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On-time delivery by hub, and why the late ones were late

delivery-performance · 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.

I need August's on-time delivery by hub and a breakdown of why the late ones were late. Save it as delivery.xlsx with live formulas. Dispatch's notes explain how the stop file reads.

Workspace

  • deliveries_august_2026.csv
  • dispatch_notes.txt

Expected deliverables

  • delivery.xlsx

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
delivery.xlsx existsfile_existsyes0
live formulasxlsx_has_formulasyes0
no error cellsxlsx_no_errorsyes2
Portland on timexlsx_value_presentyes2
Denver shipments deliveredxlsx_value_presentyes2
weather delaysxlsx_value_presentyes2
total shipments deliveredxlsx_value_presentyes0
on-time rates per hubcustomyes2

Recorded results, complete desk comparison

pass pass, frozen scorer only fail timed out
SystemRepetitionsFrozen / 3Raw / 3Median minutesMean cost (USD)
Proto / DeepSeek V4.1 Flash3311.00.1224
Codex / GPT-5.6 sol117.40.7742

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