Claude Haiku 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) on Bill a month of electricity from shuffled meter reads with estimates, rollovers and a meter exchange

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

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Estimated cost: $0.0052
Wall time: 22s
Human step-ins: 0
Outcome: Partial

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# Bill September electricity from meter reads Inputs: `meters.csv` (each account's meters, including one exchange), `reads.csv` (actual "A" and estimated "E" reads, in no order) and `tariff.json`. Bill every account for the period from the opening read date to the closing read date in `tariff.json`. - Consumption = closing read minus opening read for each account. - When a meter has both an estimated and an actual read on the same date, use the actual read. An estimated read with no actual read for that date stands. - Meters have 5 dials and roll over from 99999 to 00000. A closing read below the opening read means the meter rolled over once. - If a meter was exchanged during the period, consumption = (old meter's final reading minus its opening read) + (new meter's closing read minus its initial reading). - Energy charge: the first `tier1_kwh` kWh at `tier1_rate`, the rest at `tier2_rate`. - Bill = energy charge + standing charge for 30 days, plus VAT on the whole. - Round each bill to cents half-up only at the end; the grand total is the sum of the rounded bills. Write `out/bills.json`: `{"kwh": {"<account_id>": <kWh>}, "bill_total": {"<account_id>": <amount>}, "grand_total": <amount>}`. ## 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.

Produce tiered electricity bills for 12-18 accounts from 30-50 shuffled reads. Some closing reads exist both as an estimate and as an actual, two meters roll over past 99999, and one account had its meter exchanged mid-month, so its consumption spans two meters. Keeping the estimate, missing the rollover, or subtracting across meters each gives a wrong kWh figure and bill. 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: consumption rollover_and_exchange bill_amounts grand_total

Setup notes: Batch 20 case v03-meter-reads-billing (offline, synthetic inputs, seed 119413749). 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 1.33 (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: $0.005244. Score: 2/4. 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: $0.0052
Wall time: 22s
Human step-ins: 0
Turns: 4

Model usage
Model	Input tok	Output tok	Cost
AClaude Haiku 5.5anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on	86,246	4,121	$0.0052

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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.
It counts as a success only if it meets every success criterion: consumption rollover_and_exchange bill_amounts grand_total
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Output throughput is plausible : passed
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Evidence log

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