Claude Opus 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) on Lighthouse with a sweeping beam in one self-contained HTML file

AClaude Opus 5.5default · thinking on · Claude Code 2.1.299 (headless -p) · cloud · 2026-10-20 · by @bobsiopener

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Estimated cost: $0.20
Wall time: 41s
Human step-ins: 0
Outcome: Pass

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Exact prompt

# Lighthouse with a sweeping beam in one self-contained HTML file Make a night-time lighthouse with a sweeping beam over the sea. Style, colours and technique (CSS, SVG, canvas) are up to you. **Looks are not scored**; only the objective checks below are. Write one file, `lighthouse.html`, in the working directory. ## Checks (all must pass; partial credit = fraction passed) 1. `file_exists_under_size_limit`: `lighthouse.html` exists and is at most 100,000 bytes (100 KB). 2. `no_external_requests`: fully self-contained. No `http://`, `https://` or `//` URLs in `src`, `href`, `srcset`, `poster`, `action`, `data` or `url()`, no asset URLs anywhere, no `@import`, `fetch(`, `XMLHttpRequest`, `WebSocket`, `EventSource`, `sendBeacon`, JS `import`, `<script src>` or `<link href>` (inline everything; `data:` URIs are fine). When a browser is used, any non-file request the page attempts also fails this check. 3. `animation_present`: CSS `@keyframes` plus an `animation`/`animation-name` property, or `requestAnimationFrame(` / `setInterval(`. 4. `loops_forever`: an `infinite` CSS animation (`animation-iteration-count: infinite` or `infinite` in the `animation` shorthand), or rAF/`setInterval` with no `cancelAnimationFrame`/`clearInterval` anywhere; when a browser is used, the page must also still change between ~6 s and ~7 s after load. 5. `page_animates`: when a headless Chrome/Chromium is available, the page is opened once with the network blocked at 800x600, and screenshots at ~1.5 s and ~2.5 s after load must differ. Without a browser (or if it fails to start) this and the browser part of check 4 fall back to the static checks 3-4; the scorer reports `check_mode` (`headless-browser` or `static-fallback`). 6. `required_id_and_title`: an element with `id="lighthouse"` and a `<title>` containing "Lighthouse" (case-insensitive). No other files, no build step, no network. Run time limit for scoring: 120 s.

Draw a lighthouse with a sweeping light beam as a single offline, looping HTML animation. Scoring is purely objective: under 100 KB, no external requests with the network blocked, an animation that loops forever and changes between headless Chrome screenshots, and the required element id and title. A public poll judges which version looks best. Original benchmark task written for usecaserank.com (not based on a specific public post). Headless, offline run on a reproducible fixture. Each run's notes say how its cost was measured (estimates are marked).

Success criteria: 1. file_exists_under_size_limit 2. no_external_requests 3. animation_present 4. loops_forever 5. page_animates 6. required_id_and_title

Setup notes: Use Case Scout batch 11 case l06-lighthouse-beam (offline, open-ended creative brief). Prepared with batch11/prepare.sh; hidden checker kept outside the agent's work dir. Prompt = TASK.md verbatim. Scored with the case's scorer (`python score.py WORKDIR KEYDIR`, headless Chrome over a CDP pipe, network blocked). Tools: Read/Write/Edit/Glob/Grep/Bash, web disabled. Single run, no retries. Output rendered offline (google-chrome headless, network blocked): PNG 1280x800 at ~3 s after load; MP4 1280x720 H.264 ~6 s. Claude Code's own reported cost for claude-opus-5.5: $0.202514. Score: 6/6. Cost is an ESTIMATE: measured tokens x pricing.json list price (Claude Pro subscription, nothing billed); input_tokens include cache reads and writes. Single run.

Estimated cost List-price estimate; not actually billed.

Output

Metrics

Estimated cost: $0.20
Wall time: 41s
Human step-ins: 0
Turns: 7

Model usage
Model	Input tok	Output tok	Cost
AClaude Opus 5.5anthropic/claude-opus-5.5effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on	129,705	4,224	$0.20

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Use the use case prompt on the use case page.
Same setup: Claude Opus 5.5 (anthropic/claude-opus-5.5, effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) via Claude Code 2.1.299 (headless -p), cloud.
It counts as a success only if it meets every success criterion: 1. file_exists_under_size_limit 2. no_external_requests 3. animation_present 4. loops_forever 5. page_animates 6. required_id_and_title
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Automated checks

Trust 80% comes from these checks (how Trust % works).

Run date is not in the future : passed
Model is in the dated pricing table : passed
Cost recomputed from tokens matches : passed
Cached tokens are consistent : passed
Output throughput is plausible : passed
Autonomy matches step-ins : passed
Step-ins do not exceed turns : passed
Retries agree with first-try result : passed
Evidence log SHA-256 matches : passed
Evidence log is substantial : passed

Evidence log

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