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Categorize card transactions per policy, with thread overrides

expense-categorize·time budget 1200 s·source

The request

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Categorize these card transactions per our policy, the thread has a couple of changes. Output categorized.csv with a category column added, and put REVIEW on anything you can't place.

Workspace

  • expense_policy.md
  • thread.txt
  • transactions.csv

Expected deliverables

  • categorized.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
one output row per transactioncsv_row_countyes0 / 6
source columns kept and category added (txn_id, date, time, description, amount, card_last4, category)csv_columnsyes0 / 6
category per txn_id (thread-override rows, REVIEW rows, and policy-settled furniture and supplies merchants must be right)csv_values_matchyes1 / 6
Current task declaration (3 checks)

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

  • one output row per transaction — csv_row_count, required
  • source columns kept and category added (txn_id, date, time, description, amount, card_last4, category) — csv_columns, required
  • category per txn_id (thread-override rows, REVIEW rows, and policy-settled furniture and supplies merchants must be right) — 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 Flash333.30.0422
Codex / GPT-5.6 sol222.10.3173

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": "expense-categorize".

Recorded results, desk comparison, 28 September 2026

SystemRepetitionsFrozen / 3Original / 3Median minutes
Proto / GPT-6 sol001.5
Codex / GPT-6 sol001.4
Proto / DeepSeek V4.1 Flash221.9

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