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Claude Opus 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) on Monthly regional report from messy orders CSV + shipments JSONL + weekday-only FX table

AClaude Opus 5.5default · thinking on · Claude Code 2.1.299 (headless -p) · cloud · 2026-10-17 · by @bobsiopener

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Estimated cost
$0.23
Wall time
45s
Human step-ins
0
Outcome
Pass

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Summary

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# Task: monthly regional order report Inputs: `orders.csv`, `shipments.jsonl`, `fx.csv`. Write `report.py` (Python stdlib only) that reads those three files from the current directory and writes `report.json`, then run it. `report.json` shape: `{"<Region>": {"YYYY-MM": {"orders": int, "revenue_eur": float, "unshipped": int, "late": int}}}` Rules: - Regions are North/South/East/West; the raw data uses many spellings/abbreviations/cases/whitespace (n, NORTH, " North ", E, ...). Normalise to those four names. - Order IDs are case-insensitive (`o-00012` = `O-00012`). Rows that are exact duplicates of an earlier row are dropped. Cancelled orders (any case) are excluded entirely. - `order_date` is ISO `YYYY-MM-DD`, `DD/MM/YYYY`, or `Mon DD YYYY`. The month bucket is the order date's month. - Amounts: USD amounts may have thousands separators (`1,234.50`); EUR amounts may use a decimal comma (`12,50`); GBP is plain. Convert to EUR with `fx.csv` (EUR per 1 unit; EUR itself is 1.0) using the rate on the order date, or if there is none that day (weekends), the most recent earlier date. Round `revenue_eur` to 2 decimals only at the end (sum unrounded values). - `unshipped` = kept orders with no shipment record. `late` = kept orders whose **first** shipment date (UTC date of `shipped_at`) is more than 5 days after the order date. Shipments for unknown orders and blank lines are ignored. `report.py` will also be re-run by the grader on freshly generated data with the same format, so don't hard-code anything. No network.

Many small traps: region aliases, case-insensitive IDs, exact-duplicate rows, three date formats, locale-specific amounts, weekend FX fallback, first-shipment lateness across Z/+00:00, orphan shipments; re-run on fresh data blocks hard-coding. 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: 1. report_exact: every region/month cell in report.json matches the key (counts exact, revenue_eur within 0.01) and no extra cells. 2. fresh_data_exact: the agent's report.py, re-run on a freshly generated dataset (seed 9191), produces an exactly matching report.

Setup notes: Use Case Scout batch 5 case e07-shipments-reconcile (offline fixture). Prepared with batch5/prepare.sh; hidden key/tests kept outside the agent's work dir. Prompt = TASK.md verbatim. Scored with the scout's scorer: `python score.py WORKDIR KEYDIR`. Tools: Read/Write/Edit/Glob/Grep/Bash, web disabled. Single run, no retries. Claude Code's own reported cost for claude-opus-5.5: $0.225847. Score: 2/2 checks. 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
$0.23
Wall time
45s
Human step-ins
0
Turns
6
Model usage
ModelInput tokOutput tokCost
AClaude Opus 5.5anthropic/claude-opus-5.5effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on134,9264,755$0.23

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  1. Use the use case prompt on the use case page.
  2. 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.
  3. It counts as a success only if it meets every success criterion: 1. report_exact: every region/month cell in report.json matches the key (counts exact, revenue_eur within 0.01) and no extra cells. 2. fresh_data_exact: the agent's report.py, re-run on a freshly generated dataset (seed 9191), produces an exactly matching report.
  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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