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Customer cohort retention table for the first half

retention-cohorts · 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.

Build me a cohort retention table for January to June this year from the shop order exports, cohort months down the side written like 2026-01. My notes in the folder explain what I mean. Save it as cohorts.xlsx with the counts as formulas.

Workspace

  • cohort_notes.txt
  • orders_2025_jul-dec.csv
  • orders_export_2026-01-01_2026-06-30.csv

Expected deliverables

  • cohorts.xlsx

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
cohorts.xlsx existsfile_existsyes0
live formulasxlsx_has_formulasyes0
no error cellsxlsx_no_errorsyes2
January new customersxlsx_value_presentyes2
February new customersxlsx_value_presentyes2
January cohort month 1xlsx_value_presentyes2
March cohort month 2xlsx_value_presentyes2
total new customersxlsx_value_presentyes0

Recorded results, complete desk comparison

pass pass, frozen scorer only fail timed out
SystemRepetitionsFrozen / 3Raw / 3Median minutesMean cost (USD)
Proto / DeepSeek V4.1 Flash334.90.0597
Codex / GPT-5.6 sol104.70.5101

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