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Tasks·desk·Bookkeeping

Payables aging by vendor for the line of credit review

ap-aging·time budget 1200 s·source

The request

The task request supplied to the adapter, alongside the workspace below. Runtime instructions, authorized tools and skills also affect the system. Containerized runs withhold host-side references; local mode is not an isolation boundary.

The bank wants our accounts payable aging as of August 31. Wes's note says how to do it and the bills, vendor list and credits are in the folder. Save the aging as ap_aging.xlsx and the write-up as memo.md.

Workspace

  • bills_export_2026-08-31.csv
  • note_from_wes.txt
  • vendor_credits_open.csv
  • vendor_list.xlsx

Expected deliverables

  • ap_aging.xlsx
  • memo.md

Recorded acceptance checks

The table uses check names and outcomes from the frozen campaign ledger. Acceptance requires all required predicates to pass; a predicate may itself contain a tolerance or coverage threshold. Its scope is part of the measurement contract.

Recorded checkTypeRequiredFailed / observed
ap_aging.xlsx existsfile_existsyes0 / 6
live formulasxlsx_has_formulasyes0 / 6
no error cellsxlsx_no_errorsyes1 / 6
total payablesxlsx_value_presentyes0 / 6
current bucket totalxlsx_value_presentyes1 / 6
1-30 bucket totalxlsx_value_presentyes2 / 6
31-60 bucket totalxlsx_value_presentyes2 / 6
Northline Freight totalxlsx_value_presentyes1 / 6
Summit Gas totalxlsx_value_presentyes1 / 6
Hopkins Family Pears totalxlsx_value_presentyes1 / 6
memo carries total and past duetext_numbers_presentyes0 / 6
memo names the most overdue billtext_sentence_matchesyes2 / 6
Current task declaration (12 checks)

From task.yaml. Original runner grading and frozen retrospective scoring are separate. Read the frozen source for the rules behind the reported results.

  • ap_aging.xlsx exists — file_exists, required
  • live formulas — xlsx_has_formulas, required
  • no error cells — xlsx_no_errors, required
  • total payables — xlsx_value_present, required
  • current bucket total — xlsx_value_present, required
  • 1-30 bucket total — xlsx_value_present, required
  • 31-60 bucket total — xlsx_value_present, required
  • Northline Freight total — xlsx_value_present, required
  • Summit Gas total — xlsx_value_present, required
  • Hopkins Family Pears total — xlsx_value_present, required
  • memo carries total and past due — text_numbers_present, required
  • memo names the most overdue bill — text_sentence_matches, required

Recorded results, desk release

pass pass, frozen scorer only fail timed out
SystemRepetitionsFrozen / 3Original / 3Median minutesMean model estimate (USD)
Proto / DeepSeek V4.1 Flash119.20.1229
Codex / GPT-5.6 sol115.50.6006

These are repeated executions on the released fixture, not independent new business cases. Cost is captured model usage priced under the recorded assumptions, excluding infrastructure and human review. Per-attempt check verdicts, raw and frozen verdicts, usage, receipt and artifact hashes for this task are in results/latest/attempts.jsonl under "task": "ap-aging".

Recorded results, desk comparison, 28 September 2026

SystemRepetitionsFrozen / 3Original / 3Median minutes
Proto / GPT-6 sol333.5
Codex / GPT-6 sol333.2
Proto / DeepSeek V4.1 Flash001.5

A separate campaign under the same frozen scorer, not pooled with the release. Conditions and data.