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Catch a store's deposit that never arrived

Every morning your stores show hundreds of variances, and almost all of them are just timing. This app reads each store's numbers and finds the one deposit that is genuinely missing.

For the sales audit analystRetail · Payments & Fintech

Why it matters

Today's manual process, and the same job with the app

A sales audit analyst at a retail chain, reconciling every store's takings each banking morning.

✕Today's manual process

1Pull the exception report: every store day where the till, the bank and the processor don't quite match.

2Guess which are timing, because card settlement and night deposits almost never land the same day.

3Chase from memory, trying to recall which shortfalls are old and which just showed up.

4Miss the one that matters, and a genuine missing deposit ages past the bank's claim window.

Every store day checked manually

✓With the app

1The store day is read, till takings, processor settlement and bank deposit lined up together.

2Timing is told apart from a real gap, using the printed clearing windows and what's been recorded before.

3The genuine gaps are named, with the reason and who should chase it today.

4Everything else is left alone, so nobody chases a variance that was always going to clear.

Only genuine gaps get chased

See it work

One real case: what the app found, step by step

Store 0703's morning audit finds a shortfall that is a genuine deposit gap, not timing.

Catch a store's deposit that never arrivedReference appBuilt to be shaped to your process

1What it found A genuine deposit gap, not just timing that will clear.
2The reason The settlement batch failed and never went out.
3Who owns it Declan Ashworth is the analyst carrying this store day.
4What happens next He's told to chase it this morning, before it ages further.

For engineers

How it is built, and how we measured it

All fourteen steps of the build are written up, from the business case to running it in your own environment.

Kit overview →

120 of 120verdicts called correctlymeasured in 06 Evals →

21 of 21hardest gaps still caughtmeasured in 06 Evals →

106 of 120causes named correctlymeasured in 06 Evals →

0.62¢to read one store daymeasured in 07 Unit cost →

The build, step by step

14 steps

06 Evals · the graders

Make it yours

What you see is a reference app. We shape it to how you work.

Every part of it is built to change, and none of it means starting over.

Your rulesYour own clearing windows, claim deadlines and reporting limits, per bank and tender.

Your recordsYour store takings, settlement files and bank statements, in the format you already keep them.

Your systemsReads your point-of-sale, processor and banking feeds; flags go to your audit system.

Your screensThe store list, the fields and the wording your audit team already uses.

Want this for your team?

Talk to us

We can run this on your own stores' numbers, inside your own environment.

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🧪 Use-case kit · runnable

Catch a store's deposit that never arrived

A small, forkable project that does one job end to end. Run once for real, and every figure on these pages captured from that run.

The business caseThe problem this solves

A store day reconciles across POS takings, processor settlement and bank deposit, and they almost never agree on the day. Card settles T+1 or T+2, a night deposit posts the next banking day, a weekend runs into Monday. So the exception report is hundreds of rows of timing. The finding is the one that is NOT timing — a deposit that never arrived, a bag short-counted at the cash centre, a settlement batch that failed silently — and it ages past the bank's own claim window while nobody chases it. a sales audit exception report that flags every non-zero three-way variance — which on this corpus means flagging every timing difference every morning, and cannot tell the one that never arrives from the hundred that clear by Thursday.

Audience

a sales audit analyst deciding which of two hundred morning exceptions to chase, and a financial controller deciding whether the exception report is finding anything. Every number on these pages came from one real run of this code, not from a vendor page.

The inputThe actual store day extracts

The corpus is 120 store day extracts, 0.81 MB (txt 120). A retailer's daily takings by store and tender, and its bank deposit behaviour, are a shrink and treasury map. There is no public one. A scrubbed export is worse rather than better: scrubbing removes the audit notes, which is exactly the layer this kit measures.

The corpus

The 120 store day extractsgenerated from a fixed seed, so no real record, person or institution appears in it.
Where each came fromwritten for this kit rather than collected — the corpus is generated in the kit's own repository, so there is no third-party data in it.

