Claude Opus 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) on Write one conveyor control program in five IEC 61131-3 languages and pass a simulated plant test
AClaude Opus 5.5default · thinking on · Claude Code 2.1.299 (headless -p) · cloud · 2026-10-21 · by @bobsiopener
- Estimated cost
- $0.73
- Wall time
- 11m
- Human step-ins
- 0
- Outcome
- Pass
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# Write one conveyor control program in five IEC 61131-3 languages `spec.json` gives the I/O names and addresses, the batch size, the jam time and how each input is wired. Write the same control program five times, once per language, each as a PROGRAM named `conveyor` that declares the I/O with exactly the addresses in `spec.json`: - Ladder Diagram (LD): `out/conveyor_ld.xml` - Function Block Diagram (FBD): `out/conveyor_fbd.xml` - Structured Text (ST): `out/conveyor.st` - Instruction List (IL): `out/conveyor.il` - Sequential Function Chart (SFC, textual form): `out/conveyor_sfc.st` LD and FBD are PLCopen TC6 XML 2.01 projects (`<project xmlns="http://www.plcopen.org/xml/tc6_0201">`) whose program body is `<LD>` or `<FBD>` respectively; ST, IL and SFC are plain IEC text files. Standard function blocks (R_TRIG, TON, CTU, ...) are allowed in every language. A CONFIGURATION is optional; without one, the bench runs `conveyor` in a 10 ms cyclic task. ## Behaviour - The motor runs once START is pressed and keeps running (latched) until something stops it. - It stops when STOP is pressed, when the emergency-stop chain opens, on a fault, or when the batch is done. Check the wiring in `spec.json`: STOP and the emergency-stop chain are normally closed. - Count a box each time the exit photo-eye goes from clear to blocked while the motor is running. When the count reaches the batch size, stop the motor and light the batch-done lamp. The count carries over when the belt is stopped and restarted; only RESET clears it (and the lamp). - Jam: if the photo-eye stays blocked for the jam time or longer while the motor runs, latch a fault. An open emergency-stop chain also latches the fault. The fault lamp shows the fault; the batch-done lamp is off while there is a fault. - RESET clears a fault only when the emergency-stop chain is healthy and the photo-eye is clear. While a fault or the batch-done state is active, START does nothing. ## Compiler notes (matiec) - Declare the located I/O in its own `VAR ... END_VAR` block, separate from internal variables. - In IL, a formal `CAL` puts each parameter on its own line: `CAL tmr(` / `IN := x,` / `PT := t` / `)`. `R` and `S` are IL operators, so set an instance's `R` or `S` input with `LD ...` / `ST inst.R` before `CAL inst`. Pass TIME values to a `CAL` through a variable, not as a literal. - In SFC, an action named after a BOOL variable (`STEP Run: MOTOR(N); END_STEP`) drives that variable only while the step is active. ## Test bench `python3 bin/plcsim.py <st|il|sfc|ld|fbd> <file> [scenario.txt]` compiles your file with the open-source matiec compiler (LD/FBD are first converted to ST with the Beremiz PLCopen generator), runs it scan by scan and prints `tick MOTOR FAULT BATCH_DONE` at the scenario's sample ticks. `scenario-sample.txt` and `scenario-sample-expected.txt` are a worked example. Scoring runs each file on a different, hidden scenario of the same kind and compares the outputs at settled sample ticks (never within 100 ms of a change), so one-scan timing differences between languages don't matter. A file that is missing, doesn't compile, or isn't written in its language fails its check. ## 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.
Implement the same conveyor logic (latched start, normally-closed stop and safety chain, box counting to a batch size that survives a stop and restart, a jam timer, and a reset that only works when it is safe) in Ladder Diagram, Function Block Diagram, Structured Text, Instruction List and Sequential Function Chart. Each file is compiled with the open-source matiec compiler (graphical languages via the Beremiz PLCopen generator) and run scan by scan against a hidden plant scenario; one check per language. 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: ld fbd st il sfc
Setup notes: Batch 21 case w05-conveyor-five-plc-languages (offline, synthetic inputs, seed 162461584). 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 0.47 (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-opus-5.5: $0.73472. 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
- $0.73
- Wall time
- 11m
- Human step-ins
- 0
- Turns
- 16
| Model | Input tok | Output tok | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| AClaude Opus 5.5anthropic/claude-opus-5.5effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on | 573,195 | 14,992 | $0.73 |
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- Use the use case prompt on the use case page.
- 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. - It counts as a success only if it meets every success criterion: ld fbd st il sfc
- 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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- 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
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"result": "I wrote the five `conveyor` programs, and each one compiles on the bench and gives exactly `scenario-sample-expected.txt` on the sample scenario. I also ran all five on a random scenario of 300 input rows, and their outputs were identical to each other. That only shows they agree; there was no expected answer to check it against.\n\n**Files in `out/`:**\n- `conveyor_ld.xml` \u2014 Ladder Diagram (PLCopen XML)\n- `conveyor_fbd.xml` \u2014 Function Block Diagram (PLCopen XML)\n- `conveyor.st` \u2014 Structured Text\n- `conveyor.il` \u2014 Instruction List\n- `conveyor_sfc.st` \u2014 Sequential Function Chart\n\n**How the logic works (the same in every language):**\n- All of them use the I/O names and addresses from `spec.json`, declared in their own `VAR` block apart from the internal variables.\n- **Jam:** a `TON` timer runs while the eye is blocked and the motor is on, with a 4000 ms limit.\n- **Fault:** latched on by a jam or an open emergency-stop chain. RESET clears it only when the chain is healthy and the eye is clear; if both happen in the same scan, the reset wins.\n- **Box count:** an `R_TRIG` on the eye, combined with the motor being on, drives a `CTU` counter with a target of 3. Its output is the batch-done state.\n- **Motor:** `(PB_START OR MOTOR) AND StopBtn AND ESTOP_OK AND NOT Fault AND NOT Done`. That gives the latch and the normally-closed STOP and emergency-stop inputs. It also makes START do nothing while there is a fault or the batch is done.\n- **Lamps:** `LAMP_FAULT` shows the fault. `BatchLight` is batch-done AND NOT fault.\n- **SFC:** it has two steps, `Idle` and `Run`. `MOTOR(N)` is only on `Run`, and a supervision action that handles fault, count and lamps is active in both steps.\n\n**One judgement call:** RESET clears the box count and batch-done every time it is pressed, even when it can't clear a fault. That is my reading of \"only RESET clears it\". The sample doesn't settle this case either way. If the hidden scenario expects the count to clear only when the fault can also be reset, I'd lose points there.\n\nI built the LD and FBD files with a small generator script, `/tmp/gen_opus/gen.py`, which I kept outside `out/` as the task requires.",
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