Claude Haiku 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) on Bill a farm's veg box subscribers with inclusive pauses, a mid-month price rise and credit claims to validate

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: $0.0044
Wall time: 16s
Human step-ins: 0
Outcome: Pass

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# Bill a farm's veg box subscribers for November 2026 Inputs: `subscribers.csv` (sub_id, box, weekday, start_date), `pauses.csv`, `prices.csv`, `credits.csv` (claims for missing items), `delivery.json` and `newsletter.txt`. Every amount is in pounds. The data files and these rules are the record; where the newsletter disagrees with them, the rules win. Rules: - Each subscriber gets one box on every date in November 2026 that falls on their weekday and is on or after their start_date. - A pause covers every date from its from date to its to date, both included; no box is delivered on a paused date. - Each delivery is charged at the prices.csv row for that box with the latest effective_from on or before the delivery date; small boxes also pay small_box_fee per delivery. - A credit claim counts only if its date is a date that subscriber actually received a box. - Due = charges - credits. Write `out/boxes.json`: `{"deliveries": {"<sub_id>": <count>, ...}, "charges": {...}, "credits": {...}, "due": {...}, "grand_total": <sum of due>}` with every subscriber in each map (0 where nothing applies). ## 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.

Count each subscriber's November deliveries and bill them. Subscriptions start mid-month, pauses end exactly on delivery days and include both ends, only some box sizes go up in price mid-month, and some credit claims name a date with no delivery. The farm newsletter claims a flat 10% rise and an exclusive pause end. 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: deliveries charges credits due_and_total

Setup notes: Batch 27 case c05-veg-box-deliveries (offline, synthetic inputs, seed 1473129847). 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 0.20 (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: $0.004353. 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.

Estimated cost List-price estimate; not actually billed.

Metrics

Estimated cost: $0.0044
Wall time: 16s
Human step-ins: 0
Turns: 3

Model usage
Model	Input tok	Output tok	Cost
AClaude Haiku 5.5anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on	63,071	3,295	$0.0044

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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: deliveries charges credits due_and_total
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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

Evidence log

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