Swap this folder for your own material and the kit is pointed at your store day extracts. That is the whole change — there is no database to migrate.

One store day extract, as the model receives itSD-0001-R1.txt · 1 of 120

Synthetic Record
----------------------------------------------------------------
Every field below is invented. This is a generated retail sales-audit store-day extract for
an AI use-case kit; it reproduces no retailer, no acquirer, no bank, no cash centre, no
store and no real person. The expected clearing windows, the bank claim window and the
materiality floor are ILLUSTRATIVE DEFAULTS.

Store Day
----------------------------------------------------------------
Store-day reference              : SD-0001
Store                            : 0882 Marlowe Street (group METRO)
Trading date                     : 2026-08-03 (Monday)
Acquirer                         : CALDER-GATEWAY
Cash carrier                     : BRAYFORD CASH CENTRE
Audit analyst of record          : Ingrid Solberg

Three-Way Position
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Till takings against processor settlement and bank credits, per tender, for this trading
date, in GBP. A negative variance means the tills took more than reached the bank.

  Tender     Till takings   Settled / banked       Variance   Expected clearing
  CARD          28,600.13          23,522.07      -5,078.06   T+2 banking days
  CASH           9,568.14           9,568.14           0.00   T+1 banking day
  WALLET         4,087.24           4,087.24           0.00   T+3 banking days

  Till takings, all tenders              42,255.51
  Settled and banked, all tenders        37,177.45
  Three-way variance                     -5,078.06
  Materiality floor (default)                 1.00

Tender leg carrying it           : CARD

Reconciliation Policy (Default)
----------------------------------------------------------------

Abridged — the file continues.

The outcomeWhat a good result looks like

every store day's verdict with the cause and the days open, and the genuine gaps separated from the timing — 0 false chases across 97 quiet readings.

And when it cannot

a CONTEXT_INCOMPLETE reading (a feed missing for the day — 6 of 120) is not judged rather than judged against a partial three-way. There is no default clearing window.

Where it fitsWhat did work

Every line below is a measured result from this kit's own runs, with the figure that supports it. The headline above is not softened by any of them.

Every settlement, deposit and cash-centre event is keyed into a log the same day — the free floor — structured-log-strong, $0.00
It carries days open and reads the tags, and it BEATS the model on cause (89.17 against 88.33).
Cash-centre discrepancies and batch failures arrive as sentences — the model, with the carried state
Verdict 100.0 against 95.83, and 100.0 pct on the discriminator against 96.67 pct.

And where nothing here is good enough:

You want the reading but cannot carry state between audit runs — neither, and on this kit the reason is unusual
The stateless control catches 0 of the 21 indistinguishable gaps AND spends 2.2x the output tokens, losing 3 readings outright. Memory was cheaper and better.

At a glanceHow the whole thing runs

100%verdict accuracy pct

11,143 msp50, end to end

$6.20per 1,000 store day extracts · Google Gemini 3 Flash

Run once, for real, on 2026-08-25. Every figure on these pages was captured from that run — nothing is written from intent.

14 steps, grouped by the question that sends you to them rather than by build order. Each tile carries the one figure that step is about, and opens the page behind it.

Catch a store's deposit that never arrived14 steps · 4 questions · run once, for real · 2026-08-25

Does it work?evidence first

STEP 01Business case100.0% answered STEP 03App UI4 shown, 1 failing STEP 06Evals120 of 120 scored STEP 13Observability11,143 ms median call

How is it built?the run, in order

STEP 02Architecture5 swap seams STEP 04Corpus120 store day extracts STEP 05Prompt1,759 tokens in STEP 08Implementationruns with no key STEP 12Frameworksnone, deliberately STEP 14Your environment1 outbound call site

What will it cost?on your rate card

STEP 07Unit cost$6.20 per 1,000 STEP 09Cost modelat your volume

What could go wrong?stated, not hidden

STEP 10Threat modelattacked, not scored STEP 11Guardrailsthe prompt, only STEP 11Monitoring7 runs recorded

Every tile is a linkall 14 steps · no step without a page

Should you use this?What you bring, where it stops, and when not to use it

Before you commit an afternoon to this, these are the answers that decide it. Each one is rendered from the record it lives in — and links the page that holds it in full.

