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Claude Haiku 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) on Pay holiday-let owners for a month with stays crossing the month end, platform commission, cleaning charges and a capped tourist tax

AClaude Haiku 5.5default · thinking on · Claude Code 2.1.299 (headless -p) · cloud · 2026-10-22 · by @bobsiopener

Trust 80%Fully autonomoussuccess · first try
Estimated cost
$0.0059
Wall time
20s
Human step-ins
0
Outcome
Pass

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# Pay holiday-let owners for October 2026 Inputs: `bookings.csv` (every booking touching October 2026 across the agency's properties, from a direct-booking site or a listing platform), `properties.json` (property -> owner) and `rules.json`. Owner statement rules: - Cancelled bookings are ignored. - Only nights in October 2026 count: a stay that crosses into or out of October pays the owner for its October nights only (a night belongs to the date you sleep there; the check-out date is not a night). - Room revenue = October nights x `nightly_rate`. Platform bookings lose `platform_commission_pct` of their room revenue; direct bookings don't. - Management fee = `management_fee_pct` of room revenue after platform commission. - Cleaning: the owner pays `cleaning_fee` for each stay that checks out in October. - Tourist tax is collected from guests for the council and is not owner income: `tourist_tax_per_adult_night` per adult per night, for at most the first `tourist_tax_max_nights` nights of a stay (counted from check-in); report the October nights' tax per property. - Payout = room revenue after commission - management fee - cleaning, rounded half-up to the cent per property. Tourist tax is rounded the same way. Write `out/payouts.json`: `{"payout": {"<property>": <payout>, ...}, "tourist_tax": {"<property>": <tax>, ...}, "total_payout": <sum of rounded payouts>}` for every property in `properties.json`. ## 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.

Write each owner's monthly statement for a holiday-let agency. Only nights inside the month count, platform bookings lose commission before the management fee is taken, cleaning is charged per check-out, and the guests' tourist tax is reported separately with a cap on nights per stay. Counting whole stays, taking the fee on gross revenue or ignoring the tax cap each change the statements. 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: october_nights management_fee tourist_tax_cap payout

Setup notes: Batch 23 case y05-holiday-let-payouts (offline, synthetic inputs, seed 2308414180). 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 1.51 (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: $0.005946. 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
$0.0059
Wall time
20s
Human step-ins
0
Turns
5
Model usage
ModelInput tokOutput tokCost
AClaude Haiku 5.5anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on114,8023,921$0.0059

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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: october_nights management_fee tourist_tax_cap payout
  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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  "result": "I wrote `out/payouts.json` with October 2026 payouts for all five properties. The total payout is \u00a315,409.00 \u2014 the currency wasn't specified, so I've left the amounts unitless.\n\n| Property | Payout | Tourist tax |\n|---|---|---|\n| Bramble End | 2408.71 | 142.50 |\n| Mill Loft | 3680.96 | 150.00 |\n| The Granary | 2943.84 | 155.00 |\n| Pilot House | 2774.25 | 182.50 |\n| Curlew Cottage | 3601.24 | 205.00 |\n\nHow I applied the rules:\n- **Cancelled bookings:** BK3604 (Curlew Cottage) is excluded.\n- **October nights:** Only nights dated 1\u201331 October count. Cross-month stays are pro-rated, so BK3317 (Granary, 28 Sep\u20137 Oct) counts 6 nights and BK3517 (Curlew, 22 Sep\u20134 Oct) counts 3.\n- **Platform commission:** 15.5% of room revenue on platform bookings only.\n- **Management fee:** 20% of revenue after commission.\n- **Cleaning:** \u00a365 per stay whose check-out falls in October. Stays checking out in November get none.\n- **Tourist tax:** \u00a32.50 per adult per night, applied to the first 7 nights counted from check-in, and only to October nights within that window. For example, BK3517's October nights fall on nights 10\u201312 of its stay, so it has zero tax.\n- **Rounding:** No intermediate rounding. Each property's payout and tax are rounded half-up to the cent at the end.\n\nI calculated everything with a script kept outside the work directory (`/tmp/payout_calc/calc.py`). I checked the per-booking figures by hand on the tax edge cases. The `ask/` directory is untouched.",
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