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Claude Haiku 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) on Fix keyset pagination of a SQLite feed (ties, filters before paging, exact next-cursor, rows changing between pages, cursor validation)

AClaude Haiku 5.5default · thinking on · Claude Code 2.1.299 (headless -p) · cloud · 2026-10-19 · by @bobsiopener

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Estimated cost
$0.0086
Wall time
41s
Human step-ins
0
Outcome
Pass

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# Task: fix the feed pagination Users report that the item feed served by `feed.py` skips items, shows duplicates, returns short pages when filtering, and sometimes offers a "next page" link that leads to an empty page. Fix `list_items` in `feed.py` (rewrite freely) so it follows `PAGINATION.md` exactly. Python standard library only (`sqlite3`). Keep the function name and signature. You may not change the table schema in `schema.sql`. No network. The grader runs a hidden unittest suite: it builds SQLite databases with `schema.sql` (hundreds of items, many sharing the same `created_at`), walks pages with various limits, filters and orders, inserts and deletes rows between page requests, and feeds invalid arguments.

The starting code paginates on created_at alone (skips ties), filters after LIMIT (short pages), emits a next cursor for an exactly-full last page, interpolates order into SQL and accepts any cursor. Hidden walks with inserts/deletes between pages expose each bug. 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: 1. All 10 hidden unittest cases pass (schema unchanged, item shape, desc and asc walks with ties at several limits, filtered pages exactly full, exactly-full last page has no cursor, limit/order validation, injection-safe status, bad/mismatched cursors raise ValueError, inserts/deletes between pages).

Setup notes: Use Case Scout batch 7 case g05-cursor-pagination-bugs (offline fixture). Prepared with batch7/prepare.sh; hidden key/tests kept outside the agent's work dir. Prompt = TASK.md verbatim. Scored with the scout's scorer: `python score.py WORKDIR KEYDIR`. Tools: Read/Write/Edit/Glob/Grep/Bash, web disabled. Single run, no retries. Claude Code's own reported cost for claude-haiku-5.5: $0.008595. Score: 10/10. 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
$0.0086
Wall time
41s
Human step-ins
0
Turns
5
Model usage
ModelInput tokOutput tokCost
AClaude Haiku 5.5anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on117,8728,656$0.0086

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  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: 1. All 10 hidden unittest cases pass (schema unchanged, item shape, desc and asc walks with ties at several limits, filtered pages exactly full, exactly-full last page has no cursor, limit/order validation, injection-safe status, bad/mismatched cursors raise ValueError, inserts/deletes between pages).
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