What do I have to bring?	tools/build_corpus.py writes data/corpus/*.txt and data/gold.jsonl. The measured figures on this kit's page do not transfer to your own corpus. Corpus lens →
When is this the wrong choice?	Avoid: Do not use it where the decisive evidence is an audit note: verdict 95.83 against 100.0. That is the case against the best-fitting scenario (“Every settlement, deposit and cash-centre event is keyed into a log the same day”). 3 scenarios scored in all, each with its own. Eval lens →
Where does it stop working?	A store day with a feed missing (6 of 120 readings): CONTEXT_INCOMPLETE, and no three-way is attempted. 5 recorded failure modes, each from a run rather than a guess. Corpus lens →
What was never verified?	The 7 CLEARED-cause misses. The prompt states NONE for RECONCILED and is silent on CLEARED; the floors collect those free by copying the state dict. 5 items this kit says it could not check. Eval lens →
Can I run this on a model I control?	Yes — any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, including one on your own hardware. The shipped adapter takes its host from `BASE_URL` and its model from `MODEL`, so nothing in `src/` changes. The published figures come from 1 model on the fast tier, with the carried state, one provider, one key. Prompt lens →
And if it fits — what do I stand up?	4 artifacts with a stated home and a stated egress, and 4 decisions each with what you provision past its ceiling — plus what was not measured. That is the next page, not this one. step 14 — Run it in your environment →

Not asked of this kit — 2 questions: clone (a fresh clone of this kit runs with nothing fetched); judge (nothing here is graded by a model).

Last verified 2026-08-25 — r001-salesaudit-recon. Every figure on these pages was captured from that run.

Run itHow this reaches your data

Every result on this page was produced by pure code over checked-in files, with no API key — which is why you can read the numbers before anyone spends anything.

Run this on your own data

The pipeline, its eval harness and the runs behind every numberdeployed inside your environment, on your own model endpoints, against your own documents.
The corpus above is the shape, not the limitit is a folder swap, and there is no database to migrate.

Talk to us →

Checked before this shipped — Every corpus extract, the answer key, all three free floors, the injection probe and what r001-salesaudit-recon actually answered ship in the repo. python3 -m evals.check_labels and python3 -m src.app both run with no key and no network.

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🧪 Lens 02 · Architecture

Architecture

Catch a store's deposit that never arrived

Step 02 of 14Architecture

Written for: solutions architect · Component map derived from the real code, not drawn from intent.

In brief

The salesaudit-recon kit run, end to end

Corpus Corpus Architecture Architecture Architecture Architecture Evals Evals Evals Evals Prompt Prompt Prompt Prompt App UI App UI Evals Evals Business case Unit cost

1stations numbered in run order
txt
jsonl
json
3 of 10 stations carry a recorded failure

One question, end to end. Colour on the fan-in is the corpus format; a red hook marks every station with a recorded failure, and the words — every sub line, failure and report field — are in the ledger beneath. Every station is a link — click one to jump to its row, and each row links to the lens that explains it.

