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Turn the refunds email thread into a counter procedure

sop-from-thread·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.

Dorothy keeps mixing up how refunds work. Please turn the email thread into one written procedure we can print for the register and save it as procedure.md.

Workspace

  • email_thread_refunds.txt
  • return_policy_posted.pdf

Expected deliverables

  • procedure.md

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
approval thresholdtext_sentence_matchesyes0 / 6
refund windowtext_sentence_matchesyes0 / 6
store credit windowtext_sentence_matchesyes0 / 6
cash refundstext_sentence_matchesyes0 / 6
refunds logged in the sheettext_sentence_matchesyes0 / 6
steps in the right ordercustomyes2 / 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.

  • approval threshold — text_sentence_matches, required
  • refund window — text_sentence_matches, required
  • store credit window — text_sentence_matches, required
  • cash refunds — text_sentence_matches, required
  • refunds logged in the sheet — text_sentence_matches, required
  • steps in the right order — custom, required

Recorded results, desk release

This is one of the 7 tasks with a task-specific equivalence grader in the frozen scorer, intended to accept equivalent representations. Whether an equivalence rule matches the business requirement remains open to review. Original and frozen verdicts can differ; see what the frozen scorer changed.

pass pass, frozen scorer only fail timed out
SystemRepetitionsFrozen / 3Original / 3Median minutesMean model estimate (USD)
Proto / DeepSeek V4.1 Flash210.60.0090
Codex / GPT-5.6 sol221.30.1958

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": "sop-from-thread".

Recorded results, desk comparison, 28 September 2026

SystemRepetitionsFrozen / 3Original / 3Median minutes
Proto / GPT-6 sol001.2
Codex / GPT-6 sol102.8
Proto / DeepSeek V4.1 Flash220.4

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