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August sales commissions with refund recoveries

commission-calculation · timeout 1800 s · source

The ask

Sent verbatim as the prompt. The agent works in a copy of the workspace below and sees nothing else.

Work out August commissions for the team sales reps and save them as commissions.xlsx. Everything you need is in the folder - the plan, July's statement, the CRM export, the refunds and Marcus's emails.

Workspace

  • commission_statement_2026-07.xlsx
  • crm_opportunities_2026-08.csv
  • email_from_marcus.txt
  • refunds_processed_august.csv
  • team_sales_commission_plan_2026.pdf

Expected deliverables

  • commissions.xlsx

Checks

The task passes only when every required check passes. Reference answers, tolerances, and the planted traps are in the repository, not here.

CheckTypeRequiredFailed (frozen) / 6
live formulasxlsx_has_formulasyes0
no error cellsxlsx_no_errorsyes0
Osei commission (graduated bands, split deals halved)xlsx_value_presentyes0
Brooks net payout (July deal recovered at 8%)xlsx_value_presentyes0
Kim net payout (August deal recovered at 3%)xlsx_value_presentyes0
Haddad net payout (senior plan, July deal at the standard rate)xlsx_value_presentyes0
total net payoutxlsx_value_presentyes1

Recorded results, complete desk comparison

pass pass, frozen scorer only fail timed out
SystemRepetitionsFrozen / 3Raw / 3Median minutesMean cost (USD)
Proto / DeepSeek V4.1 Flash334.70.0532
Codex / GPT-5.6 sol227.40.7442

Per-attempt check verdicts, raw and frozen verdicts, usage, receipt and artifact hashes for this task are in results/latest/attempts.jsonl under "task": "commission-calculation".