saw the flowers."
1	"Only a warmth, faint and"

ratio

0.036

74.55%

Pronoun-first sentence starts

Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun

pronounCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"She had not looked back"
1	"Her left wrist ached where"
2	"She pulled her sleeve down"
3	"Their eyes were faint violet"
4	"She was already walking between"
5	"Her footsteps made no sound"
6	"It was warmer, and it"
7	"She heard her breath, the"
8	"They covered the clearing in"
9	"She had stopped beneath a"
10	"Her fingers found the Heartstone"
11	"It was not a dramatic"
12	"She had felt it twice"
13	"She drew it out of"
14	"Her silver chain was cold"
15	"It rose in pitch, then"
16	"Her skin prickled."
17	"She drew the Fae blade"
18	"She took one step toward"
19	"She glanced back at the"

ratio

0.364

78.18%

Subject-first sentence starts

Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject

subjectCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"The oak stones stood in"
1	"The traffic on Richmond Hill"
2	"She had not looked back"
3	"Aurora stopped at the boundary,"
4	"Her left wrist ached where"
5	"She pulled her sleeve down"
6	"Their eyes were faint violet"
7	"The voice seemed to come"
8	"Isolde laughed softly, and the"
9	"She was already walking between"
10	"Her footsteps made no sound"
11	"Aurora swallowed and followed."
12	"The moment she crossed the"
13	"It was warmer, and it"
14	"The noise of the world"
15	"She heard her breath, the"
16	"They covered the clearing in"
17	"Foxgloves stood taller than her"
18	"Bluebells curled up the trunks"
19	"Butterflies drifted through them, but"

ratio

0.764

0.00%

Subordinate conjunction sentence starts

Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction

subConjCount	0
totalSentences	55
matches	(empty)
ratio	0

81.63%

Technical jargon density

Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns

analyzedSentences

technicalSentenceCount

matches

0	"There was only the wind moving through the bracken, and the faint, almost musical hum that seemed to rise from the stones themselves."
1	"Butterflies drifted through them, but their wings were the colour of stained glass, and when one passed through a shaft of light it left a faint trail that hung…"
2	"Ahead, the clearing narrowed into a path between two trees that leaned together like conspirators, and beyond them the air shimmered faintly, a distortion like …"

53.57%

Useless dialogue additions

Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments

totalTags

uselessAdditionCount

matches

0	"Isolde said, not unkindly"

44.74%

Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)

Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags

totalTags

fancyCount

fancyTags

0	"Nyx whispered (whisper)"
1	"they murmured (murmur)"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.368

leniency

0.737

rawRatio

0.286

effectiveRatio

0.211

84.7450%