Claude Sonnet 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking off) on Pick the most valuable set of jobs for one crew when moving between sites costs time

AClaude Sonnet 5.5default · thinking off · Claude Code 2.1.299 (headless -p) · cloud · 2026-10-21 · by @bobsiopener

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Estimated cost: $0.04
Wall time: 9s
Human step-ins: 0
Outcome: Pass

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# Build the most valuable day schedule for one crew Inputs: `jobs.csv` (job_id, site, start, end, value_usd; times are HH:MM on the same day) and `rules.json` (`changeover_minutes`). Rules: - The crew does one job at a time and must do a job from its start to its end. - Between two consecutive jobs at different sites the crew needs at least `changeover_minutes` from the end of one to the start of the next. Consecutive jobs at the same site only need the next start to be at or after the previous end. - Choose the set of jobs with the highest total value. The data has exactly one best set. - what_if_value = the best total value if changeover_minutes were doubled. Write `out/schedule.json`: `{"jobs": ["<job_id>", ... in start order], "total_value": <usd>, "job_count": <int>, "what_if_value": <usd>}`. ## 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.

Choose jobs for one crew from 22-28 timed offers across four sites. Moving between different sites needs a changeover gap; staying on one site does not. Return the unique best set and the best value if the gap doubled. Every seed is drawn so that earliest-finish-first and highest-value-first greedy rules are strictly worse than the optimum, and ignoring changeovers gives a different set. 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). Folder-restore note: this run's output files under work/out/ were lost in a 1:22 AM ET restore on Oct 21, 2026. The trace, step-in exchanges and output-hash list were checked against the recorded SHA-256 values and match; the hashes of the individual output files inside that list can no longer be recomputed. Measured data unchanged.

Success criteria: optimal_jobs optimal_value changeover_respected what_if_doubled_gap

Setup notes: Batch 18 case t05-crew-day-schedule (offline, synthetic inputs, seed 276027779). 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 0.11 (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: $0.040421. 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.

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Metrics

Estimated cost: $0.04
Wall time: 9s
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 off	56,069	872	$0.04

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Same setup: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5, effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking off) via Claude Code 2.1.299 (headless -p), cloud.
It counts as a success only if it meets every success criterion: optimal_jobs optimal_value changeover_respected what_if_doubled_gap
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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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