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August menu items ranked by sales and margin

menu-item-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'm redoing the menu. Using the August POS export and Rosa's cost sheet, show me every item ranked by how many we sold and by margin - my note has how to read the export. Save it as menu_performance.xlsx.

Workspace

  • note_from_marcus.txt
  • pos_item_details_2026-07.csv
  • pos_item_details_2026-08.csv
  • recipe_costs.xlsx

Expected deliverables

  • menu_performance.xlsx

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
menu_performance.xlsx existsfile_existsyes0
no formula errorsxlsx_no_errorsyes0
Smashed Avocado Toast quantityxlsx_value_presentyes1
Cold Brew quantityxlsx_value_presentyes1
Latte marginxlsx_value_presentyes1
Breakfast Sandwich marginxlsx_value_presentyes1
total marginxlsx_value_presentyes1

Recorded results, complete desk comparison

pass pass, frozen scorer only fail timed out
SystemRepetitionsFrozen / 3Raw / 3Median minutesMean cost (USD)
Proto / DeepSeek V4.1 Flash223.60.0473
Codex / GPT-5.6 sol335.50.6322

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-item-performance".