Claude Haiku 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) on Call six A/B tests correctly through traffic-split mismatches, burn-in effects, under-filled arms and guardrail breaches

AClaude Haiku 5.5default · thinking on · Claude Code 2.1.299 (headless -p) · cloud · 2026-10-21 · by @bobsiopener

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Estimated cost: $0.0058
Wall time: 22s
Human step-ins: 0
Outcome: Pass

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Exact prompt

# Make the call on six experiments Inputs: `experiments.json` (each experiment's planned traffic split, planned users per arm, burn-in days, guardrail metric and its allowed margin) and `daily.csv` (users, conversions and guardrail events per experiment, arm and day). Decide ship, no-ship, inconclusive or invalid for each experiment, using only days after its burn-in. - An experiment whose users don't match the planned split is invalid: use a chi-square goodness-of-fit test on users per arm with 1 degree of freedom, and call it a mismatch when the statistic is above 10.828. - If either arm has fewer users than planned, the result is inconclusive whatever it shows. - Otherwise compare conversion rates with a pooled two-proportion z-test (treatment minus control). Above 1.96 is a win, below -1.96 a loss, anything else inconclusive. - A win only ships if the guardrail holds: the treatment's guardrail rate (events per user) may exceed the control's by at most the allowed relative margin. A win that breaks the guardrail is a no-ship, and so is a loss. Write `out/decisions.json`: `{"decision": {"<experiment_id>": "ship|no-ship|inconclusive|invalid", ...}, "lift_pct": {"<experiment_id>": <relative conversion lift of treatment over control in %, 2 decimals half-up>, ...}, "invalid": [<ids, sorted>]}`. Give `lift_pct` for every experiment that isn't invalid. ## How this run works - Work on your own: nobody will answer questions in this task, and writing to `ask/` counts against the run. - Write only under `out/`. Create `out/` if it is missing. Inputs are synthetic; don't fetch anything from the network. - Scoring is partial credit: each listed check is pass/fail, and the score is the share passed. Numbers are compared to within 0.005 unless the task says otherwise.

Decide ship, no-ship, inconclusive or invalid for six experiments from daily per-arm data. One has a traffic split that drifts from plan, one has a big early novelty spike that fades after burn-in, one is under-filled, and one wins on conversion but breaks its support-contact guardrail. Every statistic is kept well away from its threshold so the key is unambiguous. 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). Folder-restore note: this run's output files under work/out/ were lost in a 1:22 AM ET restore on Oct 21, 2026. The trace, step-in exchanges and output-hash list were checked against the recorded SHA-256 values and match; the hashes of the individual output files inside that list can no longer be recomputed. Measured data unchanged.

Success criteria: decisions lifts invalid guardrail_and_power

Setup notes: Batch 19 case u05-experiment-readout-decisions (offline, synthetic inputs, seed 385814954). Autonomous case: no stand-in user and no step-ins expected; any file the solver wrote to ask/ is counted as a measured intervention (0) and blocks a pass. Prompt = TASK.md verbatim. Hidden key kept outside the solver's work dir. Scored with the case's scorer (python3 score.py WORKDIR KEYDIR, absolute paths); pass = every check true and no ask/ files. Tools: Read/Write/Edit/Glob/Grep/Bash, web disabled. Single run, no retries. 1-min load average at scoring 0.15 (8 cores). Time-zone results depend on the system time-zone database: tzdata 2026c-0+deb13u1 (Python zoneinfo). Claude Code's own reported cost for claude-haiku-5.5: $0.005841. Score: 4/4. 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.

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Metrics

Estimated cost: $0.0058
Wall time: 22s
Human step-ins: 0
Turns: 5

Model usage
Model	Input tok	Output tok	Cost
AClaude Haiku 5.5anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on	113,614	4,107	$0.0058

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Same setup: Claude Haiku 5.5 (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5, effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) via Claude Code 2.1.299 (headless -p), cloud.
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