Claude Sonnet 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) on Split a shared house's utility bills by days of occupancy, to the cent

AClaude Sonnet 5.5default · thinking on · Claude Code 2.1.299 (headless -p) · cloud · 2026-10-20 · by @bobsiopener

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Estimated cost: $0.05
Wall time: 10s
Human step-ins: 0
Outcome: Pass

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# Split a shared house's utility bills by days of occupancy Inputs: `housemates.json` (each person's move-in and move-out dates; null means still living there), `bills.json` (each bill's amount, service period and who paid it). Rules: - A person occupies the house on every date from move_in to move_out, both inclusive. - For each bill, a person's days = the dates inside the bill's service period (both ends inclusive) that they occupy the house. - Share = bill amount x person's days / sum of all people's days for that bill, rounded half-up to the cent. - If the rounded shares don't add up to the bill amount, add or remove the difference one cent at a time, starting with the person with the most days on that bill (ties: alphabetical by name), cycling in that order. - People with 0 days on a bill owe nothing for it and are left out of that bill's shares. - net_usd = what the person paid minus the total of their shares (positive means they are owed money). Write `out/split.json`: `{"days": {"<bill_id>": {"<name>": <int>, ...}}, "shares": {"<bill_id>": {"<name>": <usd>, ...}}, "owed_usd": {"<name>": <usd>}, "net_usd": {"<name>": <usd>}}`. `owed_usd` and `net_usd` cover every housemate. ## 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.

Prorate six utility bills across 4-6 housemates who moved in and out on different dates, then work out what each owes and their net balance. Shares are rounded half-up to the cent, and a stated cent-by-cent rule makes each bill's shares add up exactly. Draws whose shares fall within 1e-4 of a half-cent tie are rejected. 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: occupancy_days prorated_shares shares_sum_to_bill zero_day_people_excluded owed_totals net_balances

Setup notes: Batch 16 case r05-shared-bills-split (offline, synthetic inputs, seed 280144832). 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 0.21 (8 cores). Claude Code's own reported cost for claude-sonnet-5.5: $0.04836. Score: 6/6. 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: $0.05
Wall time: 10s
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	58,406	1,109	$0.05

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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.
It counts as a success only if it meets every success criterion: occupancy_days prorated_shares shares_sum_to_bill zero_day_people_excluded owed_totals net_balances
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Automated checks

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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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