Tasks · desk · Bookkeeping
First-half FIFO cost of goods sold
fifo-cogs · 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.
Mensah needs our cost of goods sold for January to June on FIFO for the mid-year review. His email says how he wants it. Save it as cogs.xlsx.
Workspace
- email_from_cpa_cogs.txt
- fifo_layers_2025-12-31.xlsx
- receiving_log_2026.xlsx
- supplier_price_list_2026-07.csv
- till_item_sales_2026-01-01_to_2026-06-30.csv
Expected deliverables
- cogs.xlsx
This task also has a task-specific grader (check.py).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| live formulas | xlsx_has_formulas | yes | 1 |
| no formula errors | xlsx_no_errors | yes | 2 |
| cost of goods sold, one line per month | custom | yes | 1 |
| total COGS | xlsx_value_present | yes | 1 |
| dog food COGS | xlsx_value_present | yes | 1 |
| cat food COGS | xlsx_value_present | yes | 1 |
| litter COGS | xlsx_value_present | yes | 1 |
| tug toy COGS | xlsx_value_present | yes | 1 |
| dog food on hand at June 30 | xlsx_value_present | yes | 1 |
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 | 2 | 2 | 7.7 | 0.1122 | |
| Codex / GPT-5.6 sol | 2 | 2 | 12.8 | 1.3372 |
Per-attempt check verdicts, raw and frozen verdicts, usage, receipt and artifact hashes for this task are in results/latest/attempts.jsonl under "task": "fifo-cogs".