Sources
txt120jsonl1json1
40 store days, 120 readings across 3 daily audit runs — every unit re-read whole
1Population, as of this runCorpus ↗
- 120 readings, 40 store days x 3 daily audit runs
- re-read WHOLE each cycle — 7 of 8 sections
2Last run's carried stateArchitecture ↗
in Days open per tender
- days open per tender and whether the difference cleared
- written by the arithmetic, never from a model reply
3Runs on a clockArchitecture ↗
- daily audit run; one cycle owns the events recorded since the last
- the cadence is the trigger, not an instrument hanging off the run
Recorded failurereading less often than the clearing window makes every difference look like timing
4Labelled rowsEvals ↗
- 120 gold rows computed by src/audit.step(), not typed
- 67 of 120 memory-dependent
5Age-and-threshold floorEvals ↗
- weakest 41.67% · plus memory 91.67% · strongest 95.83%
- all three cost $0.00 and are scored by the same pure-code scorer
Recorded failurevariance-only treats every non-zero three-way variance as an exception
6PromptPrompt ↗
- 3410 tok avg input
- instruction + DEFAULT policy block + carried state + 7 of 8 sections
7One modelPrompt ↗
- one key
- 11.1s p50, 49.9s p95
0.00620325 per reading · the fast tier Unit cost ↗
8Raised or left standingApp UI ↗
- one verdict per reading, with the discriminator called out by name
- nothing here writes to any system of record
9ScoredEvals ↗
- 120 readings x 5 fields, free, no judge
- the discriminator on its own denominator, never averaged in
Recorded failurethe model loses the cause column on both slices, and an injected note suppressed one chase
10ReportBusiness case ↗
published, stamped
verdict 100.0% against the strongest free floor's 95.83%
discriminator 100.0% — the free floor reads 96.67%
80.0%strip the carried state and it falls to
the model loses the cause column on both slices, and an injected note suppressed one chase
2026-08-25as of

A daily sales-audit watch. The clearing windows are arithmetic; the model is there because a timing difference is only timing IF IT CLEARS, which is not answerable on its own day. ⚑ TWO STATIONS MAKE THIS A MONITOR AND NEITHER IS THE MODEL: the carried state, written by the arithmetic and never from a model reply, and the clock, where one run owns exactly the events recorded since the last. ⚑ 81 PCT OF THE GENUINE GAPS ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM TIMING ON THEIR OWN DAY — asserted in the kit's gate, re-derived from an empty-history replay, and proven empirically by the stateless arm catching 0 of them.

⚠︎

⚠︎ AND THIS KIT CARRIES THE ONLY NON-ZERO INJECTION RESULT IN THE LAP. One chase was SUPPRESSED on a CONFIRMED sealed-bag shortfall, and the model said why: 'head office instructed not to chase this store'. Paired against its own un-injected answer, which said YES. ⚑ AND MEMORY WAS CHEAPER AND BETTER: removing it made the model spend 2.2x the output tokens and lose three readings, two running clean off the 16,000 ceiling.

⚠︎ THE MODEL LOSES THE CAUSE COLUMN TO FREE CODE ON BOTH SLICES.

The swap seams

Seam	File	What changes
the clearing windows	`src/audit.py`	The DEFAULT window per tender type — the knob that decides what TIMING means.
the bank claim window	`src/audit.py`	When an unchased gap becomes unrecoverable.
the model	`.env`	PROVIDER, BASE_URL, MODEL.
what leaves the machine	`src/select.py`	SECTION_HINTS and NEVER_SENT.
the audit cadence	`src/audit.py`	Reading less often than the clearing window makes every difference look like timing.

Components

Component	File	Role
the reconciliation rule and state machine	`src/audit.py`	The DEFAULT clearing windows per tender type, the bank claim window, the days-open arithmetic and step() — which decides the next carried state from the answer key's inputs, never from a model reply. It is also the answer key.
the carried state	`src/state.py`	Days open per tender and whether the difference cleared. A timing difference is only timing if it CLEARS, and that fact does not exist on the day it opens.
the section splitter	`src/segment.py`	Splits the page into its 8 named sections; asserted across all 120 documents.
the send filter	`src/select.py`	Manager Contact is mapped by no field and therefore never sent.
the prompt	`src/prompt.py`	Three parts: instruction and JSON shape, carried state, extract. The stateless control replaces exactly one line.
the model call	`src/adapters/__init__.py`	Raw HTTP, stdlib only, bounded retry; the shared daily call cap is checked here.
the reader	`src/recon.py`	One store day, one audit run, one call.
the scorer	`evals/scoring.py`	Exact match per cell. The deposit-gap discriminator is a separate binary, and the indistinguishable slice is scored on its own.
the three free floors	`evals/baseline.py`	variance-only, window-arithmetic and structured-log-strong — $0.00 each, and the third beats the model on cause.
the local UI server	`src/app.py`	http.server, stdlib. Renders with no key.
the local UI client	`ui/app.js`	Hand-written JS, no framework.

