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medium reasoning effort · via OpenCode CLI · judged by Fable 5 and Gemini 3.7 Flash and GPT-5.6 Sol · not the setting shown on the standings; also run at xhigh0.60 high0.58
Results from run ‘first’: ten items, 30 verdicts.
The record: 10 items · 30 verdicts · 0 errors · 2,543 words on average · est. generation cost $0.43
Six dimensions, each marked 1–5, averaged over ten items and all judges.
Mean craft mark by dimension · 30 verdicts, run ‘first’
Voice is the strongest dimension (3.73); momentum the weakest (3.43). 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 | 0.77 | 0.75 | 0.92 | 0.64† | 2,845 |
| Red Harvest item 023 · after ch. 2 · Dashiell Hammett | 0.67 | 0.71 | 0.79 | 0.51 | 2,336 |
| The War of the Worlds item 006 · after ch. 1 · H. G. Wells | 0.65 | 0.67 | 0.67 | 0.60 | 2,786 |
| Persuasion item 001 · after ch. 1 · Jane Austen | 0.64 | 0.62 | 0.71 | 0.58 | 2,503 |
| The Mysterious Affair at Styles item 017 · after ch. 3 · Agatha Christie | 0.64 | 0.64 | 0.68 | 0.60 | 2,345 |
| The Awakening item 016 · after ch. 7 · Kate Chopin | 0.62 | 0.67 | 0.71 | 0.47 | 2,314 |
| The Sun Also Rises item 021 · after ch. 3 · Ernest Hemingway | 0.55 | 0.67 | 0.55 | 0.44 | 2,098 |
| Leave It to Psmith item 022 · after ch. 3 · P. G. Wodehouse | 0.54 | 0.60 | 0.55 | 0.47 | 3,079 |
| The Moonstone item 011 · after ch. 8 · Wilkie Collins | 0.50 | 0.63 | 0.47 | 0.40 | 3,157 |
| Dracula item 015 · after ch. 5 · Bram Stoker | 0.41 | 0.53 | 0.32 | 0.37 | 1,970 |
† The widest judge split in the run: Gemini 3.7 Flash 0.92 against GPT-5.6 Sol 0.64 on The Secret Garden (item 013).
Words written per item, against each brief’s maximum.
Word count per item vs. brief maximum · run ‘first’
Five of ten items landed inside their brief’s word range. The Secret Garden and The War of the Worlds and The Awakening and Leave It to Psmith and The Moonstone ran over by 445 and 186 and 514 and 279 and 357 words respectively.
Each verdict names the chapter’s single worst flaw, with evidence. Quoted verbatim from run ‘first’.
The chapter is undermined by a cluster of internal contradictions — Rachel both arranging and being surprised by the early arrival, Penelope's dead mother asked after, the fisherman's wife/daughter muddle — capped by the seam-exposing aside that Miss Rachel \"does not appear in person in this part of my story,\" which reads as the brief talking rather than Betteredge.
The brief's scaffolding shows through at the hinge moments — the narration literally echoes the brief's wording (\"speaking aloud and in company,\" \"rejected this plan as outright as he had the former\") and Elizabeth's support for Anne is asserted more than earned — compounded by the raw textual corruption \"tossed it withTemplate slight contempt.\"
The widow's uninvited visit turns into an over-convenient confession — she volunteers that she was in the eleven-hundred block of Hurricane Street at the time of the murder and spells out her own motive (\"Because I am jealous... A wife is a fool\"), doing the plot's work for the detective instead of making him dig.
The chapter suffers a catastrophic timeline and geographical breakdown at the climax, where a telegram dated 30 May claims Mina married Jonathan that morning and is returning to Exeter, directly contradicting her letter written from Exeter on the very same day preparing for a multi-day journey to Hungary.
Automated screening results across the ten outputs.