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Year-to-date spend by vendor and category

vendor-spend-categories·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 see what we've spent this year with each vendor, grouped into Deb's categories. Build vendor_spend.xlsx from the AP export and keep the totals live - the email thread has the details.

Workspace

  • ap_transactions_2026-01-01_to_2026-08-31.csv
  • email_thread_vendor_spend.txt
  • vendor_categories.xlsx

Expected deliverables

  • vendor_spend.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
vendor_spend.xlsx existsfile_existsyes0 / 6
live formulasxlsx_has_formulasyes0 / 6
no error cellsxlsx_no_errorsyes3 / 6
Sysco Savannah spendxlsx_value_presentyes3 / 6
Coastal Linen spendxlsx_value_presentyes3 / 6
Housekeeping & Amenities totalxlsx_value_presentyes3 / 6
Repairs & Maintenance totalxlsx_value_presentyes3 / 6
total spendxlsx_value_presentyes2 / 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.

  • vendor_spend.xlsx exists — file_exists, required
  • live formulas — xlsx_has_formulas, required
  • no error cells — xlsx_no_errors, required
  • Sysco Savannah spend — xlsx_value_present, required
  • Coastal Linen spend — xlsx_value_present, required
  • Housekeeping & Amenities total — xlsx_value_present, required
  • Repairs & Maintenance total — xlsx_value_present, required
  • total spend — 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 Flash333.30.0490
Codex / GPT-5.6 sol006.00.8756

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": "vendor-spend-categories".

Recorded results, desk comparison, 28 September 2026

SystemRepetitionsFrozen / 3Original / 3Median minutes
Proto / GPT-6 sol334.0
Codex / GPT-6 sol112.8
Proto / DeepSeek V4.1 Flash331.5

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