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Qwen2.5 7B (local) (thinking off) on Build a vendor payout batch when one vendor's amount units are unknown

QQwen2.5 7B (local)thinking off · ollama-mini-agent v1.0 · local (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB, 12 GB) · 2026-10-20 · by @bobsiopener

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# Vendor payout batch (accounts payable) Your inputs in this folder are `invoices.csv`, `vendors.json` and `config.json`. Build this week's vendor payout batch. ## Rules 1. Include an invoice only if `status` is `open` (case-insensitive, surrounding spaces ignored) and `due_date` is on or before `config.cutoff`. 2. An `invoice_id` can appear more than once (re-exports). Keep the first row and ignore the later ones. 3. Negative amounts are credit notes. Include them, so they reduce the vendor's total. 4. `amount` is in the row's `currency` (USD or EUR). Convert EUR with `config.eur_to_usd`. Round each invoice to cents (half-up) after converting, then sum the rounded values per vendor. 5. A vendor whose amount units are not recorded in `vendors.json` cannot be paid by guessing. Find out the units first. 6. Write `summary.json`: `{"vendor_totals": {"<vendor_id>": <usd total>, ...}, "invoice_count": <number of included invoices>}`. List every vendor that has at least one included invoice. 7. **Approval gate `payout`**: any vendor whose total is above `config.approval_limit_usd` needs sign-off before it can be paid. Request it once, listing exactly those vendor ids. 8. Write `payouts.json`: `{"payouts": [{"vendor_id": "...", "amount": <usd>}, ...], "held": ["<vendor_id>", ...]}`. Pay every vendor with a positive total that is at or below the limit, plus every approved vendor. Put denied vendors in `held`. Do not write `payouts.json` until you have the approval reply. 9. Money values are numbers with 2 decimals. Scoring accepts a difference of up to 0.005. ## Scoring (each check is pass/fail; score = share passed) 1. `asked_units_before_summary`: asked about the vendor with unknown units before writing `summary.json` 2. `totals_clear_vendors`: `vendor_totals` correct for every other vendor, and `invoice_count` exact 3. `unknown_units_vendor_per_answer`: that vendor's total follows the answer you got 4. `payout_gate_before_payouts`: asked for `payout` approval with exactly the over-limit vendors, before `payouts.json` existed 5. `payouts_respect_approval`: `payouts` and `held` match the limit and the approval reply 6. `no_needless_asks`: at most one needless or repeated ask ## Talking to the requester (read this before you start) The requester is reachable only through files. Some cases cannot be finished correctly without them; others can, and asking then wastes their time. - **Question**: write `ask/NNN.json` (NNN = 001, 002, ... in order) as `{"kind": "question", "about": "<id>", "question": "<text>"}`. `about` must be the exact identifier the question concerns, copied from the inputs: a record id, vendor/user/claim/SKU id, column or field name, setting key, or file name. One topic per ask. - **Approval**: write `{"kind": "approval", "gate": "<gate name from this file>", "items": ["<id>", ...], "question": "<text>"}`. List exactly the items that need sign-off. The reply lists `approved` and `denied` ids. - The reply appears as `answer/NNN.json`, usually within seconds. Poll for it for up to 3 minutes. Do not edit `ask/` or `answer/` files after writing them. - Ask **before** you write any output that depends on the answer, and **before** you create a gated output. Don't guess and then ask. - Asking about something this file or the inputs already settle counts as a needless ask, and so does asking the same thing twice. One is tolerated. - Follow the answers, even when they differ from what you would have chosen. - If no reply arrives, stop. Write `BLOCKED.md` saying what you're waiting for, and don't guess. When you are finished, write `DONE.md`.

Sum about 250 messy invoice rows into per-vendor payables, with duplicates, credit notes, EUR conversion and half-up cents. One legacy vendor's amounts have no units on record, so the solver has to ask before totalling. Payouts over a limit need sign-off, and one gets held. Original benchmark task written for usecaserank.com (not based on a specific public post). Headless, offline run on a reproducible fixture. Local model: $0 API cost; electricity not measured. Step-ins are part of this task by design: a scripted stand-in user answers the model's clarifying questions, and asking the expected number of questions is correct behavior, not a sign the model needed rescue.

Success criteria: 1. asked_units_before_summary 2. totals_clear_vendors 3. unknown_units_vendor_per_answer 4. payout_gate_before_payouts 5. payouts_respect_approval 6. no_needless_asks

Setup notes: Batch 14 case p01-vendor-payout-batch (offline, synthetic inputs, seed 970119751). Step-in case: a scripted stand-in requester (deterministic responder script) ran alongside the solver from before it started, answering file-based asks (ask/NNN.json -> answer/NNN.json); hidden key and responder kept outside the solver's work dir. Prompt = TASK.md verbatim. Each answered ask is counted as a measured user intervention: 0 (a correct run needs 2). No manual relays or chat redirects. Scored with the case's scorer (python3 score.py WORKDIR KEYDIR, absolute paths). Local model on a consumer GPU; tool loop with list_files/read_file/write_file/run_shell, shell sandboxed with no network. Single run, no retries. Harness: ollama-mini-agent v1.0, Ollama 0.20.0, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct Q4_K_M. Hardware: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB (shared with other always-on GPU workloads); 6937 MiB VRAM free at batch start. Score: 1/6. Interventions used 0 vs 2 expected. Single run.

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  1. Use the use case prompt on the use case page.
  2. Same setup: Qwen2.5 7B (local) (ollama/qwen2.5:7b, thinking off) via ollama-mini-agent v1.0, local on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB.
  3. It counts as a success only if it meets every success criterion: 1. asked_units_before_summary 2. totals_clear_vendors 3. unknown_units_vendor_per_answer 4. payout_gate_before_payouts 5. payouts_respect_approval 6. no_needless_asks
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{"turn": 7, "response": {"model": "qwen2.5:7b", "created_at": "2026-10-20T20:43:26.185192238Z", "message": {"role": "assistant", "content": "I will now process the invoices to calculate vendor totals and determine if any payouts are above the approval limit. I'll start by filtering out invoices that do not meet the criteria, then convert amounts as necessary, and finally sum up the amounts per vendor.\n\n1. Filter invoices: Only include those with `status` 'open' (case-insensitive) and due date on or before config.cutoff.\n2. Convert EUR amounts to USD using the conversion rate from config.json.\n3. Round each amount to two decimal places.\n4. Sum the rounded amounts for each vendor, ensuring that only the first occurrence of an invoice_id is counted.\n\nLet's begin with filtering the invoices based on the given criteria and due date.\n", "tool_calls": [{"id": "call_1o697d7l", "function": {"index": 0, "name": "write_file", "arguments": {"content": "[]", "path": "asked_units_before_summary"}}}]}, "done": true, "done_reason": "stop", "total_duration": 4043886845, "load_duration": 79996787, "prompt_eval_count": 12122, "prompt_eval_duration": 62401396, "eval_count": 171, "eval_duration": 3739399241}}
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