Run: 2026-10-09-01M4FXTWSVDFKXXSGJKPY3MN35

Run Details

Model:: Claude Haiku 5.5 (Reasoning, Low)
Test:: Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:: Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin
Duration:: 14.4s
Cost:: $0.001245
Provider:: Claude Platform on AWS

Evaluation summary

Score	Evaluator	Details Link
0.00%	Adverbs in dialogue tags	(details)
83.62%	AI-ism adverb frequency	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism character names	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism location names	(details)
72.71%	AI-ism word frequency	(details)
100.00%	Cliché density	(details)
100.00%	Emotion telling (show vs. tell)	(details)
87.91%	Filter word density	(details)
100.00%	Gibberish response detection	(details)
100.00%	Markdown formatting overuse	(details)
100.00%	Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)	(details)
90.87%	Name drop frequency	(details)
89.02%	Narrator intent-glossing	(details)
0.00%	"Not X but Y" pattern overuse	(details)
100.00%	Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)	(details)
100.00%	Paragraph length variance	(details)
78.27%	Passive voice overuse	(details)
100.00%	Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse	(details)
100.00%	Em-dash & semicolon overuse	(details)
91.16%	Purple prose (modifier overload)	(details)
100.00%	Repeated phrase echo	(details)
100.00%	Sentence length variance	(details)
77.60%	Sentence opener variety	(details)
100.00%	Adverb-first sentence starts	(details)
92.34%	Pronoun-first sentence starts	(details)
34.47%	Subject-first sentence starts	(details)
100.00%	Subordinate conjunction sentence starts	(details)
75.89%	Technical jargon density	(details)
13.89%	Useless dialogue additions	(details)
94.44%	Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)	(details)
82.7398%	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 at the edge of the bracken like a row of patient old men, their bark furred with lichen the color of weak tea. Rory counted them without meaning to. Eleven. She was sure there had been ten when she'd walked the path with Isolde's directions folded in her coat pocket, and she was less sure now that it mattered.

"Don't count them," Isolde said, not looking back. "They enjoy being miscounted."

The Seer walked ahead of them, silver hair loose to her waist and catching what little light came through the canopy. Her feet made no sound in the leaf litter. Rory watched for the faint crush of dead bracken beneath her boots and saw nothing, not even a flattened stem where Isolde had passed. It was the sort of detail she would have dismissed a month ago. Now she filed it away with the others.

Nyx drifted at the rear. Rory felt rather than saw them: a cooling at her back, a stretch of shadow under the trees that lingered a half-second too long after the trunks above had moved on. When she glanced over her shoulder, the shape resolved into a tall silhouette, six feet and some inches of living dark, faintly violet at the places where eyes should be.

"You're staring," Nyx whispered. The voice seemed to arrive on a breeze that wasn't there.

"You're shadowing me."

"I am the shadow. It's a considerable difference of perspective."

Rory huffed something that wasn't quite a laugh and turned back to the path. Her left wrist ached faintly, the old crescent scar pulling the way it always did when her nerves were stretched thin. She flexed her fingers. The Fae blade sat snug against her hip under her jacket, its moonsilver cold even through the lining, as it had been since Isolde pressed it into her hands. Beneath her collarbone, the Heartstone pendant lay quiet on its silver chain. It had been quiet all the way from London. She had half hoped it would stay that way.

Then the trees opened, and she forgot the pendant entirely.

The clearing was not large, but it did not seem to have edges. The grass rolled away in soft folds, and every fold was crowded with flowers: foxglove and primrose, harebells, clusters of white star-shaped blooms she didn't recognise, all open at once in a season that had no business being spring. Frost should have been silvering the ground in late autumn, and instead the air was warm and smelled of crushed thyme and rain that had not yet fallen. Butterflies the colour of stained glass turned lazy circles above the blossoms.

"Wildflowers bloom here year-round," Isolde said. She had stopped at the centre of the clearing, where a single ancient tree stood, its trunk split into three trunks that rose and twisted together like a braid. "Do not pick them. They do not wilt, but they do remember who has touched them."

"That's not ominous at all," Rory said.

"It is not meant to be ominous. It is meant to be remembered." Isolde smiled, and her pale lavender eyes creased at the corners. "You will forget that soon enough. Everyone does."

