Q2 expenses by department against budget
dept-expense-report · 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.
Hiroshi wants Q2 expenses by department, month by month, and a note on who went over budget. Build it as dept_expenses.xlsx with live formulas and write the memo as memo.md. His note and the booth thread are in the folder with the export.
Workspace
- budget_note_from_hiroshi.txt
- cost_centers.xlsx
- email_thread_nab_booth.txt
- expense_lines_2026-04-01_to_2026-06-30.csv
Expected deliverables
- dept_expenses.xlsx
- memo.md
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| dept_expenses.xlsx exists | file_exists | yes | 0 |
| live formulas | xlsx_has_formulas | yes | 0 |
| no error cells | xlsx_no_errors | yes | 0 |
| Sales Q2 total (booth moved in) | xlsx_value_present | yes | 0 |
| Marketing Q2 total (booth moved out) | xlsx_value_present | yes | 0 |
| Production Q2 total (blank cost centers resolved) | xlsx_value_present | yes | 0 |
| total Q2 spend | xlsx_value_present | yes | 0 |
| memo says Sales is over budget | text_sentence_matches | yes | 1 |
| memo says Production is over budget | text_sentence_matches | yes | 1 |
| memo carries both overrun amounts | text_numbers_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 | 2 | 1 | 4.5 | 0.0554 | |
| Codex / GPT-5.6 sol | 2 | 2 | 7.9 | 0.7331 |
Per-attempt check verdicts, raw and frozen verdicts, usage, receipt and artifact hashes for this task are in results/latest/attempts.jsonl under "task": "dept-expense-report".