Tasks · desk · Spreadsheet
September billable utilization per person
staff-utilization · 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.
Dana wants September's utilization for everyone from the time entries, the HR roster and the leave export. Build utilization.xlsx with live formulas - her note says how the firm counts it.
Workspace
- hr_roster.xlsx
- leave_requests_export.csv
- note_from_dana.txt
- time_entries_september_2026.csv
Expected deliverables
- utilization.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.
| Check | Type | Required | Failed (frozen) / 6 |
|---|---|---|---|
| utilization.xlsx exists | file_exists | yes | 0 |
| live formulas | xlsx_has_formulas | yes | 0 |
| no error cells | xlsx_no_errors | yes | 1 |
| Omar Haddad capacity (part-time, half day) | xlsx_value_present | yes | 1 |
| Kenneth Oduya capacity (leave over the holiday) | xlsx_value_present | yes | 1 |
| Priya Raman capacity (leave from August) | xlsx_value_present | yes | 1 |
| Hannah Brooks capacity (started 14 Sep) | xlsx_value_present | yes | 1 |
| firm capacity total | xlsx_value_present | yes | 1 |
| utilization per person | custom | yes | 4 |
Recorded results, complete desk comparison
pass pass, frozen scorer only fail timed out
| System | Repetitions | Frozen / 3 | Raw / 3 | Median minutes | Mean cost (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proto / DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | 0 | 0 | 5.8 | 0.1030 | |
| Codex / GPT-5.6 sol | 2 | 2 | 5.7 | 0.6323 |
Per-attempt check verdicts, raw and frozen verdicts, usage, receipt and artifact hashes for this task are in results/latest/attempts.jsonl under "task": "staff-utilization".