Rory crouched to look at a cluster of blue flowers near her boot. Each petal was edged with a fine silver line, like frost on glass, and when she leaned closer she heard it: a faint, high chiming, so quiet it might have been her own pulse. She stood quickly, shoved her hands into her pockets, and did not look at the flowers again.

Nyx had drifted to the edge of the clearing, where the shadows under the trees were thick as wet ink. They did not move, which was itself unsettling, since Nyx never stayed still. "Rory," they said softly. "Come here. Look at the ground."

She went. Between two roots, the earth had split into a fissure no wider than her palm, and the light that rose from it was not sunlight. It was amber, warm and shifting, like the glow of a lamp seen through honey. The air above it smelled suddenly of roasted meat and wine and something sweet that made her mouth water against her will. Somewhere far below, faint and rhythmic, a bell was ringing.

"Dymas," Isolde said quietly behind her. "Not a door. A window. Be glad it is shut."

The pendant at Rory's throat flared warm against her breastbone. It was not painful, only insistent, a heartbeat pressing outward through the silver chain. She pressed her palm over it. The warmth pulsed once more, then sank back into a steady glow.

"Right," Rory said, and was surprised by how steady her own voice sounded. "I think I'd like to know what time it is."

Isolde's smile deepened. "Time is a courtesy this place extends to guests. Check your watch in an hour, and you may find you have been gone a day. Or a week. Or no time at all." She turned toward the split tree, and the light caught her silver hair like spun wire. "Come. We are not here to stare at the ground. There is something you need to see before the grove decides you have seen enough."

Rory took one last look at the amber light, at the chiming flowers, at the shadow that was Nyx keeping watch beside her. Then she followed the Seer into the braided shade, and the warm air closed behind them like a held breath.

Evaluation details

Result

Evaluator

Details

Meta Data

0.00%

Adverbs in dialogue tags

Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs

totalTags

adverbTagCount

adverbTags

0	"they said softly [softly]"
1	"Isolde said quietly [quietly]"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.5

leniency

rawRatio

0.222

effectiveRatio

0.222

83.62%

AI-ism adverb frequency

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

wordCount

916

totalAiIsmAdverbs

found

adverb	"quickly"
count	1

adverb	"softly"
count	1

adverb	"suddenly"
count	1

highlights

0	"quickly"
1	"softly"
2	"suddenly"

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)

72.71%

AI-ism word frequency

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

wordCount

916

totalAiIsms

found

word	"resolved"
count	1

word	"pulse"
count	1

word	"rhythmic"
count	1

word	"warmth"
count	1

word	"pulsed"
count	1

highlights

0	"resolved"
1	"pulse"
2	"rhythmic"
3	"warmth"
4	"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

narrationSentences

matches

0	"was surprised"

87.91%

Filter word density

Target: ≤3% sentences with filter/hedge words

filterCount

hedgeCount

narrationSentences

filterMatches

(empty)

hedgeMatches

0	"seemed to"
1	"seem to"

100.00%

Gibberish response detection

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

analyzedSentences	61
gibberishSentences	0
adjustedGibberishSentences	0
longSentenceCount	0
runOnParagraphCount	0
giantParagraphCount	0
wordSaladCount	0
repetitionLoopCount	0
controlTokenCount	0
repeatedSegmentCount	0
maxSentenceWordsSeen	49
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Markdown formatting overuse

Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting

markdownSpans	0
markdownWords	0
totalWords	916
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)

Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks

totalAttributions	6
unquotedAttributions	0
matches	(empty)

90.87%

Name drop frequency

Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words

totalMentions

wordCount

761

uniqueNames

maxNameDensity

1.18

worstName

"Rory"

maxWindowNameDensity

worstWindowName

"Rory"

discoveredNames

Isolde	8
Seer	2
Fae	1
Heartstone	1
London	1
Rory	9
Nyx	5

persons

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

places

"London"

globalScore

0.909

windowScore

89.02%

Narrator intent-glossing

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

analyzedSentences

glossingSentenceCount

matches

0	"quite a laugh and turned back to the path"

