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Merge the purchasing and accounting vendor lists

vendor-contact-merge · 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.

Merge our two vendor lists into one clean list for the new system, one row per vendor. Priya's email has the rules. Save it as vendors.csv.

Workspace

  • email_from_priya.txt
  • vendors_accounting_export.csv
  • vendors_purchasing.xlsx

Expected deliverables

  • vendors.csv

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.

CheckTypeRequiredFailed (frozen) / 6
requested columnscsv_columnsyes0
one row per vendorcsv_set_equalyes0
row countcsv_row_countyes0
payment terms (purchasing wins)csv_values_matchyes0
phone carried overcustomyes0
dropped vendor absenttext_not_containsyes0

Recorded results, complete desk comparison

pass pass, frozen scorer only fail timed out
SystemRepetitionsFrozen / 3Raw / 3Median minutesMean cost (USD)
Proto / DeepSeek V4.1 Flash331.60.0238
Codex / GPT-5.6 sol331.70.3294

Per-attempt check verdicts, raw and frozen verdicts, usage, receipt and artifact hashes for this task are in results/latest/attempts.jsonl under "task": "vendor-contact-merge".