Claude Opus 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) on Break down a home's electricity use by appliance from one plug's power readings and flag the faulty appliance

AClaude Opus 5.5default · thinking on · Claude Code 2.1.299 (headless -p) · cloud · 2026-10-25 · by @bobsiopener

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Estimated cost: $0.13
Wall time: 19s
Human step-ins: 0
Outcome: Pass

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# Break down a home's electricity use by appliance from one plug's power readings and flag the faulty appliance Inputs: `power.csv` (t, watts: one reading per second from a single monitoring plug, t from 0) and `appliances.csv` (appliance_id, name, rated_w) for the appliances behind that plug. The home, the appliances and the readings are synthetic; the readings include a steady always-on load and random meter noise of a few watts. These rules are the household's; where `meter-notes.txt` disagrees, the rules win. Rules: - Events: a switch event happens at second t when |watts[t] − watts[t−1]| is 30 W or more. Its step is median(watts[t] … watts[t+8]) − median(watts[t−9] … watts[t−1]) (nine readings after and nine before, both medians of whole watts); a positive step is a switch-on and a negative step a switch-off. - Matching: an event belongs to the appliance whose rated_w R satisfies 0.75 × R ≤ |step| ≤ 1.5 × R (the ratings are spaced so that exactly one fits). Each switch-off ends that appliance's current on-period, which started at its last switch-on. - Use: an appliance's on_count is its number of switch-ons, its on_seconds the total of (switch-off t − switch-on t) over its on-periods, and its energy_wh the sum over its on-periods of the switch-on step × the period's seconds ÷ 3600. energy_wh is compared to within 0.5 Wh; on_count, on_seconds and faulty must match exactly. - Faulty: an appliance is faulty when any of its switch-on steps is more than 15% above its rated_w (step > 1.15 × rated_w). - Write `out/appliances.json`: `{"on_count": {"<appliance_id>": <n>, ...}, "on_seconds": {"<appliance_id>": <s>, ...}, "energy_wh": {"<appliance_id>": <Wh>, ...}, "faulty": [<sorted appliance_ids>]}`. - Roll-ups: Appliances in appliances.csv that never switch on are included at 0. ## 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.

Split one monitoring plug's second-by-second power readings for a synthetic home into its appliances. The readings carry an always-on load and seeded meter noise; switch events, step sizes (medians of nine readings each side), the matching window around each rating and the 0.5 Wh energy tolerance are all stated. One appliance develops a fault and starts drawing well over its rating. The prompt says appliances that never switch on are listed at 0. Meter notes get the step, fault and roll-up rules wrong. 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: on_count on_seconds energy_wh faulty idle_appliances

Setup notes: Batch 40 case tn02-home-plug-power-breakdown (offline, synthetic inputs, seed 315127888). 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 0.13 (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: $0.128211. 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: $0.13
Wall time: 19s
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	79,197	1,914	$0.13

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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: on_count on_seconds energy_wh faulty idle_appliances
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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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