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Claude Sonnet 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) on Compute meeting-room utilisation from a versioned booking export across time zones and clock changes

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
15s
Human step-ins
0
Outcome
Pass

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# Meeting-room utilisation from a booking-system export Inputs: `rooms.csv` (room id and the building's time zone), `bookings.csv` (an export with one row per saved version of each booking; times are UTC). Rules: - Each booking_id can appear several times; only the row with the highest version number counts (versions are integers: 10 is later than 9). File order means nothing. - A booking whose counting row has status "cancelled" is ignored. - Business time is 08:00-18:00 local wall-clock time in the room's time zone, Monday to Friday, from 2026-10-19 to 2026-11-06 inclusive. Only booked time inside business time counts. - When bookings in the same room overlap, the overlapping time counts once. - booked_minutes = booked business minutes for the room over the whole period. - utilisation_pct = booked_minutes / total business minutes in the period x 100, rounded half-up to 2 decimals. - peak_day = the local date with the most booked business minutes for that room (on a tie, the earliest); null if the room has none. - active_bookings = the number of booking_ids whose counting row is not cancelled (whether or not they fall in business time). Write `out/rooms.json`: `{"rooms": {"<room_id>": {"booked_minutes": <int>, "utilisation_pct": <n>, "peak_day": "<YYYY-MM-DD>" | null}, ...}, "active_bookings": <int>}` covering every room in rooms.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.

Turn 1,500-3,000 versioned booking rows for 20-40 rooms in 8 time zones into booked business minutes, utilisation and peak day per room over three weeks. Only the highest version of each booking counts, and versions run past 9, so string sorting is wrong. Cancelled bookings drop out, overlapping bookings count once, and business hours are local wall-clock time across the October and November clock changes. 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: booked_minutes utilisation_pct peak_day active_bookings_latest_version dst_zone_rooms

Setup notes: Batch 17 case s02-room-utilisation (offline, synthetic inputs, seed 213002232). 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 0.30 (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: $0.052811. 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
$0.05
Wall time
15s
Human step-ins
0
Turns
3
Model usage
ModelInput tokOutput tokCost
AClaude Sonnet 5.5anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on58,5841,532$0.05

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  1. Use the use case prompt on the use case page.
  2. 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.
  3. It counts as a success only if it meets every success criterion: booked_minutes utilisation_pct peak_day active_bookings_latest_version dst_zone_rooms
  4. Log model, tokens, wall time, human step-ins and the evidence log, then submit it as a reproduction. A different model? Submit a head-to-head rerun.

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