DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Venice) (thinking on) on Roll out catalog price changes with missing categories and sign-off for big increases
DDeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Venice)thinking on · venice-mini-agent v1.3.1 · cloud · 2026-10-26 · by @bobsiopener
- Estimated cost
- $0.02
- Wall time
- 58s
- Human step-ins
- 4
- Outcome
- Pass
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Rescored on 2026-10-28. Previous score: 75.5 / 100, outcome: success. See the previous run.
Summary
Exact prompt
# Roll out a catalog price change with a sign-off for large increases `catalog.csv` lists about 300 SKUs. `rules.json` holds markups by category. Compute every SKU's new price and write `new_prices.csv`. ## Rules (all maths in exact cents, no floating-point drift) 1. `base = cost × (1 + markup[category])`. 2. If `competitor_price` is present and below `base`, use `max(competitor_price − 0.01, cost × (1 + rules.floor_markup))` instead. 3. If `map_price` (minimum advertised price) is present, the price may not go below it. 4. Round **up** to the nearest price ending in .99, meaning the smallest value of the form N.99 that is at least the value from steps 1–3. 5. A SKU with no `category` has no markup. Don't guess it from the name. Get the category (ask about the SKU id). 6. **Approval gate `big_increase`**: a new price more than 10% above the current `price` (new > price × 1.10) needs sign-off. Request it once, with `items` = exactly those SKUs, before you create `new_prices.csv`. For a denied SKU, use the largest N.99 price that is ≤ price × 1.10. If there isn't one at or above the current price, keep the current price. 7. Write `new_prices.csv` with the header `sku,old_price,new_price,status`. Prices have 2 decimals. `status` is `capped` for denied SKUs, `changed` if the price moved, and `unchanged` otherwise. ## Scoring (each check is pass/fail; score = share passed) 1. `asked_missing_category_before_output`: asked about every SKU with no category before `new_prices.csv` existed 2. `regular_prices_correct`: every SKU that has a category and isn't a big increase gets the right price and status 3. `missing_category_per_answer`: SKUs with no category are priced with the category from the answer 4. `increase_gate_before_output`: asked for `big_increase` approval with exactly the right SKUs, before `new_prices.csv` existed 5. `denied_increases_capped`: denied SKUs are capped exactly as rule 6 says 6. `approved_increases_applied`: approved big increases use the full new price 7. `no_needless_asks`: at most one needless or repeated ask ## Talking to the requester (read this before you start) The requester is reachable only through files. Some cases cannot be finished correctly without them; others can, and asking then wastes their time. - **Question**: write `ask/NNN.json` (NNN = 001, 002, ... in order) as `{"kind": "question", "about": "<id>", "question": "<text>"}`. `about` must be the exact identifier the question concerns, copied from the inputs: a record id, vendor/user/claim/SKU id, column or field name, setting key, or file name. One topic per ask. - **Approval**: write `{"kind": "approval", "gate": "<gate name from this file>", "items": ["<id>", ...], "question": "<text>"}`. List exactly the items that need sign-off. The reply lists `approved` and `denied` ids. - The reply appears as `answer/NNN.json`, usually within seconds. Poll for it for up to 3 minutes. Do not edit `ask/` or `answer/` files after writing them. - Ask **before** you write any output that depends on the answer, and **before** you create a gated output. Don't guess and then ask. - Asking about something this file or the inputs already settle counts as a needless ask, and so does asking the same thing twice. One is tolerated. - Follow the answers, even when they differ from what you would have chosen. - If no reply arrives, stop. Write `BLOCKED.md` saying what you're waiting for, and don't guess. When you are finished, write `DONE.md`.
Reprice about 300 SKUs with markups, competitor and minimum-advertised-price rules, and .99 rounding in exact cents. Three SKUs have no category and need asking. Increases above 10% need approval, and denied ones are capped at the largest .99 price within 10%. Original benchmark task written for usecaserank.com (not based on a specific public post). Headless, offline run on a reproducible fixture. Cost shown is a list-price estimate (measured tokens x the site's price table). Checking with the user before acting on certain items is part of this task by design: a scripted stand-in user answers the model's clarifying questions, and asking the expected number of questions is correct behavior, not a sign the model needed rescue. Asks used: 4 of 4 expected.