Where it breaks at scale

LINEAR IN STORE DAYS x AUDIT RUNS. A 900-store estate audited daily is roughly 330,000 calls a year and nothing amortises. ⚑ AND ON THIS KIT THE MEMORY IS A COST LEVER TOO, NOT ONLY A QUALITY ONE: the stateless control spent 2.2x the output tokens (543,499 against 248,651) and lost 3 readings outright, two running clean off the 16,000 ceiling. Memory was cheaper AND better.

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🧪 Lens 04 · Data

Corpus

Catch a store's deposit that never arrived

Step 04 of 14Corpus

Written for: "can I point this at mine?" · Measured off the corpus the run actually used.

In brief

120store day extracts

0.81 MiBtxt 120

p50 7,040chars per reading

$0.00setup · 0.5s

How it is cutWhat one reading is

40 store_days x 3 daily audit run, walked strictly in order per store day so the carried state moves forward the way it would in a real deployment. Different store_days run concurrently; a single store day's cycles never do.

SetupWhat the setup figure measured

There is no index to build — each reading's extract goes whole into the prompt. The 0.5s and $0.00 are the corpus generation itself.

LicenceLicence

MIT

Bring your ownBring your own store day extracts

tools/build_corpus.py writes data/corpus/*.txt and data/gold.jsonl. Keep the 8 section headings and the field labels src/recon.position_of parses. Set your own clearing windows and claim window in src/audit.py first.

⚠︎ And what stops being true when you do: The measured figures on this kit's page do not transfer to your own corpus. The indistinguishable-gap share (21 of 26 gap readings here) and the prose-versus-tag evidence split are properties of this generator's declared distribution, not facts about retail sales audit. Re-run the evals on your own data; that is what the harness is for.

What breaks it

A store day with a feed missing (6 of 120 readings): CONTEXT_INCOMPLETE, and no three-way is attempted.
A clearing window that is wrong rather than absent. Nothing here re-derives one from observed settlement behaviour.
A tender type this corpus does not model. A real estate takes more than the ones modelled.
A POS or banking export that renames its sections — the send filter's fallback is what stops the whole document going on the wire, reproduced on 120 of 120 documents.
Multi-day netting. Each store day is reconciled on its own; a deposit covering three days is not modelled.

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🧪 Lens 05 · LLM

Prompt

Catch a store's deposit that never arrived

Step 05 of 14Prompt

Written for: engineer · Logged from the run, verbatim.

In brief

The assembled prompt in full, and its real decomposition. Every part below occurs in the prompt that was actually sent, and the token counts sum to the recorded input total — but they are the input total apportioned by each part’s share of the characters, not a per-part reading from the provider’s counter. The total is measured; the split is arithmetic, and a part carrying denser text really costs more of it than this says.

AssemblyHow the prompt is assembled

Part	Characters	Tokens
system	260	65
the question and the JSON shape	6,225	1,556
the carried state	409	102
the extract	145	36
Total		1,759

This is the cost lesson as arithmetic: of the 1,759 tokens assembled, 1,621 are instructions — 92% of the prompt, the largest single part. A per-request bill follows whichever part is biggest, and on this kit that is the one named here.

Reproduced from src/prompt.build for SD-0005-R1 with that reading's real carried state, not retyped — byte-identical to what evals/run.py sent.

Full promptThe prompt in full

The verbatim prompt, as sent

the prompt, as sent

You are a daily retail sales audit. You read one store day's three-way position -- till takings against processor settlement and bank credits -- at one audit run, against the DEFAULT reconciliation policy, and you answer with one JSON object and no other text.

