Claude Sonnet 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) on Work out a week's hourly pay with daily overtime, double time over 12 hours, split shifts and a weekly 40-hour rule

AClaude Sonnet 5.5default · thinking on · Claude Code 2.1.299 (headless -p) · cloud · 2026-10-22 · by @bobsiopener

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Estimated cost: $0.05
Wall time: 14s
Human step-ins: 0
Outcome: Pass

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Exact prompt

# Work out a week's hourly pay with daily and weekly overtime Inputs: `staff.csv` (employee id, hourly rate) and `timesheet.csv` (every shift clocked in the week Monday 2026-10-12 to Sunday 2026-10-18: start, end and unpaid break in minutes). Times are on the quarter hour and no shift crosses midnight. Pay rules: - A shift's hours = end - start - unpaid break. - If someone works two shifts in one day, add them together before applying the daily rule. - Daily overtime: hours over 8 in a day are paid at 1.5x, and hours over 12 in a day at 2x. - Weekly overtime: hours that are not daily overtime count as regular until the week's regular hours reach 40; regular hours beyond 40 (counting days in date order) are paid at 1.5x instead. - Gross pay = hourly rate x (regular + 1.5 x overtime + 2 x double time), rounded to the cent half-up per employee. Write `out/payroll.json`: `{"regular_hours": {"<employee_id>": <hours>, ...}, "overtime_hours": {...}, "double_hours": {...}, "gross": {"<employee_id>": <gross pay>, ...}, "total_gross": <sum of the rounded gross figures>}` with every employee in `staff.csv` (an employee with no shifts has 0 everywhere). ## 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.

Pay a week of hourly staff from their clocked shifts. Hours over 8 in a day are overtime and over 12 are double time, two shifts on one day are added before the daily rule, and regular hours beyond 40 in the week become overtime. Applying the daily rule per shift, skipping double time or forgetting the weekly rule each change someone's gross pay. 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: split_shifts double_time weekly_overtime gross_pay

Setup notes: Batch 23 case y01-overtime-timesheets (offline, synthetic inputs, seed 1025729786). 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 0.26 (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-sonnet-5.5: $0.054204. 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.

Estimated cost List-price estimate; not actually billed.

Metrics

Estimated cost: $0.05
Wall time: 14s
Human step-ins: 0
Turns: 4

Model usage
Model	Input tok	Output tok	Cost
AClaude Sonnet 5.5anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on	78,104	1,356	$0.05

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Same setup: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (anthropic/claude-sonnet-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: split_shifts double_time weekly_overtime gross_pay
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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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