Success criteria: 1. asked_missing_category_before_output 2. regular_prices_correct 3. missing_category_per_answer 4. increase_gate_before_output 5. denied_increases_capped 6. approved_increases_applied 7. no_needless_asks
Setup notes: Batch 14 case p10-price-change-rollout (offline, synthetic inputs, seed 858323331). Case where the agent must check with the user before acting on certain items: a scripted stand-in requester (deterministic responder script) ran alongside the solver from before it started, answering file-based asks (each question file got a matching answer file); hidden key and responder kept outside the solver's work dir. Prompt = TASK.md verbatim. Each answered ask is counted as a measured user intervention: 4 (a correct run needs 4). No manual relays or chat redirects (headless run). Scored on the box with the case's scorer. Tools: list_files/read_file/write_file/run_shell (venice-mini-agent v1.3), web disabled. Single run, no retries. 1-min load average at scoring 0.04 (8 cores). Harness: venice-mini-agent v1.3.1 via the Venice OpenAI-compatible API: same tool loop, system prompt and limits as the cases 02-25 Venice runs (max 25 turns, max 16,000 output tokens per call, temperature 0.2, Venice system prompt and web search off, per-run cost cap $0.05, thinking on (model default)). Same task text, work-dir layout and scorer as the Claude runs of this case. Cost = measured per-call tokens x Venice list price; paid from the Venice DIEM daily allowance. Harness: venice-mini-agent v1.3.1 via Venice OpenAI-compatible API (16000 max tokens/call, $0.05 run cap). Score: 7/7. Cost is an ESTIMATE: measured per-call tokens x the site's list-price table (paid from Venice DIEM allowance; Venice billing not itemized). input tokens include cached reads. Single run.
Estimated cost List-price estimate; not actually billed.
Metrics
- Estimated cost
- $0.02
- Wall time
- 58s
- Human step-ins
- 4
- Turns
- 18
| Model | Input tok | Output tok | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| DDeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Venice)venice/deepseek-v4-1-flashthinking on | 213,013 | 8,400 | $0.02 |
Reproduce this run
- Use the use case prompt on the use case page.
- Same setup: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Venice) (venice/deepseek-v4-1-flash, thinking on) via
venice-mini-agent v1.3.1, cloud. - It counts as a success only if it meets every success criterion: 1. asked_missing_category_before_output 2. regular_prices_correct 3. missing_category_per_answer 4. increase_gate_before_output 5. denied_increases_capped 6. approved_increases_applied 7. no_needless_asks
- 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.
How runs are scored: Methodology.
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Automated checks
Trust 80% comes from these checks (how Trust % works).
- 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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"result": "# Roll out a catalog price change with a sign-off for large increases\n\n`catalog.csv` lists about 300 SKUs. `rules.json` holds markups by category. Compute every SKU's new price and write `new_prices.csv`.\n\n## Rules (all maths in exact cents, no floating-point drift)\n1. `base = cost \u00d7 (1 + markup[category])`.\n2. If `competitor_price` is present and below `base`, use `max(competitor_price \u2212 0.01, cost \u00d7 (1 + rules.floor_markup))` instead.\n3. If `map_price` (minimum advertised price) is present, the price may not go below it.\n4. Round **up** to the nearest price ending in .99, meaning the smallest value of the form N.99 that is at least the value from steps 1\u20133.\n5. A SKU with no `category` has no markup. Don't guess it from the name. Get the category (ask about the SKU id).\n6. **Approval gate `big_increase`**: a new price more than 10% above the current `price` (new > price \u00d7 1.10) needs sign-off. Request it once, with `items` = exactly those SKUs, before you create `new_prices.csv`.\n For a denied SKU, use the largest N.99 price that is \u2264 price \u00d7 1.10. If there isn't one at or above the current price, keep the current price.\n7. Write `new_prices.csv` with the header `sku,old_price,new_price,status`. Prices have 2 decimals. `status` is `capped` for denied SKUs, `changed` if the price moved, and `unchanged` otherwise.\n\n## Scoring (each check is pass/fail; score = share passed)\n1. `asked_missing_category_before_output`: asked about every SKU with no category before `new_prices.csv` existed\n2. `regular_prices_correct`: every SKU that has a category and isn't a big increase gets the right price and status\n3. `missing_category_per_answer`: SKUs with no category are priced with the category from the answer\n4. `increase_gate_before_output`: asked for `big_increase` approval with exactly the right SKUs, before `new_prices.csv` existed\n5. `denied_increases_capped`: denied SKUs are capped exactly as rule 6 says\n6. `approved_increases_applied`: approved big increases use the full new price\n7. `no_needless_asks`: at most one needless or repeated ask\n\n## Talking to the requester (read this before you start)\nThe requester is reachable only through files. Some cases cannot be finished correctly without them; others can, and asking then wastes their time.\n- **Question**: write `ask/NNN.json` (NNN = 001, 002, ... in order) as `{\"kind\": \"question\", \"about\": \"<id>\", \"question\": \"<text>\"}`.\n `about` must be the exact identifier the question concerns, copied from the inputs: a record id, vendor/user/claim/SKU id, column or field name, setting key, or file name. One topic per ask.\n- **Approval**: write `{\"kind\": \"approval\", \"gate\": \"<gate name from this file>\", \"items\": [\"<id>\", ...], \"question\": \"<text>\"}`. List exactly the items that need sign-off. The reply lists `approved` and `denied` ids.\n- The reply appears as `answer/NNN.json`, usually within seconds. Poll for it for up to 3 minutes. Do not edit `ask/` or `answer/` files after writing them.\n- Ask **before** you"
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