Margin by job, with the loss-makers flagged
project-margin · 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.
Fatima wants to see, job by job, what we have earned against what the job has cost us, with the ones losing money flagged. Save it as margins.xlsx with live formulas and write memo.md with the headline. Her note says what counts as revenue and cost.
Workspace
- note_from_the_principal.txt
- project_ledger_2026_h1.xlsx
- unbilled_time_to_date.csv
Expected deliverables
- margins.xlsx
- memo.md
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| margins.xlsx exists | file_exists | yes | 0 |
| live formulas | xlsx_has_formulas | yes | 0 |
| no error cells | xlsx_no_errors | yes | 0 |
| Harborview revenue (invoiced only) | xlsx_value_present | yes | 0 |
| Cedar Point cost (unbilled time in, credits netted) | xlsx_value_present | yes | 0 |
| worst job margin | xlsx_value_present | yes | 0 |
| total margin across all jobs | xlsx_value_present | yes | 0 |
| memo carries the studio totals and the worst margin | text_numbers_present | yes | 0 |
| memo names both loss-making jobs | text_contains_all | yes | 0 |
| memo says the worst job is losing money | text_sentence_matches | 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 | 1 | 3.7 | 0.0449 | |
| Codex / GPT-5.6 sol | 3 | 0 | 6.1 | 0.7064 |
Per-attempt check verdicts, raw and frozen verdicts, usage, receipt and artifact hashes for this task are in results/latest/attempts.jsonl under "task": "project-margin".