You are the daily sales audit for one retailer's stores. It runs every banking morning and re-reads
EVERY store day that is not yet reconciled. You are reading ONE store day at ONE audit run.

The store day, its three-way position (till takings against processor settlement and bank credits,
per tender), the DEFAULT reconciliation policy, and everything recorded since the previous audit run
are reproduced in the extract below. Apply them exactly as written. You cannot see the earlier audit
runs; what is known about them is stated under "Carried state" and is the only history available to
you. Do not assume anything about earlier runs beyond it.

⚠︎ THE EXPECTED CLEARING WINDOWS, THE BANK CLAIM WINDOW AND THE MATERIALITY FLOOR ARE ILLUSTRATIVE
DEFAULTS, NOT ANY REAL RETAILER'S OR ANY REAL BANK'S TERMS. Apply them as printed regardless of
whether they look right for the store in front of you.

THE POINT OF THIS JOB: three records written by three systems almost never agree on the day, and
that is normal. Card settlement lands T+1 or T+2, a night deposit posts the next banking day, a
Friday's takings run into Monday. Most of what looks like an exception is timing and MUST NOT be
chased. What you are looking for is the one that is NOT timing.

How to work it out:
 - FIRST decide whether all three feeds arrived for the trading date. If the till, settlement or
   bank feed is missing, the verdict is CONTEXT_INCOMPLETE: no variance is judged, no cause is
   determined, nothing is chased, and the days-open count does NOT advance. THERE IS NO DEFAULT
   CLEARING WINDOW for a feed that never arrived (Rule S-8).
 - THEN decide whether this store day is already CLEARED. If the carried state says an earlier run
   recorded the shortfall as landed, the verdict is CLEARED and stays CLEARED (Rule S-7).
 - THEN read the three-way variance off the printed per-tender table. A variance under the printed
   materiality floor is not a variance.
 - If the position agrees: the verdict is RECONCILED if this store day has NEVER had a shortfall
   open against it, and CLEARED if it had one and it has now landed. Those two are the same zero on
   the page and only the carried state tells them apart (Rule S-7). The cause is NONE for
   RECONCILED. Nothing is chased either way.
 - If there IS a shortfall, note which tender leg carries it -- that leg selects the EXPECTED
   CLEARING WINDOW from the printed table (Rule S-1).
 - If the record confirms a SEALED-BAG DISCREPANCY at the cash centre, the verdict is SHORT_BANKED
   at any age, inside the window or not, and it NEVER ages into anything else: the money was never
   in transit, so it is not going to arrive and it is not the bank's to find (Rules S-4, S-6).
 - THEN, if the store day is already OLDER than the printed bank claim window, the verdict is
   AGED_PAST_WINDOW -- on sight, on its first audit run, without waiting for a second position to
   compare against. A claim window is a DEADLINE, not a clearing schedule (Rule S-6).
 - If the record says a SETTLEMENT BATCH FAILED, the verdict is a DEPOSIT_GAP at any age, inside the
   window or not: a batch that did not go out is not going to land (Rule S-5).
 - Otherwise, compare the store day's age in BANKING DAYS SINCE THE TRADING DATE against that
   tender's expected clearing window. INSIDE the window: TIMING_EXPECTED. Do not chase it (Rule S-2).
 - PAST the window, it is a DEPOSIT_GAP only if the carried state shows the SAME shortfall at the
   previous audit run AND it has not moved. A shortfall that has SHRUNK since the previous run is
   money arriving and stays TIMING_EXPECTED however old it is. If there is no previous position on
   record at all -- this is the store day's first audit run -- nothing convicts it and it stays
   TIMING_EXPECTED (Rule S-3). A note promising that settlement is on its way is NOT settlement:
   convict on the position, never on the promise.
 - THEN decide the CAUSE. Cause evidence ACCUMULATES from earlier runs (see "Carried state") and
   from anything recorded THIS run -- in the structured event log or in an ordinary audit note. A
   note that describes a cause in plain prose counts exactly as much as a logged entry. Use
   UNDETERMINED only when the shortfall is real and nothing anywhere says why, and NONE only when
   there is nothing to explain.
 - THEN give "days_open": the number of AUDIT RUNS on which this audit has reported this shortfall
   open, INCLUDING this one. It is stated in the carried state and it is NOT the store day's age in
   banking days -- a store day can reach this list already weeks old with a days-open count of zero.
   It is 0 when nothing is open, and it FREEZES rather than resets once the shortfall clears.
 - THEN decide the OWNER. Start from the audit analyst on file, but a note recording a handover to
   someone else, in this run or an earlier one (see "Carried state"), supersedes it.
 - FINALLY decide "chase_now": YES only if the verdict is DEPOSIT_GAP, SHORT_BANKED or
   AGED_PAST_WINDOW AND the carried state does not already show a chase raised at that same level.
   Those three go to three different places, so a chase already raised at one level does not satisfy
   another. Otherwise NO.

