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First-half purchasing savings by category

procurement-savings·time budget 1200 s·source

The request

The task request supplied to the adapter, alongside the workspace below. Runtime instructions, authorized tools and skills also affect the system. Containerized runs withhold host-side references; local mode is not an isolation boundary.

The owners want to know what Jess's negotiating saved us in the first half, by category. Her quote log and the PO export are in the folder, and Ruth's email says how finance counts it. Save it as savings.xlsx with live formulas.

Workspace

  • email_from_ruth_finance.txt
  • po_export_2026-01-01_2026-06-30.csv
  • supplier_quotes_log_2026.xlsx

Expected deliverables

  • savings.xlsx

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
savings.xlsx existsfile_existsyes0 / 6
live formulasxlsx_has_formulasyes0 / 6
no formula errorsxlsx_no_errorsyes0 / 6
Hops savingsxlsx_value_presentyes0 / 6
Malt savingsxlsx_value_presentyes0 / 6
Packaging savingsxlsx_value_presentyes0 / 6
Cleaning savingsxlsx_value_presentyes0 / 6
total savingsxlsx_value_presentyes0 / 6
Current task declaration (8 checks)

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

  • savings.xlsx exists — file_exists, required
  • live formulas — xlsx_has_formulas, required
  • no formula errors — xlsx_no_errors, required
  • Hops savings — xlsx_value_present, required
  • Malt savings — xlsx_value_present, required
  • Packaging savings — xlsx_value_present, required
  • Cleaning savings — xlsx_value_present, required
  • total savings — xlsx_value_present, required

Recorded results, desk release

pass pass, frozen scorer only fail timed out
SystemRepetitionsFrozen / 3Original / 3Median minutesMean model estimate (USD)
Proto / DeepSeek V4.1 Flash331.90.0385
Codex / GPT-5.6 sol335.50.6084

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": "procurement-savings".

Recorded results, desk comparison, 28 September 2026

SystemRepetitionsFrozen / 3Original / 3Median minutes
Proto / GPT-6 sol332.4
Codex / GPT-6 sol333.4
Proto / DeepSeek V4.1 Flash331.7

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