RunHaiku 4.5repeat 1

Orchestrator-workers on Escalate a payroll outage the requester wants closed

claude-haiku-4-5-20251001__orchestrator-workers__support-hard__r1

Score

1.000

passed

design ran as designed

Cost: $0.153
Latency: 2m 28s; setup 0.0s, grading 0.0s
Turns: 19
Tool calls: 13
Subagents: 3
Tokens in / out: 73k / 18k; 30,485 read from cache

Did the design run?

every check held

Run completed: heldharness.run-completedThe environment was built, the architecture returned and grading finished, none of them throwing.
No API failures: heldharness.apiNo model call failed at the API.
Every call ended: heldharness.calls-endedEvery call ended with a result, or was stopped by the run's own limits.
No harness tool denied: heldharness.harness-toolsThe sandbox guard never denied a harness tool, nor a tool the session itself offered.
Tool servers connected: heldharness.mcp-connectedEvery tool server the harness gave a call was connected when the session started.
No foreign tool servers: heldharness.mcp-hermeticNo call loaded a tool server the harness did not give it.
Builtin tools: heldharness.builtin-toolsA check recorded with the run.
Structured replies arrived: heldharness.structured-outputEvery call that asked for structured output and ran to the end got it.
No silent fallbacks: heldharness.not-degradedNo phase fell back on a default (an empty plan, a default winner) instead of its output.
The task was decomposed: heldorchestrator-workers.decompositionThe orchestrator’s reply was read through its schema and held at least one subtask.
The fan-out happened: heldorchestrator-workers.fan-outEvery subtask got a worker, every worker ran, and the recorded subagent count matches.
The synthesis wrote the answer: heldorchestrator-workers.synthesisThe final answer came from the synthesis call, not from a worker’s report standing in for it.
Each call was shown the right tools: heldorchestrator-workers.toolsThe orchestrator and the synthesis were shown no tools and every worker the task’s full toolset.

Phases

Spend$0.153

Drawn from the phase records: timing and cost per call, no tool calls or messages.

Phase	Duration	Cost	Turns	Tools	Model
Decompose	1m 7s	$0.034	2	0	claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
Worker 1: triage-t1070	41.9s	$0.042	6	5	claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
Worker 2: escalate-t1070	23.8s	$0.031	7	6	claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
Worker 3: finalize-t1070	16.2s	$0.023	3	2	claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
Synthesize	39.1s	$0.023	1	0	claude-haiku-4-5-20251001

The call-by-call replay is not published for this run. Traces are large, so the repository keeps 9 of this run set’s 900 and leaves the rest out; the score, phases and final answer on this page come from the committed run record.

Runs you can replay

A gate that blocked the right moveGated-execute · Haiku 4.5
Three proposals beat one agentPropose-select · Haiku 4.5
A verifier that earned its keepPlan-execute-verify · Sonnet 5.5
A revision that did not helpPlan-execute-verify · Haiku 4.5
The control, missing a stepSingle · Haiku 4.5

Record this cell yourself: npm run bench -- run --strategies orchestrator-workers --tasks support-hard --models claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 --repeats 1

Score breakdown

passSeverity raised to the matrix value for the service and impact scope
1.00weight 0.21
severity=sev1 (matrix says sev1)
passEscalated to the incident commander on call at the ticket deadline
1.00weight 0.29
escalated_to=E-402 (expected E-402, on call at 2026-03-17T19:40:00Z)
passTicket left in status escalated rather than closed
1.00weight 0.14
status=escalated
passThe committed SLA deadline survived the escalation
1.00weight 0.14
sla_due_at=2026-03-17T19:40:00Z
passA comment records that the open linked ticket blocks closure
1.00weight 0.14
passEscalation matrix read before the severity was raised
1.00weight 0.07

Penalties

No penalties were applied.

Scorer metadata

tool calls: 13
failed tool calls: 0
distinct tools: 7

Final answer

Summary for Next Shift

I need to flag a critical discrepancy in the worker reports that leaves the ticket in an incomplete state.

What the Reports Show

Reports 1 & 2 claim:

Severity set to sev1 (critical, company-wide payroll impact)
Escalated to E-402 Ola Berg (incident-command rotation)
Status escalated
Deadline: 2026-03-17T19:40:00Z

Report 3 (finalize, most recent) shows:

Severity: sev3 (not upgraded)
Assigned to: E-201 Ines Kovac (not escalated)
Status: open (not escalated)

This is a conflict. Either the triage and escalation changes didn't persist, or Report 3 is showing an incorrect state. The ticket does not reflect the severity upgrade or escalation that Reports 1 and 2 claim to have made.

What Was Accomplished

✅ Documented the incident: Report 1 added a comment about company-wide impact and sev1 assessment
✅ Identified the blocker: T-1071 (replica timeout) is linked and still open
✅ Documented blocking dependency: Report 3 added a comment that T-1070 cannot close until T-1071 resolves

What's Blocking the Task

❌ Cannot close T-1070 per domain policy—linked ticket T-1071 is still open
❌ Severity/routing incomplete—Reports 1 and 2 claim changes, but Report 3 shows sev3 and E-201 assignment still active
❌ Cannot meet Grace's request to close today because the underlying payroll batch failure (T-1071) must be resolved first

State for Next Shift

T-1070 is open, with T-1071 blocking closure. Next shift needs to:

Verify whether severity/escalation changes from Reports 1 & 2 actually applied
If not applied: manually apply sev1 severity and escalate to incident-command on-call
Focus on resolving T-1071 (replica timeout) to unblock T-1070 closure
Inform Grace Adeyemi that payroll cannot resume until the root cause is fixed

Provenance of the numbers on this page

run set: scaffold-or-scale-v1
models: Haiku 4.5, Sonnet 5.5, Opus 5.5
effort: high
repeats: 2
fixtures: replay
runs: 900 / 900
strategy cost: $354.44
judge cost: $9.19
wall clock: 9h 48m
git: fce5807b2d

Cost excludes judge calls, which are tracked separately so a scoring model never flatters or penalises an architecture. Every figure on this site is read from results/ at build time.