0.00%

"Not X but Y" pattern overuse

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

totalMatches

per1kWords

2.183

wordCount

916

matches

0	"not large, but it did not seem to have edges"
1	"not wilt, but they do remember who has touched them"

100.00%

Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)

Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses

thatCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"stay that way"

100.00%

Paragraph length variance

Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts

totalParagraphs

mean

43.62

std

29.33

0.672

sampleLengths

0	63
1	12
2	75
3	66
4	15
5	3
6	10
7	98
8	10
9	92
10	51
11	7
12	32
13	64
14	43
15	74
16	16
17	42
18	23
19	77
20	43

78.27%

Passive voice overuse

Target: ≤2% passive sentences

passiveCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"been ten"
1	"were stretched"
2	"was edged"
3	"was surprised"

100.00%

Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse

Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs

pastProgressiveCount

totalVerbs

123

matches

0	"was ringing"

100.00%

Em-dash & semicolon overuse

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

emDashCount	0
semicolonCount	0
flaggedSentences	0
totalSentences	61
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

91.16%

Purple prose (modifier overload)

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

wordCount

763

adjectiveStacks

stackExamples

0	"white star-shaped blooms"

adverbCount

adverbRatio

0.04325032765399738

lyAdverbCount

lyAdverbRatio

0.010484927916120577

100.00%

Repeated phrase echo

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

totalSentences	61
echoCount	0
echoWords	(empty)

100.00%

Sentence length variance

Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts

totalSentences

mean

15.02

std

10.12

0.674

sampleLengths

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

77.60%

Sentence opener variety

Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers

consecutiveRepeats	1
diversityRatio	0.47540983606557374
totalSentences	61
uniqueOpeners	29

100.00%

Adverb-first sentence starts

Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb

adverbCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"Then the trees opened, and"
1	"Somewhere far below, faint and"
2	"Then she followed the Seer"

ratio

0.064

92.34%

Pronoun-first sentence starts

Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun

pronounCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"She was sure there had"
1	"Her feet made no sound"
2	"It was the sort of"
3	"Her left wrist ached faintly,"
4	"She flexed her fingers."
5	"It had been quiet all"
6	"She had half hoped it"
7	"She had stopped at the"
8	"She stood quickly, shoved her"
9	"They did not move, which"
10	"they said softly"
11	"It was amber, warm and"
12	"It was not painful, only"
13	"She pressed her palm over"
14	"She turned toward the split"

ratio

0.319

34.47%

Subject-first sentence starts

Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject

subjectCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"The oak stones stood at"
1	"Rory counted them without meaning"
2	"She was sure there had"
3	"Isolde said, not looking back"
4	"The Seer walked ahead of"
5	"Her feet made no sound"
6	"Rory watched for the faint"
7	"It was the sort of"
8	"Nyx drifted at the rear."
9	"Rory felt rather than saw"
10	"The voice seemed to arrive"
11	"Rory huffed something that wasn't"
12	"Her left wrist ached faintly,"
13	"She flexed her fingers."
14	"The Fae blade sat snug"
15	"It had been quiet all"
16	"She had half hoped it"
17	"The clearing was not large,"
18	"The grass rolled away in"
19	"Frost should have been silvering"

ratio

0.851

100.00%

Subordinate conjunction sentence starts

Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction

subConjCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"Now she filed it away"

ratio

0.021

75.89%

Technical jargon density

Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns

analyzedSentences

technicalSentenceCount

matches

0	"Rory felt rather than saw them: a cooling at her back, a stretch of shadow under the trees that lingered a half-second too long after the trunks above had moved…"
1	"The grass rolled away in soft folds, and every fold was crowded with flowers: foxglove and primrose, harebells, clusters of white star-shaped blooms she didn't …"
2	"Rory took one last look at the amber light, at the chiming flowers, at the shadow that was Nyx keeping watch beside her."

13.89%

Useless dialogue additions

Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments

totalTags

uselessAdditionCount

matches

0	"Isolde said, not looking back"
1	"She turned, and the light caught her silver hair like spun wire"

94.44%

Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)

Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags

totalTags

fancyCount

fancyTags

0	"Nyx whispered (whisper)"

dialogueSentences

tagDensity

0.389

leniency

0.778

rawRatio

0.143

effectiveRatio

0.111

82.7398%