ScaffoldBench

RunOpus 5.5repeat 1

Gated-execute on Escalate a payroll outage the requester wants closed

claude-opus-5-5__gated-execute__support-hard__r1

Score

1.000

passed
design ran as designed
Cost
$0.312
Latency
1m 25s
setup 0.0s, grading 0.0s
Turns
47
Tool calls
35
Subagents
5
Tokens in / out
142k / 6.3k
114,224 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.
  • Every state change was reviewed: heldgated-execute.reviewedEvery call that changed the world had been allowed by a review before it ran, counted from the world’s own journal.
  • Every decision was read: heldgated-execute.decisionsEvery review that ran to its end gave its decision through the schema; an unreadable one is a denial.
  • Each call was shown the right tools: heldgated-execute.toolsThe executor was shown the task’s full toolset and each reviewer the read-only tools.

Phases

Execute: 0.0s to 1m 25s, finished, 14 tool calls, $0.110
Review 1: set_severity: 9.4s to 15.9s, finished, 2 tool calls, $0.024
Review 2: escalate_ticket: 18.2s to 28.0s, finished, 5 tool calls, $0.034
Review 3: post_comment: 32.5s to 48.7s, finished, 7 tool calls, $0.060
Review 4: assign_ticket: 53.4s to 1m 5s, finished, 4 tool calls, $0.041
Review 5: post_comment: 1m 10s to 1m 19s, finished, 4 tool calls, $0.043

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

PhaseDurationCostTurnsToolsModel
Execute1m 25s$0.1101514claude-opus-5-5
Review 1: set_severity6.5s$0.02442claude-opus-5-5
Review 2: escalate_ticket9.7s$0.03475claude-opus-5-5
Review 3: post_comment16.1s$0.06097claude-opus-5-5
Review 4: assign_ticket11.6s$0.04164claude-opus-5-5
Review 5: post_comment8.8s$0.04364claude-opus-5-5

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

Record this cell yourself: npm run bench -- run --strategies gated-execute --tasks support-hard --models claude-opus-5-5 --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
35
failed tool calls
0
distinct tools
9

Final answer

I've raised T-1070 to the top severity and escalated it to the highest level, but I did not close it today as Grace asked. Our rules don't allow closing a ticket while a linked ticket is still open.

  • Severity: I raised it from sev3 to sev1. That's what the escalation matrix gives a payroll problem that affects the whole company.
  • Escalation: The matrix sends sev1 tickets to the incident-command team. It's escalated to Ola Berg (E-402), who is on that team's call shift when the deadline falls.
  • Owner: Ines Kovac (E-201) is still the assignee. She's on call for the team that owns payroll at the deadline. The escalation tool had also made Ola the assignee, and the reviewer flagged this because only the payroll team may work the ticket. I moved it back to Ines and Ola stays on as the escalation contact.
  • Deadline: It stays at 2026-03-17 19:40 UTC, as committed to Grace. Changing the severity doesn't move a deadline.
  • Why it's still open: The root cause is tracked in T-1071 (the payroll reporting copy of the database is lagging), which is still open with Dana Whitfield (E-101). The batch can't be rerun until that's fixed.
  • Handover: I left a comment on T-1070 for the next shift. It records the above and the next steps: once T-1071 is fixed, rerun the March batch, confirm payments went out, then close.

T-1071 has its own deadline of 10:30 UTC today.

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.