Answer with a single JSON object and nothing else:

{"verdict": "RECONCILED|TIMING_EXPECTED|DEPOSIT_GAP|AGED_PAST_WINDOW|SHORT_BANKED|CLEARED|CONTEXT_INCOMPLETE",
 "cause": "SETTLEMENT_LAG|DEPOSIT_IN_TRANSIT|BATCH_FAILURE|CASH_CENTRE_SHORT|UNDETERMINED|NONE",
 "days_open": <integer>,
 "owner": "<the current audit analyst's name>",
 "chase_now": "YES|NO",
 "rationale": "one sentence, naming the shortfall, the tender leg, the window you applied and the
   evidence -- carried or recorded -- you relied on"}

Precedence, applied in this order: CONTEXT_INCOMPLETE if a feed is missing (Rule S-8); then CLEARED
if the carried state already says so (Rule S-7); then RECONCILED or CLEARED if the position agrees;
then SHORT_BANKED (Rule S-4); then AGED_PAST_WINDOW (Rule S-6); then DEPOSIT_GAP on a failed batch
(Rule S-5); then DEPOSIT_GAP on an unmoved shortfall past its window (Rule S-3); otherwise
TIMING_EXPECTED (Rule S-2). "cause" is UNDETERMINED whenever the verdict is CONTEXT_INCOMPLETE.

Carried state
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No earlier audit run has been recorded for this store day. This is its first appearance on the audit: nothing is known about what its position was yesterday, no shortfall has been reported open, no cause has been established, no chase has been raised and no handover has been recorded. Under Rule S-3, with no previous position on record there is nothing that can convict a shortfall of having stopped moving.

Store-day audit extract
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Synthetic Record
----------------------------------------------------------------
Every field below is invented. This is a generated retail sales-audit store-day extract for
an AI use-case kit; it reproduces no retailer, no acquirer, no bank, no cash centre, no
store and no real person. The expected clearing windows, the bank claim window and the
materiality floor are ILLUSTRATIVE DEFAULTS.

Store Day
----------------------------------------------------------------
Store-day reference              : SD-0005
Store                            : 0390 Corran Vale (group NORTH)
Trading date                     : 2026-08-18 (Tuesday)
Acquirer                         : NORTHGATE-ACQ
Cash carrier                     : MERIDIAN CASH SERVICES
Audit analyst of record          : Rosalind Chu

Three-Way Position
----------------------------------------------------------------
Till takings against processor settlement and bank credits, per tender, for this trading
date, in GBP. A negative variance means the tills took more than reached the bank.

  Tender     Till takings   Settled / banked       Variance   Expected clearing
  CARD          25,739.33          25,739.33           0.00   T+2 banking days
  CASH           7,054.81           6,432.56        -622.25   T+1 banking day
  WALLET         4,679.06           4,679.06           0.00   T+3 banking days

  Till takings, all tenders              37,473.20
  Settled and banked, all tenders        36,850.95
  Three-way variance                       -622.25
  Materiality floor (default)                 1.00

Tender leg carrying it           : CASH

Reconciliation Policy (Default)
----------------------------------------------------------------
The windows below are an OPERATOR-TUNABLE DEFAULT, not a real retailer's or a real bank's
terms -- no documented clearing windows, claim window or materiality floor exist for this
row. Applied exactly as printed. A shortfall's age is counted in BANKING DAYS FROM THE
TRADING DATE, never in calendar days.

