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Tasks·desk·Bookkeeping

August cash drawer variance by day

cash-drawer-variance·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.

Marcus wants to see where cash is going missing. Compare August's close-of-day reports with the bank deposits, day by day, following his note. Save it as drawer_variance.csv.

Workspace

  • note_from_marcus.txt
  • shearline_pos_close_of_day_2026-08.csv
  • summit_cu_checking_2026-08-01_to_2026-09-04.csv

Expected deliverables

  • drawer_variance.csv

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
requested columnscsv_columnsyes0 / 6
every open daycsv_set_equalyes0 / 6
row countcsv_row_countyes0 / 6
expected deposit per daycsv_values_matchyes0 / 6
deposited per daycsv_values_matchyes0 / 6
variance per daycsv_values_matchyes0 / 6
Current task declaration (6 checks)

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

  • requested columns — csv_columns, required
  • every open day — csv_set_equal, required
  • row count — csv_row_count, required
  • expected deposit per day — csv_values_match, required
  • deposited per day — csv_values_match, required
  • variance per day — csv_values_match, required

Recorded results, desk release

pass pass, frozen scorer only fail timed out
SystemRepetitionsFrozen / 3Original / 3Median minutesMean model estimate (USD)
Proto / DeepSeek V4.1 Flash333.70.0433
Codex / GPT-5.6 sol331.60.2010

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": "cash-drawer-variance".

Recorded results, desk comparison, 28 September 2026

SystemRepetitionsFrozen / 3Original / 3Median minutes
Proto / GPT-6 sol331.8
Codex / GPT-6 sol331.3
Proto / DeepSeek V4.1 Flash332.1

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