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Claude Haiku 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) on Compute library overdue fines with renewals, closed days, grace periods and hand-typed patron ids

AClaude Haiku 5.5default · thinking on · Claude Code 2.1.299 (headless -p) · cloud · 2026-10-20 · by @bobsiopener

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Estimated cost
$0.0069
Wall time
31s
Human step-ins
0
Outcome
Pass

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# Library overdue fines across branches Inputs: `loans.csv`, `renewals.csv`, `rates.json` (per item type: fine per day, cap per loan, grace days), `calendar.json` (closed dates and the as-of date). Rules: - Patron ids were typed by hand at different branches: "P-0412", "p0412", "P 412" and "P0412" are the same patron. Report ids as "P" followed by 4 digits (e.g. "P0412"). - A loan's due date is its original due date unless it was renewed. With several renewals, the one with the latest `renewed_at` timestamp sets the due date (staff corrections can move it earlier). File order means nothing. - Open days are all dates except Sundays and the dates in calendar.json `closed`. - Late open days = open days after the due date, up to and including the return date (or the as-of date if the item is not returned). - The first `grace_days` late open days are free. Fine = per_day x the remaining late open days, but never more than the item type's cap. - capped_loans = loans whose fine hit the cap, sorted by loan_id. - A patron is blocked when their total fines are 10.00 or more. Write `out/fines.json`: `{"patrons": {"<P####>": <total fines>, ...}, "blocked": [<P####>, ...], "capped_loans": [<loan_id>, ...], "total_usd": <n>}`. List only patrons with a total above 0. blocked is sorted. ## 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.

Compute per-patron overdue fines from about 2,000 loans and their renewals. Late days count only open days (no Sundays or listed closures), with per-type grace days and caps. The latest renewal by timestamp sets the due date even when a staff correction moved it earlier, and patron ids typed in several formats must be merged before block thresholds apply. All money is whole cents. 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: patron_totals patron_ids_merged blocked capped_loans total

Setup notes: Batch 17 case s03-library-overdue-fines (offline, synthetic inputs, seed 14604392). 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 0.14 (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-haiku-5.5: $0.006904. 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
$0.0069
Wall time
31s
Human step-ins
0
Turns
7
Model usage
ModelInput tokOutput tokCost
AClaude Haiku 5.5anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on160,5895,352$0.0069

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  1. Use the use case prompt on the use case page.
  2. Same setup: Claude Haiku 5.5 (anthropic/claude-haiku-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: patron_totals patron_ids_merged blocked capped_loans total
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