Tasks · desk · Bookkeeping
Journal entry for the 4 September payroll
payroll-journal-entry · 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.
Grace needs the journal entry for today's payroll so she can import it. The register and our chart of accounts are in the folder, and her email explains how she books it. Save it as payroll_je.csv.
Workspace
- chart_of_accounts.csv
- email_from_grace.txt
- payroll_register_2026-09-04.xlsx
Expected deliverables
- payroll_je.csv
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| import columns | csv_columns | yes | 0 |
| accounts used | csv_set_equal | yes | 0 |
| one line per account | csv_row_count | yes | 0 |
| account amounts | custom | yes | 0 |
| debits equal credits | custom | 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 | 1.0 | 0.0204 | |
| Codex / GPT-5.6 sol | 3 | 3 | 1.5 | 0.2593 |
Per-attempt check verdicts, raw and frozen verdicts, usage, receipt and artifact hashes for this task are in results/latest/attempts.jsonl under "task": "payroll-journal-entry".