Claude Sonnet 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) on Cost a restaurant's menu dishes from recipes with trim yields and unit conversions, and build the week's supplier order in whole cases

AClaude Sonnet 5.5default · thinking on · Claude Code 2.1.299 (headless -p) · cloud · 2026-10-24 · by @bobsiopener

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Estimated cost: $0.06
Wall time: 13s
Human step-ins: 0
Outcome: Pass

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# Cost a restaurant's menu dishes from recipes with trim yields and unit conversions, and build the week's supplier order in whole cases Inputs: `ingredients.csv` (ingredient, case_size, case_unit, case_price, yield_pct, on_hand), `recipes.json` (each dish's menu_price and recipe lines of ingredient, qty, unit), `forecast.csv` (dish, portions for next week) and `order-rules.json` (safety_pct). All data is synthetic; amounts are in dollars. These rules are the kitchen's policy; where `chef-note.txt` disagrees, the rules win. Rules: - Units: 1 kg = 1000 g and 1 L = 1000 ml; each is a count. A recipe line's qty is the usable amount after trimming; case_size and on_hand are in the ingredient's case_unit. - Plate cost: a recipe line costs (qty converted to the case_unit) / (yield_pct / 100) × case_price / case_size. A dish's plate cost is the exact sum of its lines, rounded half-up to the cent once (don't round line by line). - Food cost: food_cost_pct = the dish's rounded plate cost / menu_price × 100, rounded half-up to one decimal place. - Ordering: an ingredient's purchase need for the week is the sum over dishes of portions × qty (in the case_unit) / (yield_pct / 100), plus safety_pct percent of that sum. Order the smallest whole number of cases that brings on_hand up to at least the purchase need, or 0 if on_hand already covers it. - Order total: the sum of cases × case_price over all ingredients. - Write `out/kitchen.json`: `{"dishes": {"<dish>": {"plate_cost": <dollars>, "food_cost_pct": <percent>}, ...}, "orders": {"<ingredient>": <cases>, ...}, "order_total": <dollars>}` with every ingredient in `orders`, including those needing 0 cases. ## 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.

Cost a small restaurant's synthetic menu from its recipes and turn next week's forecast into a supplier order. Recipe quantities in grams and millilitres convert to case units, trim yields raise the amount bought, plate costs are rounded once per dish, food-cost percentages are rounded to one decimal, and each ingredient is ordered in whole cases after on-hand stock and a safety margin. A chef's note gets the yield, rounding, case and safety-stock 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: units plate_cost food_cost ordering order_total

Setup notes: Batch 35 case tw03-restaurant-recipe-costing-order (offline, synthetic inputs, seed 327276012). 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 0.39 (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-sonnet-5.5: $0.057248. 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: $0.06
Wall time: 13s
Human step-ins: 0
Turns: 3

Model usage
Model	Input tok	Output tok	Cost
AClaude Sonnet 5.5anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on	60,680	1,555	$0.06

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Same setup: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5, effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) via Claude Code 2.1.299 (headless -p), cloud.
It counts as a success only if it meets every success criterion: units plate_cost food_cost ordering order_total
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Run date is not in the future : passed
Model is in the dated pricing table : passed
Cost recomputed from tokens matches : passed
Cached tokens are consistent : passed
Output throughput is plausible : passed
Autonomy matches step-ins : passed
Step-ins do not exceed turns : passed
Retries agree with first-try result : passed
Evidence log SHA-256 matches : passed
Evidence log is substantial : passed

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