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Claude Haiku 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) on Price a pet-grooming salon's appointments by weight band and coat, with same-day multi-pet discounts, add-ons and matting time

AClaude Haiku 5.5default · thinking on · Claude Code 2.1.299 (headless -p) · cloud · 2026-10-25 · by @bobsiopener

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Estimated cost
$0.0050
Wall time
17s
Human step-ins
0
Outcome
Pass

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# Price a pet-grooming salon's appointments by weight band and coat, with same-day multi-pet discounts, add-ons and matting time Inputs: `appointments.csv` (appt_id, pet_id, groomer_id, date, addons, matting_min), `pets.csv` (pet_id, owner_id, name, weight_kg, coat), `owners.csv` (owner_id, name), `groomers.csv` (groomer_id, name) and `prices.json` (bands, coat_pct, addons, matting_per_15, multi_pet_pct). All owners, pets and groomers are synthetic; amounts are in dollars. These rules are the salon's policy; where `front-desk-note.txt` disagrees, the rules win. Rules: - Band: a pet's band is the first entry in bands whose max_kg is at least its weight_kg (null = no limit); base = the band's base plus coat_pct for the pet's coat, rounded half-up to the cent. - Same-day discount: when one owner has two or more appointments on the same date, each of them except the one with that owner's lowest appt_id that date gets multi_pet_pct off its base, rounded half-up to the cent; add-ons and matting are never discounted. - Extras: add-ons is a semicolon-separated list (blank = none), each charged at its addons price; matting is charged at matting_per_15 for each started 15 minutes of matting_min (0 = none); extras = add-ons + matting. - Write `out/grooming.json`: `{"appointments": {"<appt_id>": {"band": "<band>", "base": <dollars>, "discount": <dollars>, "extras": <dollars>, "total": <base − discount + extras>}, ...}, "owners": {"<owner_id>": <sum of the owner's appointment totals>, ...}, "groomers": {"<groomer_id>": <number of appointments>, ...}}`. `appointments` has one entry per row of appointments.csv. - Roll-ups: Owners in owners.csv with no appointments are left out. Groomers in groomers.csv with no appointments are included at 0. ## 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.

Price a synthetic grooming salon's appointments. Pets fall in weight bands (some weights sit exactly on a band limit), coats add a percent, owners with several pets in on the same day get a discount on all but their first appointment, and add-ons and matting time are extras. The prompt says owners with no appointments are left out and idle groomers are listed at 0. A front-desk note gets the discount, matting and roll-up 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: size_band same_day_discount extras owner_totals groomer_counts

Setup notes: Batch 39 case tk03-pet-grooming-invoices (offline, synthetic inputs, seed 190719129). 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 0.19 (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: $0.005037. 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
$0.0050
Wall time
17s
Human step-ins
0
Turns
4
Model usage
ModelInput tokOutput tokCost
AClaude Haiku 5.5anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on89,9103,501$0.0050

Reproduce this run

  1. Use the use case prompt on the use case page.
  2. 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.
  3. It counts as a success only if it meets every success criterion: size_band same_day_discount extras owner_totals groomer_counts
  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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