Claude Sonnet 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) on Split a shared house's tiered gas and electricity bills by days in the house, with unit conversion and leftover pennies

AClaude Sonnet 5.5default · thinking on · Claude Code 2.1.299 (headless -p) · cloud · 2026-10-23 · by @bobsiopener

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Estimated cost: $0.05
Wall time: 15s
Human step-ins: 0
Outcome: Pass

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# Split a shared house's energy bills between housemates who came and went Inputs: `bills.csv` (bill_id, fuel, from, to, opening_read, closing_read), `housemates.csv` (name, move_in, move_out), `tariff.json` and `landlord-note.txt`. Amounts are in pounds. `tariff.json` and these rules are the record; where the landlord's note disagrees, the rules win. Rules: - A bill covers from to to, both days included. Units used = closing_read - opening_read; gas meters read in cubic metres, so gas kWh = units x volume_correction x calorific_value / kwh_divisor. - Each bill's first low_rate_kwh_per_day x (days in the bill) kWh are charged at low_rate and the rest at high_rate; add standing_per_day for every day; then add vat_pct percent. The bill total is rounded half-up to 0.01. - A housemate is in the house from move_in to move_out, both days included (blank move_out means still living there). Each bill total is split in proportion to each housemate's days in the house during that bill. - Each share is rounded half-up to 0.01; any penny difference between the shares and the bill total goes to the housemate with the most days in that bill (ties: first name alphabetically). - Write `out/split.json`: `{"kwh": {"<bill_id>": <kWh, 2 decimals>, ...}, "bill_totals": {"<bill_id>": <total>, ...}, "per_bill_shares": {"<bill_id>": {"<name>": <share>, ...}, ...}, "shares": {"<name>": <sum of their shares>, ...}}`. Per-bill shares list only housemates with at least one day in that bill; `shares` lists every housemate. ## 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 housemate's share of three months of gas and electricity bills. Gas meters read in cubic metres and need converting to kWh, the cheaper-rate allowance scales with each bill's length, standing charges and VAT are added, housemates moved in and out mid-bill with both days counted (one moved out on a bill's last day), and rounded shares must add back to the bill with the leftover penny going to a set person. A landlord's note gets the conversion, allowance, move-out and penny rules wrong. 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: gas_kwh tiers_and_vat occupancy_days pennies totals

Setup notes: Batch 31 case ta03-shared-house-energy-split (offline, synthetic inputs, seed 97738792). 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: $0.054532. 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.

Estimated cost List-price estimate; not actually billed.

Metrics

Estimated cost: $0.05
Wall time: 15s
Human step-ins: 0
Turns: 3

Model usage
Model	Input tok	Output tok	Cost
AClaude Sonnet 5.5anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on	58,624	1,660	$0.05

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Same setup: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (anthropic/claude-sonnet-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: gas_kwh tiers_and_vat occupancy_days pennies totals
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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 written `out/split.json`. I ran the script once and haven't checked the figures independently.\n\nThe landlord's note disagrees with the rules in two places, and I followed the rules:\n- **Gas units:** I converted gas from cubic metres to kWh with the volume correction, calorific value and divisor from `tariff.json`, not treating the meter as already in kWh.\n- **Cheap-rate allowance:** I used the daily allowance times the days in each bill, not a flat 30 days.\n- **Move-out day:** Eli's move-out day counts as a day in the house, not a free day as the note says.\n- **Odd pennies:** I assigned them by the rounding rule instead of ignoring them.\n\n| Bill | kWh | Total (\u00a3) |\n|---|---|---|\n| ELEC-1 | 197.00 | 54.00 |\n| GAS-1 | 828.76 | 58.42 |\n| ELEC-2 | 383.00 | 105.67 |\n| GAS-2 | 1447.58 | 101.93 |\n| ELEC-3 | 158.00 | 46.22 |\n| GAS-3 | 762.46 | 54.45 |\n\n| Housemate | Share (\u00a3) |\n|---|---|\n| Fay | 151.19 |\n| Eli | 117.62 |\n| Ade | 118.32 |\n| Dot | 33.56 |\n\nIn ELEC-2, Fay, Eli and Ade each have 30 days. The extra penny therefore went to Ade, first alphabetically.",
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