Claude Sonnet 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking off) on Pay a quarter's sales commission with marginal tiers, split deals and in-quarter refunds

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

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Estimated cost: $0.06
Wall time: 11s
Human step-ins: 0
Outcome: Pass

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# Pay Q3 2026 sales commission Inputs: `deals.csv` (CRM export), `splits.csv` (deals shared between reps), `refunds.csv` and `comp-plan.json` (tiers). Work out commission for every rep for Q3 2026 (2026-07-01 to 2026-09-30). - Only deals with stage `closed_won` and a `close_date` inside the quarter count. - A deal listed in `splits.csv` credits each rep `share_pct` percent of its amount; any other deal credits its owner in full. - A refund dated inside the quarter reduces the refunded deal's amount before splitting; refunds dated after the quarter are left for next quarter. - Tiers are marginal: each tier's rate applies only to the part of the rep's quarterly credited bookings that falls inside that tier. - Work exactly; round only the reported figures, to 2 decimals half-up. Write `out/commission.json`: `{"bookings": {"<rep>": <credited bookings>, ...}, "commission": {"<rep>": <commission>, ...}, "total_commission": <sum of the rounded commission figures>}`. List every rep who has credited bookings. ## 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.

Work out each sales rep's commission for a quarter from a CRM export of won and lost deals, split credits and refunds. Tiers are marginal on each rep's quarterly credited bookings, split deals credit each rep only their share, lost or out-of-quarter deals don't count, and only refunds issued inside the quarter reduce bookings. Applying the top tier to everything, crediting splits in full or counting every refund each changes someone's pay. 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: bookings_credited marginal_tiers refund_timing deal_filter

Setup notes: Batch 22 case x02-sales-commission-tiers (offline, synthetic inputs, seed 168879701). 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 0.88 (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: $0.055383. 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: $0.06
Wall time: 11s
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	78,754	1,398	$0.06

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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: bookings_credited marginal_tiers refund_timing deal_filter
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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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  "result": "I've calculated Q3 2026 commission for all seven reps and written it to `out/commission.json`. Total commission is 27,214.60. I haven't cross-checked the figures by hand.\n\n| Rep | Credited bookings | Commission |\n|---|---|---|\n| amara.k | 38,664.70 | 1,546.59 |\n| hina.t | 59,405.04 | 2,376.20 |\n| chen.w | 163,834.30 | 10,152.60 |\n| dalia.r | 66,484.91 | 2,853.94 |\n| gareth.m | 91,875.87 | 4,631.31 |\n| fatou.d | 71,578.55 | 3,210.50 |\n| eitan.g | 60,620.85 | 2,443.46 |\n\nOnly one refund fell inside the quarter, 4,883.45 on D-3217 dated 2026-09-21. The other three are dated after 30 September and are left for next quarter.\n\nThe input files had no duplicate deal IDs or other oddities. I did the arithmetic in exact decimals and rounded only the reported figures, half-up to 2 decimals.",
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