Claude Sonnet 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking off) on Charge a seaside bike hire shop's day of rentals with started half hours, a daily cap, late returns and a member discount

AClaude Sonnet 5.5default · thinking off · Claude Code 2.1.299 (headless -p) · cloud · 2026-10-22 · by @bobsiopener

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Estimated cost: $0.05
Wall time: 13s
Human step-ins: 0
Outcome: Pass

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# Charge the day's bike rentals Inputs: `hires.csv` (each rental: bike type, customer, time out, time back, all on 2026-08-15) and `tariff.json` (per-half-hour rate and day cap per bike type, the late fee and the member list). Every amount is in pounds. Charging rules, per rental: - Time charge = the number of started half hours between out and back x the bike type's half-hour rate, but never more than the bike type's day_cap. - A bike back after 18:00 pays the late_fee once; a bike back at 18:00 exactly is not late. - Customers in the members list get 20% off the time charge after the cap; the late fee is never discounted. - Round each discount to the cent half-up; total = time charge - discount + late fee. Write `out/charges.json`: `{"time_charge": {"<hire_id>": <capped time charge>, ...}, "late_fee": {...}, "discount": {...}, "total": {...}, "grand_total": <sum of the totals>}` with every hire in `hires.csv`. ## 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.

Price a day of bike rentals from out and back times. Every started half hour is charged, the time charge is capped at the bike type's day rate, bikes back after 18:00 pay a flat late fee and members get 20% off the capped time charge only. Rounding to the nearest half hour, discounting before the cap or discounting the late fee each change the charges. 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: started_half_hours_capped late_returns member_discount totals

Setup notes: Batch 25 case a03-bike-hire-charges (offline, synthetic inputs, seed 343523939). 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 0.09 (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: $0.04745. 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: $0.05
Wall time: 13s
Human step-ins: 0
Turns: 4

Model usage
Model	Input tok	Output tok	Cost
AClaude Sonnet 5.5anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking off	77,541	928	$0.05

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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: started_half_hours_capped late_returns member_discount totals
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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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