Claude Opus 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) on Size reorders from sales history that hides lost demand on empty-shelf days, promotions and item code changes

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

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Estimated cost: $0.11
Wall time: 23s
Human step-ins: 0
Outcome: Pass

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# Work out this week's reorder quantities Inputs: `daily_sales.csv` (last 56 days: units sold and units left on the shelf at close, per item), `promotions.csv`, `sku_changes.csv`, `items.json` (supplier lead time and cover target per item, units on hand now) and `purchase_orders.csv`. Estimate each item's normal daily demand, then size an order for every current item. - Normal daily demand is the average of units sold on days that reflect normal demand. Sales on a day the shelf ran empty don't show the full demand, and promotion days aren't normal. - Some items changed code during the period; treat the old and new codes as one item's history and report under the current code. - Order quantity = demand x (lead time + cover days), rounded up to a whole unit, minus units on hand now and units already on order, and never below 0. - Only purchase orders that are still going to arrive count as on order. Write `out/reorder.json`: `{"daily_demand": {"<sku>": <units, 2 decimals half-up>, ...}, "order_qty": {"<sku>": <n>, ...}, "to_order": [<skus with order_qty > 0, sorted>], "censored_days": <n>}`. `censored_days` is the number of item-days excluded because the shelf ran empty (after merging codes; a promotion day on which the shelf ran empty counts as a promotion day, not here). ## 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.

Estimate normal daily demand for 8-11 items from 56 days of sales and size this week's orders. Empty-shelf days understate demand, promotion days overstate it, two items changed code mid-period, and some purchase orders are cancelled or already received. A plain average, a promo-only correction, or counting every PO as on order each gives different order quantities. 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: demand order_qty to_order censored_days code_merge

Setup notes: Batch 19 case u03-reorder-from-censored-sales (offline, synthetic inputs, seed 51823679). 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: $0.108938. 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.

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Metrics

Estimated cost: $0.11
Wall time: 23s
Human step-ins: 0
Turns: 5

Model usage
Model	Input tok	Output tok	Cost
AClaude Opus 5.5anthropic/claude-opus-5.5effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on	104,027	2,358	$0.11

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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.
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