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via OpenCode CLI · judged by Fable 5 and Gemini 3.7 Flash and GPT-5.6 Sol
Results from run ‘first’: ten items, 30 verdicts.
The record: 10 items · 30 verdicts · 0 errors · 2,978 words on average · est. generation cost $0.42
Six dimensions, each marked 1–5, averaged over ten items and all judges.
Mean craft mark by dimension · 30 verdicts, run ‘first’
Scene is the strongest dimension (3.60); integration the weakest (3.20). Hover or focus a bar for the per-judge means.
Each item receives one verdict from each judge; the spread of the dots is the disagreement.
Headline score per item, by judge · run ‘first’
| Item | Headline | Fable 5 | Gemini 3.7 Flash | GPT-5.6 Sol | Words |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Secret Garden item 013 · after ch. 2 · Frances Hodgson Burnett | 0.68 | 0.63 | 0.75 | 0.67 | 3,266 |
| The Moonstone item 011 · after ch. 8 · Wilkie Collins | 0.65 | 0.67 | 0.71 | 0.57 | 3,295 |
| The War of the Worlds item 006 · after ch. 1 · H. G. Wells | 0.65 | 0.64 | 0.64 | 0.68 | 3,232 |
| Persuasion item 001 · after ch. 1 · Jane Austen | 0.61 | 0.63 | 0.75 | 0.46 | 3,381 |
| The Awakening item 016 · after ch. 7 · Kate Chopin | 0.57 | 0.63 | 0.59 | 0.47 | 2,294 |
| The Mysterious Affair at Styles item 017 · after ch. 3 · Agatha Christie | 0.55 | 0.53 | 0.75 | 0.38† | 2,965 |
| Dracula item 015 · after ch. 5 · Bram Stoker | 0.53 | 0.60 | 0.64 | 0.34 | 2,645 |
| The Sun Also Rises item 021 · after ch. 3 · Ernest Hemingway | 0.48 | 0.59 | 0.50 | 0.36 | 2,154 |
| Leave It to Psmith item 022 · after ch. 3 · P. G. Wodehouse | 0.39 | 0.50 | 0.32 | 0.35 | 3,985 |
| Red Harvest item 023 · after ch. 2 · Dashiell Hammett | 0.38 | 0.44 | 0.44 | 0.28 | 2,563 |
† The widest judge split in the run: Gemini 3.7 Flash 0.75 against GPT-5.6 Sol 0.38 on The Mysterious Affair at Styles (item 017).
Words written per item, against each brief’s maximum.
Word count per item vs. brief maximum · run ‘first’
Two of ten items landed inside their brief’s word range. The Secret Garden and The Moonstone and The War of the Worlds and Persuasion and The Awakening and The Mysterious Affair at Styles and Dracula and Leave It to Psmith ran over by 866 and 495 and 632 and 781 and 494 and 165 and 45 and 1,185 words respectively.
Each verdict names the chapter’s single worst flaw, with evidence. Quoted verbatim from run ‘first’.
Elizabeth's brief-mandated reversal is executed as a flat, out-of-voice announcement ("I will support Anne in this. Let us do something that will really be of use"), with the narrator then telling us at length how surprising it is, so the chapter's central novelty reads as the assignment's mouthpiece rather than the character's own turn.
The invented letter at the chapter's centre breaks continuity in three directions at once — dated from London while Lady Verinder was demonstrably at home in Yorkshire, citing an Indian encounter "last year" that never happened, and never connected by Betteredge to the three Indians who appeared at the house that very afternoon.
The chapter introduces a severe chronological contradiction by having Ogilvy claim the narrator was at the observatory 'last night', conflating the telescopic observations made months earlier during the opposition with the stroll the narrator took with his wife immediately prior to the missile's impact.
The chapter lets the assignment show through the fiction — most fatally in the narrator's aside \"That was my named employee\" and again in an ending that parrots the brief's phrasing (\"the question of where the check went still open\"), so the required beats read as checked boxes rather than story.
Automated screening results across the ten outputs.