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Claude Haiku 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) on Bill a month of car park sessions with per-day caps across midnight, shop validations and a grace period

AClaude Haiku 5.5default · thinking on · Claude Code 2.1.299 (headless -p) · cloud · 2026-10-22 · by @bobsiopener

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Estimated cost
$0.0052
Wall time
18s
Human step-ins
0
Outcome
Pass

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# Bill a month of car park sessions Inputs: `sessions.csv` (every entry/exit recorded by the barrier in October 2026, with whether a shop validated the ticket) and `tariff.json`. Charge each session: - Each calendar day a session touches is charged separately: the tariff's price per started hour on that day, capped at the tariff's daily cap for that day. A day piece runs from entry (or midnight) to exit (or midnight); a piece of 0 minutes costs nothing. - A validated session gets its first `validation_free_hours` hours free: take them off the first day's piece before counting started hours (any free time left over does not move to the next day). - A session shorter than `grace_minutes` minutes from entry to exit is free. - A started hour is any part of an hour: 61 minutes is 2 started hours, 60 minutes is 1. Write `out/parking.json`: `{"charges": {"<session_id>": <amount>, ...}, "by_plate": {"<plate>": <total for that plate>, ...}, "total": <sum of all charges>}` with every session listed (free ones as 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.

Charge every barrier session in a month of a pay-on-exit car park. Each calendar day a stay touches is priced by started hour and capped separately, a shop validation takes free hours off the first day only, and very short stays are free. One cap for a whole multi-day stay, rounding to the nearest hour or charging grace-period stays each change the bill. All amounts are whole multiples of the tariff, so no rounding is involved. 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: midnight_split validation grace started_hours

Setup notes: Batch 23 case y03-parking-garage-billing (offline, synthetic inputs, seed 34823908). 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 1.04 (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: $0.005232. 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
$0.0052
Wall time
18s
Human step-ins
0
Turns
5
Model usage
ModelInput tokOutput tokCost
AClaude Haiku 5.5anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on111,1203,282$0.0052

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: midnight_split validation grace started_hours
  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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