Tasks · desk · Bookkeeping
August cash drawer variance by day
cash-drawer-variance · timeout 1200 s · source
The ask
Sent verbatim as the prompt. The agent works in a copy of the workspace below and sees nothing else.
Marcus wants to see where cash is going missing. Compare August's close-of-day reports with the bank deposits, day by day, following his note. Save it as drawer_variance.csv.
Workspace
- note_from_marcus.txt
- shearline_pos_close_of_day_2026-08.csv
- summit_cu_checking_2026-08-01_to_2026-09-04.csv
Expected deliverables
- drawer_variance.csv
Checks
The task passes only when every required check passes. Reference answers, tolerances, and the planted traps are in the repository, not here.
| Check | Type | Required | Failed (frozen) / 6 |
|---|---|---|---|
| requested columns | csv_columns | yes | 0 |
| every open day | csv_set_equal | yes | 0 |
| row count | csv_row_count | yes | 0 |
| expected deposit per day | csv_values_match | yes | 0 |
| deposited per day | csv_values_match | yes | 0 |
| variance per day | csv_values_match | yes | 0 |
Recorded results, complete desk comparison
pass pass, frozen scorer only fail timed out
| System | Repetitions | Frozen / 3 | Raw / 3 | Median minutes | Mean cost (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proto / DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | 3 | 3 | 3.7 | 0.0433 | |
| Codex / GPT-5.6 sol | 3 | 3 | 1.6 | 0.2010 |
Per-attempt check verdicts, raw and frozen verdicts, usage, receipt and artifact hashes for this task are in results/latest/attempts.jsonl under "task": "cash-drawer-variance".