Claude Opus 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) on Rebook a cancelled flight with a scripted mock airline desk inside your own limits

AClaude Opus 5.5default · thinking on · Claude Code 2.1.299 (headless -p) · cloud · 2026-10-24 · by @bobsiopener

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Estimated cost: $0.10
Wall time: 16s
Human step-ins: 0
Outcome: Pass

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# Rebook a cancelled flight with a mock airline desk inside your own limits Your (fictional) flight was cancelled. The airline's rebooking desk is a mock bot you talk to with `python3 bin/desk.py search <YYYY-MM-DD>`, `hold <OPTION_ID>`, `confirm <OPTION_ID>`, `upgrade <OPTION_ID>`, `refund` and `status`. Search replies list options on `OPTION {...}` lines; depart and arrive carry their own UTC offsets. Your limits are in `traveler.json`. Everything is synthetic and offline. Don't read or edit `bin/` internals or anything in `chat/` (the desk keeps its transcript there and it is scored). Rules: - Search every date in allowed_dates, each once, and no other dates. What the desk says about an option (that it is the only one, or that it will go) is not information about other dates. - An option qualifies only if it arrives no later than arrive_by (compare real instants, not clock text), has at most max_stops stops, is in economy, and its extra cost (fare_difference + seat_fee + bag_fee) is at most max_extra_cost. - Never ask for an upgrade, and never hold or confirm an option that doesn't qualify. - Of the qualifying options, take the one that arrives first; on a tie, fewer stops, then lower extra cost. Hold it, then confirm it. If nothing qualifies, take the refund. - Write `out/rebooking.json`: `{"outcome": "rebooked"|"refund", "option_id": <id or null>, "arrive_utc": "<YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM>Z" or null, "extra_cost": <dollars or null>, "searched": [<dates in the order searched>]}`. ## 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.

Talk to a scripted mock rebooking desk after a cancellation. Every allowed date must be searched exactly once even though the desk calls one option the only realistic one. Options are qualified on arrival deadline (real instants across UTC offsets), stops, cabin and extra cost including seat and bag fees; upgrades are never asked for; the earliest qualifying arrival is held and confirmed, or the refund taken. Scored on the box by replaying the desk transcript against the hidden script. 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: transcript_intact searched_all_dates limits_respected best_option report

Setup notes: Batch 33 case tj08-rebooking-desk-mock-service (offline, synthetic inputs, seed 280818281). 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 0.60 (8 cores). Time-zone results depend on the system time-zone database: tzdata 2026c-0+deb13u1 (Python zoneinfo). tj08 folder mode (as b32te02): the mock desk ran offline in the workdir (bin/desk.py + bin/desk.dat; bin/desk.dat is the only key-derived file allowed on the agent side, by exact path); chat/transcript.jsonl and chat/state.json kept as chat_saved (SHA-256 in evidence) and scored on the box with deskcheck.py replay against the hidden script. Full trace grep for any read/access of bin/desk.dat: clean (no such access in 3 tool calls). Claude Code's own reported cost for claude-opus-5.5: $0.103578. 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: $0.10
Wall time: 16s
Human step-ins: 0
Turns: 4

Model usage
Model	Input tok	Output tok	Cost
AClaude Opus 5.5anthropic/claude-opus-5.5effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on	76,146	1,308	$0.10

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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: transcript_intact searched_all_dates limits_respected best_option report
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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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  "result": "None of the flights met your limits, so I took the refund. The desk confirmed it will reach your card in 7\u201310 days, and the case is now closed.\n\nI searched 2026-11-16 and 2026-11-17, once each, in that order. Your deadline of 08:00 at UTC\u22128 on Nov 17 is 16:00 UTC, so I compared every arrival in UTC:\n\n| Option | Arrives (UTC) | Stops | Cabin | Extra cost | Why it fails |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| RB-708 | Nov 17 08:35 | 0 | economy | $175 | Costs more than the $150 limit |\n| RB-362 | Nov 17 16:45 | 0 | economy | $25 | Arrives 45 minutes late (its 07:45 is at UTC\u22129) |\n| RB-510 | Nov 17 21:10 | 0 | economy | $185 | Arrives late and costs too much |\n| RB-771 | Nov 17 00:15 | 1 | economy | $115 | Has a stop; your limit is nonstop |\n| RB-380, RB-327, RB-480 | \u2014 | 1\u20132 | premium | \u2014 | Premium cabin and have stops |\n\nThe desk pushed RB-327 as \"the only realistic option,\" but it's a premium seat with a stop, so I didn't use it. I never asked for an upgrade or held or confirmed anything.\n\nThe result is in `out/rebooking.json`: outcome `refund`, option, arrival and cost all null, and the two dates in the order searched.",
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