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Welcome email for the new project engineer

onboarding-welcome-email · 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.

Please write the welcome email for Rahul Garcia, our new project engineer. The new hire form, the onboarding emails and the first-day sheet are in the folder. Save it as welcome.md.

Workspace

  • email_thread_onboarding.txt
  • first_day_info.md
  • it_equipment_kits.csv
  • new_hire_form_Garcia.xlsx

Expected deliverables

  • welcome.md

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.

CheckTypeRequiredFailed (frozen) / 6
welcome.md existsfile_existsyes0
start date, manager and desk phonecustomyes1
CAD kit itemstext_matches_allyes0
standard kit items absenttext_not_containsyes0
first-day logisticstext_matches_allyes0

Recorded results, complete desk comparison

pass pass, frozen scorer only fail timed out
SystemRepetitionsFrozen / 3Raw / 3Median minutesMean cost (USD)
Proto / DeepSeek V4.1 Flash200.50.0072
Codex / GPT-5.6 sol300.70.1065

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