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Claude Haiku 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) on Roll forward staff holiday balances with a tenure step-up, a balance cap, part-timers and a year-end carry-over limit

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
$0.0049
Wall time
19s
Human step-ins
0
Outcome
Pass

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Summary

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# Roll forward holiday balances Inputs: `employees.csv` (hire date, FTE, opening balance in hours on 2025-10-01), `leave-taken.csv` and `pto-policy.json`. Work out every employee's balance on 2026-03-31, going through the twelve semi-monthly periods from 2025-10-01 in order (1st-15th, then 16th-month end). - In each period, first subtract approved leave dated in that period (leave with status `cancelled` doesn't count), then add that period's accrual. - Accrual = the policy's base hours for the employee's tenure on the last day of the period, times FTE, rounded to 2 decimals half-up. Tenure counts whole years since `hire_date`. - Accrual stops at the cap: never add more than would take the balance above `cap_hours`. - After the period ending 2025-12-31, any balance above `carryover_max_hours` is forfeited. Write `out/balances.json`: `{"balance": {"<employee_id>": <hours on 2026-03-31>, ...}, "accrued": {"<employee_id>": <hours accrued over the 12 periods>, ...}, "forfeited": {"<employee_id>": <hours forfeited at year end>, ... only employees who forfeited}}`. Hours to 2 decimals. ## 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.

Roll paid-time-off balances forward over twelve semi-monthly pay periods spanning a year end. Accrual depends on tenure at each period's end and on each person's FTE, stops at a balance cap, cancelled leave doesn't count, and only a limited balance carries into the new year. Ignoring the cap, the anniversary step-up or the carry-over limit each changes someone's balance. 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: balances tenure_accrual cap carryover

Setup notes: Batch 22 case x03-pto-accrual-balances (offline, synthetic inputs, seed 3113911253). 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 0.87 (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: $0.004903. 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
$0.0049
Wall time
19s
Human step-ins
0
Turns
4
Model usage
ModelInput tokOutput tokCost
AClaude Haiku 5.5anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on86,5943,770$0.0049

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  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: balances tenure_accrual cap carryover
  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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