Tasks · desk · Spreadsheet
First-half budget vs actual, line by line
budget-vs-actual · 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.
The owners want to see how January to June went against the budget, line by line. Put it together as variance.xlsx with live formulas from the budget file and the GL export - Dale's email says how the budget is spread and how he wants the variances shown.
Workspace
- budget_FY2026_approved.xlsx
- email_from_dale.txt
- gl_detail_2026-01-01_to_2026-07-10.csv
Expected deliverables
- variance.xlsx
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| variance.xlsx exists | file_exists | yes | 0 |
| live formulas | xlsx_has_formulas | yes | 0 |
| no error cells | xlsx_no_errors | yes | 0 |
| slip rentals budget Jan-Jun (seasonal, 35%) | xlsx_value_present | yes | 0 |
| slip rentals actual (transient sub-account, credits, no July) | xlsx_value_present | yes | 0 |
| winter storage variance (seasonal income) | xlsx_value_present | yes | 0 |
| dock staff variance (seasonal cost, favourable-positive) | xlsx_value_present | yes | 0 |
| fuel variance (over budget is negative) | xlsx_value_present | yes | 0 |
| total expenses actual | xlsx_value_present | 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 | 13.0 | 0.1140 | |
| Codex / GPT-5.6 sol | 3 | 3 | 5.8 | 0.7442 |
Per-attempt check verdicts, raw and frozen verdicts, usage, receipt and artifact hashes for this task are in results/latest/attempts.jsonl under "task": "budget-vs-actual".