Claude Sonnet 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) on Settle an online shop's returns with coupon allocation, return windows, restocking fees and refund routing

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: 15s
Human step-ins: 0
Outcome: Pass

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# Settle an online shop's returns: coupon allocation, return windows, restocking fees, shipping and refund routing Inputs: `orders.json` (orders with delivered_at, payments, coupon, shipping_fee and lines), `returns.csv` (return_id, order_id, line, qty, reason, received_at) and `returns-policy.json`. Times carry their own UTC offsets. Everything is synthetic and in dollars. `returns-policy.json` and these rules are the record; where `support-macro.txt` disagrees, the rules win. Rules: - An order's coupon is spread over its lines in proportion to each line's subtotal (unit_price × qty): percent coupons take value% of the order subtotal, fixed coupons take value. Each line's share is rounded half-up to the cent, and any leftover cent difference goes to the line with the largest subtotal (ties: lowest line number). A line's net is its subtotal minus its share. - A return is eligible if received_at is no more than window_days × 24 hours after delivered_at (real instants). final_sale lines can only be returned for reason defective or wrong_item. - An eligible return's refund is the line's net × returned qty / line qty, rounded half-up to the cent. reason changed_mind pays a restocking fee of the category's restocking_pct of that refund, rounded half-up to the cent; the refund paid is refund − fee. - shipping_fee is refunded once per order if any eligible return on it has reason defective or wrong_item, or if eligible returns cover every unit of the order. - Routing: process an order's eligible returns by received_at, then the shipping refund. Each amount goes to the gift card first, up to what was paid by gift card minus what has already gone back to it, and the rest to the card. - Write `out/refunds.json`: `{"returns": {"<return_id>": {"eligible": true|false, "refund": <paid refund or 0>, "restocking_fee": <fee or 0>}, ...}, "orders": {"<order_id>": {"shipping_refund": <dollars>, "to_gift_card": <dollars>, "to_card": <dollars>}, ...}}` (orders: every order with at least one return). ## 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.

Settle a batch of returns for a synthetic online shop. Order coupons (percent or fixed) are spread over lines with a leftover-cent rule, return windows are measured between offset-stamped instants and some returns land hours either side of the limit, final-sale lines only come back as defective or wrong item, changed-mind returns pay a category restocking fee, shipping is refunded once under two triggers, and refunds go back to the gift card first. A support macro gets the coupon, window and routing 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: coupon_allocation eligibility restocking shipping routing

Setup notes: Batch 34 case tq03-shop-returns-refunds (offline, synthetic inputs, seed 104727845). 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 0.57 (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: $0.062752. 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: 15s
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	60,609	2,007	$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.
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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
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Evidence log is substantial : passed

Evidence log

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