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Reply to a customer about a cracked skillet

refund-apology-letter · 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.

Laura Rogers emailed us about a cracked skillet and a late delivery. Please draft my reply to her, sticking to our refund policy, and save it as response.md.

Workspace

  • email_customer_complaint.txt
  • orders_export_2026-08-24_to_2026-09-02.csv
  • returns_and_refunds_policy.md
  • support_saved_replies_2025.txt

Expected deliverables

  • response.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
response.md existsfile_existsyes0
correct order numbertext_contains_allyes0
refund amount per policytext_sentence_matchesyes0
processing timetext_sentence_matchesyes0
no promise the policy forbids and no wrong order numbercustomyes4

Recorded results, complete desk comparison

This is one of the 7 tasks with a task-specific equivalence grader in the frozen scorer, which accepts alternative valid representations the original checks rejected. Raw and frozen verdicts can therefore differ here by design; see what the frozen scorer changed.

pass pass, frozen scorer only fail timed out
SystemRepetitionsFrozen / 3Raw / 3Median minutesMean cost (USD)
Proto / DeepSeek V4.1 Flash100.70.0089
Codex / GPT-5.6 sol110.70.1304

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