Claude Haiku 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) on Invoice a landscaping firm's jobs from mowing areas, hedge height bands, mulch bags, contract discounts and tax on materials

AClaude Haiku 5.5default · thinking on · Claude Code 2.1.299 (headless -p) · cloud · 2026-10-25 · by @bobsiopener

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Estimated cost: $0.0048
Wall time: 18s
Human step-ins: 0
Outcome: Pass

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# Invoice a landscaping firm's jobs from mowing areas, hedge height bands, mulch bags, contract discounts and tax on materials Inputs: `job-lines.csv` (line_id, job_id, client_id, service, area_m2, length_m, height_m, depth_cm; fields that don't apply to a service are blank), `clients.csv` (client_id, contract) and `rates.json`. All clients and jobs are synthetic; amounts are in dollars. These rules are the firm's price list; where `crew-note.txt` disagrees, the rules win. Rules: - Mowing: area_m2 × mow per_m2, rounded half-up to the cent, but never less than the mow min_charge for the line; a client with contract yes then gets contract_pct percent off each of its mowing lines (the discount rounded half-up to the cent). - Hedges: length_m × the per_m rate of the first hedge band whose max_height_m is at least the hedge's height_m (a height exactly on a band limit takes that band; the last band has no limit), rounded half-up to the cent. No contract discount. - Mulch: volume = area_m2 × depth_cm / 100 cubic metres; bags = volume / bag_m3 rounded up to a whole bag; the line is bags × bag_price (materials) + bags × spread_per_bag (labour). No contract discount. - Tax: each job pays tax_pct percent of its mulch materials only (bags × bag_price summed over the job), rounded half-up to the cent once per job; labour and services are not taxed. - Write `out/invoices.json`: `{"lines": {"<line_id>": <line amount after any discount>, ...}, "jobs": {"<job_id>": {"services": <sum of its line amounts>, "tax": <dollars>, "total": <services + tax>}, ...}, "clients": {"<client_id>": <sum of its job totals>, ...}}`. ## 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.

Price a synthetic landscaping firm's job lines and roll them up into job and client invoices. Mowing has a per-square-metre rate with a minimum charge and a contract discount, hedges are priced by height band with heights exactly on the band limits, mulch is sold in whole bags worked out from area and depth, and only mulch materials are taxed. A crew note gets the discount, band, bag and tax 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: mowing hedge_bands mulch_bags job_tax client_totals

Setup notes: Batch 38 case tz02-landscaping-job-invoicing (offline, synthetic inputs, seed 607824103). 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 0.22 (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: $0.004793. 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: $0.0048
Wall time: 18s
Human step-ins: 0
Turns: 4

Model usage
Model	Input tok	Output tok	Cost
AClaude Haiku 5.5anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on	85,999	3,512	$0.0048

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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.
It counts as a success only if it meets every success criterion: mowing hedge_bands mulch_bags job_tax client_totals
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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

Evidence log

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