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Claude Opus 5.5 (effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on) on Classify 12 faulty sensors (frozen/°F/spike/gap/drift) with fault start hours

AClaude Opus 5.5default · thinking on · Claude Code 2.1.299 (headless -p) · cloud · 2026-10-16 · by @bobsiopener

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Estimated cost
$0.19
Wall time
38s
Human step-ins
0
Outcome
Pass

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# Task: find faulty sensors `readings.csv` has hourly temperature readings (sensor_id, hour 0–167, temp_c) from 40 indoor sensors over one week. Normal sensors follow a daily cycle around 18–24 °C with small noise. Some sensors developed exactly one fault each, starting at some hour. Fault types: `frozen` (value stops changing), `unit_fahrenheit` (starts reporting °F), `spike` (a single absurd reading), `offline_gap` (a run of missing hours), `drift` (steady upward drift). Write `faults.json`: `{"S07": {"type": "drift", "start_hour": 55}, ...}` listing ONLY faulty sensors. No network.

Find the faulty sensors among 40 indoor temperature sensors over one week of hourly readings, and name each fault type and the hour it started. Faults include frozen values, a switch to Fahrenheit, single spikes, offline gaps and slow drift, and flagging a healthy but noisy sensor counts against the answer. 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. Fault type correct for at least 11 of the 12 faulty sensors. 2. Zero false positives: no healthy sensor may appear in faults.json. 3. start_hour (integer) within ±3 hours of the true start for at least 9 sensors (±8 hours allowed for drift faults).

Setup notes: Use Case Scout batch 3 case c04-sensor-anomalies (offline fixture). Prepared with batch3/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/faults.json KEYDIR/key.json`. Tools: Read/Write/Edit/Glob/Grep/Bash, web disabled. Single run, no retries. Claude Code's own reported cost for claude-opus-5.5: $0.193144. Score: pass. 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.

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Metrics

Estimated cost
$0.19
Wall time
38s
Human step-ins
0
Turns
6
Model usage
ModelInput tokOutput tokCost
AClaude Opus 5.5anthropic/claude-opus-5.5effort default (no --effort flag) · thinking on126,5143,709$0.19

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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. Fault type correct for at least 11 of the 12 faulty sensors. 2. Zero false positives: no healthy sensor may appear in faults.json. 3. start_hour (integer) within ±3 hours of the true start for at least 9 sensors (±8 hours allowed for drift faults).
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  "result": "I found 12 faulty sensors and wrote them to `faults.json`, which parses as valid JSON. The other 28 sensors show no anomalies.\n\n| Sensor | Fault | Start hour | What gives it away |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| S01 | spike | 115 | one reading of \u221219.5 \u00b0C |\n| S09 | spike | 113 | one reading of \u221223.0 \u00b0C |\n| S04 | frozen | 117 | stuck at 15.92 for the remaining 51 hours |\n| S06 | frozen | 67 | stuck at 15.05 for 101 hours |\n| S07 | frozen | 41 | stuck at 19.21 for 127 hours |\n| S22 | unit_fahrenheit | 47 | jumps from about 17.7 to 66 |\n| S26 | unit_fahrenheit | 69 | jumps from about 21.9 to 70 |\n| S38 | unit_fahrenheit | 116 | jumps from about 20.5 to 69 |\n| S34 | offline_gap | 36 | hours 36\u201345 missing |\n| S39 | offline_gap | 66 | hours 66\u201375 missing |\n| S31 | drift | 62 | rises about 0.077 \u00b0C per hour from there |\n| S40 | drift | 58 | rises about 0.080 \u00b0C per hour from there |\n\nTwo of the start hours involve a judgement call:\n\n- **Frozen sensors:** I used the first hour that shows the stuck value. If the grader counts the first *repeated* reading as the start instead, each frozen start would be one hour later (S04 \u2192 118, S06 \u2192 68, S07 \u2192 42).\n- **Drift sensors:** there's no sharp jump to point to, so I estimated the start by comparing each sensor to its own daily pattern from the first two days and fitting a line to the extra rise. These two hours could be off by a few hours.",
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