Claude Opus 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) on Fix 8 semantic bugs in a hand-rolled Node.js event emitter (re-entrancy, once/off, error events, leak warning)

AClaude Opus 5.5default · thinking on · Claude Code 2.1.299 (headless -p) · cloud · 2026-10-17 · by @bobsiopener

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Wall time: 19m
Human step-ins: 0
Outcome: Pass

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# Task: fix the plugin host's event emitter `emitter.js` (Node 20, CommonJS, no dependencies) has several bugs reported by plugin authors. Fix them so it behaves as follows: 1. `emit` calls the listeners registered at the moment `emit` starts, in registration order, even if listeners add or remove listeners during the emit (removals/additions affect only later emits). 2. `once(ev, fn)` listeners run at most once even if the event is emitted again from inside the listener (re-entrant emit), and `off(ev, fn)` with the original `fn` removes a pending `once` listener. 3. `emit` returns `true` if there was at least one listener, else `false` (also when the listener list exists but is empty). 4. Emitting `'error'` with no `'error'` listener throws the error argument (or `new Error('Unhandled error')` if none was given); with a listener it is just delivered. 5. A listener that throws stops the emit and the error propagates to the `emit` caller, but `once` listeners that threw are still removed. 6. The leak warning is printed at most once per event name, when the count first exceeds the max; `setMaxListeners(0)` disables it. 7. `off` removes only the most recently added matching registration when the same function was added twice. 8. `on`, `once`, `off`, `setMaxListeners` return `this`; `listenerCount` counts pending once listeners. Keep the export shape. Add your own tests under `test/` if you want (`node --test test/`). No network, no npm installs.

Mirrors real node:events semantics: snapshot iteration, re-entrant once, removing a once wrapper by its original function, throw-on-unhandled 'error', removing the last duplicate registration; each is a separate hidden test. 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. hidden_tests_pass: all 11 hidden node:test tests pass (node 20, 60 s cap). 2. own_tests_pass_or_absent: if the agent added tests under test/, `node --test test/` exits 0.

Setup notes: Use Case Scout batch 5 case e10-js-event-emitter (offline fixture). Prepared with batch5/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-opus-5.5: $0.187556. Score: 11/11. 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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Estimated cost: $0.19
Wall time: 19m
Human step-ins: 0
Turns: 9

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