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Cost out the fall menu, plate by plate

menu-cost-sheet·time budget 1200 s·source

The request

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Can you cost out every dish on the fall menu from Dana's recipe cards and the Harbor price sheet, so I can see what each plate costs us and what we keep? Save it as menu_costs.xlsx with the math as live formulas. Dana left a note about how the kitchen counts it.

Workspace

  • harbor_price_sheet_2026-06.csv
  • harbor_price_sheet_2026-09.csv
  • note_from_dana.txt
  • recipe_cards_fall_2026.xlsx

Expected deliverables

  • menu_costs.xlsx

This task also has a task-specific grader (check.py).

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
live formulasxlsx_has_formulasyes0 / 6
no error cellsxlsx_no_errorsyes0 / 6
Smash Burger plate costxlsx_value_presentyes0 / 6
Seared Salmon plate costxlsx_value_presentyes0 / 6
Mushroom Risotto plate costxlsx_value_presentyes0 / 6
plate cost and margin, every dishcustomyes0 / 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.

  • live formulas — xlsx_has_formulas, required
  • no error cells — xlsx_no_errors, required
  • Smash Burger plate cost — xlsx_value_present, required
  • Seared Salmon plate cost — xlsx_value_present, required
  • Mushroom Risotto plate cost — xlsx_value_present, required
  • plate cost and margin, every dish — custom, required

Recorded results, desk release

pass pass, frozen scorer only fail timed out
SystemRepetitionsFrozen / 3Original / 3Median minutesMean model estimate (USD)
Proto / DeepSeek V4.1 Flash334.60.0730
Codex / GPT-5.6 sol336.00.6074

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": "menu-cost-sheet".

Recorded results, desk comparison, 28 September 2026

SystemRepetitionsFrozen / 3Original / 3Median minutes
Proto / GPT-6 sol332.2
Codex / GPT-6 sol333.0
Proto / DeepSeek V4.1 Flash331.5

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