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Stock valued at cost by department for the accountant

inventory-valuation · 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.

Frank needs our stock valued at cost by department as of 30 September for the accountant. Save it as valuation.xlsx with live formulas - his note explains the counts and the costs.

Workspace

  • note_from_frank.txt
  • purchasing_receipts_2026.xlsx
  • stock_on_hand_2026-09-30.csv

Expected deliverables

  • valuation.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
valuation.xlsx existsfile_existsyes0
live formulasxlsx_has_formulasyes0
no error cellsxlsx_no_errorsyes0
Trees value (latest receipt cost)xlsx_value_presentyes0
Shrubs value (negative counts at zero)xlsx_value_presentyes0
Pots & Planters value (loosely typed SKUs)xlsx_value_presentyes0
total stock valuexlsx_value_presentyes0
items without a cost are flaggedcustomyes0

Recorded results, complete desk comparison

pass pass, frozen scorer only fail timed out
SystemRepetitionsFrozen / 3Raw / 3Median minutesMean cost (USD)
Proto / DeepSeek V4.1 Flash334.70.0579
Codex / GPT-5.6 sol337.80.6952

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