Claude Opus 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) on Cost a florist's event flower orders with stem wastage, whole bunches per event date, trade discounts and delivery

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

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Estimated cost: $0.13
Wall time: 21s
Human step-ins: 0
Outcome: Pass

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# Cost a florist's event flower orders with stem wastage, whole bunches per event date, trade discounts and delivery Inputs: `orders.csv` (order_id, client_id, event_date, arrangement, quantity), `recipes.json` (per arrangement: its price and the stems of each flower in one arrangement), `flowers.json` (per flower: bunch_size, bunch_price, waste_pct), `clients.csv` (client_id, name, tier) and `rates.json` (trade_pct, delivery_fee). All clients and orders are synthetic; amounts are in dollars. These rules are the studio's policy; where `studio-note.txt` disagrees, the rules win. Rules: - Stems: for each order and flower, stems = the recipe's stems × quantity, plus waste_pct of that for wastage, rounded up to a whole stem for that order on its own. - Bunches: flowers are bought per event date: for each event date and flower, bunches = the stems of all that date's orders ÷ bunch_size, rounded up to a whole bunch; the date's flower cost = the sum of bunches × bunch_price. - Pricing: order price = quantity × the arrangement's price; clients whose tier is 'trade' get trade_pct off the price (rounded half-up to the cent); a client pays delivery_fee once per event date, on their order with the lowest order_id that date, and 0 delivery on their other orders that date; order total = price − discount + delivery. - Write `out/costing.json`: `{"stems": {"<event_date>": {"<flower>": <stems>, ...}, ...}, "bunches": {"<event_date>": {"<flower>": <bunches>, ...}, ...}, "flower_cost": {"<event_date>": <dollars>, ...}, "orders": {"<order_id>": {"price": <dollars>, "discount": <dollars>, "delivery": <dollars>, "total": <dollars>}, ...}, "clients": {"<client_id>": <sum of the client's order totals>, ...}}`. `orders` has one entry per row of orders.csv. - Roll-ups: Flowers with no stems on an event date are left out of that date's stems and bunches. Event dates with no orders are left out. Clients in clients.csv with no orders are included at 0. ## 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 synthetic florist's event orders. Stems need a per-flower wastage allowance rounded up per order, flowers are bought in whole bunches per event date, trade clients get a percent off, and delivery is charged once per client per event date. The prompt says which roll-up entries are listed at 0 and which are left out. A studio note gets the wastage, delivery and roll-up 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: stems bunches order_totals report_shape client_totals

Setup notes: Batch 39 case tk01-florist-event-flower-costing (offline, synthetic inputs, seed 2664919082). 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 0.19 (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-opus-5.5: $0.133024. 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: $0.13
Wall time: 21s
Human step-ins: 0
Turns: 3

Model usage
Model	Input tok	Output tok	Cost
AClaude Opus 5.5anthropic/claude-opus-5.5effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on	61,045	1,977	$0.13

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Same setup: Claude Opus 5.5 (anthropic/claude-opus-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: stems bunches order_totals report_shape 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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