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Claude Sonnet 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) on Rate a courier firm's shipments with dimensional weight, zone bands, a minimum charge, a weekly fuel surcharge and residential fees

AClaude Sonnet 5.5default · thinking on · Claude Code 2.1.299 (headless -p) · cloud · 2026-10-24 · by @bobsiopener

Trust 80%Fully autonomoussuccess · first try
Estimated cost
$0.06
Wall time
16s
Human step-ins
0
Outcome
Pass

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# Rate a courier firm's shipments with dimensional weight, zone bands, a minimum charge, a weekly fuel surcharge and residential fees Inputs: `shipments.csv` (awb, account, from_zone, to_zone, service, weight_kg, length_cm, width_cm, height_cm, residential, ship_date), `zones.json` (band for each zone pair, listed once in either order), `rates.json` (per service and band: base, per_half_kg) and `surcharges.json` (dim_divisor, min_charge, residential_fee, fuel: list of {week_start, pct}). All accounts and parcels are synthetic; amounts are in dollars. These rules are the firm's policy; where `ops-note.txt` disagrees, the rules win. Rules: - Billable weight: dimensional weight = length_cm × width_cm × height_cm / dim_divisor. Billable weight is the larger of weight_kg and dimensional weight, rounded up to the next 0.5 kg. - Transport: look up the band for the zone pair (A-B is the same pair as B-A). Transport = base + per_half_kg × the number of half kilos of billable weight above 1 kg, and never less than min_charge. - Fuel: use the pct of the fuel row whose week_start (a Monday) begins the week containing ship_date. Fuel = pct percent of transport, rounded half-up to the cent. The residential fee is not fuel-surcharged. - Residential: add residential_fee when residential is yes. Shipment total = transport + fuel + residential fee. - Write `out/rated.json`: `{"shipments": {"<awb>": {"billable_kg": <number>, "transport": <dollars>, "fuel": <dollars>, "residential": <dollars>, "total": <dollars>}, ...}, "accounts": {"<account>": <sum of totals>, ...}}`. ## 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.

Rate a synthetic courier firm's shipments. Billable weight is the larger of scale and dimensional weight rounded up to the half kilo, zone pairs are listed in either order, transport has a minimum charge, the fuel surcharge changes by week and applies only to transport, and residential deliveries carry a flat fee. An ops note gets the weight, rounding and fuel rules wrong. 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: billable_weight zone_transport fuel_week shipment_totals account_totals

Setup notes: Batch 36 case tx03-courier-shipment-rating (offline, synthetic inputs, seed 2148920087). 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 0.84 (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: $0.058109. Score: 5/5. 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
$0.06
Wall time
16s
Human step-ins
0
Turns
4
Model usage
ModelInput tokOutput tokCost
AClaude Sonnet 5.5anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on80,1251,465$0.06

Reproduce this run

  1. Use the use case prompt on the use case page.
  2. 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.
  3. It counts as a success only if it meets every success criterion: billable_weight zone_transport fuel_week shipment_totals account_totals
  4. Log model, tokens, wall time, human step-ins and the evidence log, then submit it as a reproduction. A different model? Submit a head-to-head rerun.

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