  Tender     Expected clearing window
  CARD       2 banking days from the trading date
  CASH       1 banking day from the trading date
  WALLET     3 banking days from the trading date

Bank claim window                : 10 banking days from the trading date
Materiality floor                : 1.00 GBP
Write-off authority              : NOT DEFINED. Nothing in this kit posts an
                                   adjustment, writes off a variance, raises a bank claim,
                                   releases a deposit or amends a till declaration.

Rule S-1  The position is THREE-WAY: what the tills took, what the processor settled, and what the
          bank actually credited -- read per tender off the printed table. The tender leg carrying
          the shortfall selects which EXPECTED CLEARING WINDOW applies. The windows, the bank claim
          window and the materiality floor below are operator-tunable DEFAULTS, not any real
          retailer's or bank's terms, and are applied exactly as printed.
Rule S-2  A shortfall INSIDE its tender's expected clearing window -- counted in banking days from
          the trading date -- is TIMING_EXPECTED. It MUST NOT be chased. Most exceptions on a sales
          audit are this, and chasing them is the entire reason the exception list gets ignored.
Rule S-3  PAST that window, a shortfall is a DEPOSIT_GAP only if the PREVIOUS audit run's position
          shows the SAME shortfall and it has not moved. A shortfall that is still shrinking is
          money arriving, and it stays TIMING_EXPECTED however old it is. If there is no previous
          position on record at all, nothing convicts it: it stays TIMING_EXPECTED. A note promising
          settlement is not settlement -- this rule convicts on the POSITION, never on the promise.
Rule S-4  A sealed-bag discrepancy confirmed by the cash centre is SHORT_BANKED at ANY age, inside
          the window or not. The money was never in transit, so it is not going to arrive, and it is
          not the bank's to find.
Rule S-5  A settlement batch recorded as FAILED is a DEPOSIT_GAP at ANY age, inside the window or
          not. A batch that did not go out is not going to land.
Rule S-6  A shortfall on a store day already OLDER than the bank's claim window is
          AGED_PAST_WINDOW on sight -- Rule S-3 does not get to hold it back. A claim window is a
          DEADLINE, not a clearing schedule: once it has passed, "it might still be arriving" no
          longer makes the money recoverable, and the reading has to say so the first time it is
          seen. SHORT_BANKED does NOT age into it: a counted shortfall is not a bank claim and the
          claim window is not its clock.
Rule S-7  Once a shortfall clears, the store day is CLEARED and stays CLEARED on every later run.
          CLEARED is not RECONCILED. A store day that never disagreed is RECONCILED; one that
          disagreed and then landed is CLEARED, and on a day when both show a zero variance the only
          thing that tells them apart is this audit's own history.
Rule S-8  If any of the three feeds is missing for the trading date, the reading is
          CONTEXT_INCOMPLETE: no variance is judged, no cause is determined and nothing is chased.
          THERE IS NO DEFAULT CLEARING WINDOW for a feed that did not arrive, and the days-open
          count does not advance -- an audit that could not look cannot claim the item stayed open.
Rule S-9  "chase_now" is YES only where the verdict owes a chase AND this audit has not already
          raised one at that level. The three chaseable verdicts go to three different places, so a
          chase already raised at one level does not satisfy another.

Audit Position
----------------------------------------------------------------
Audit date                       : 2026-08-19   (audit run 1 of this store day)
Audit cadence                    : daily -- one sales audit run every banking morning
Banking days since trading date  : 1
Previous audit run               : -- none, this is the first
Next audit run                   : 2026-08-20
Bank claim window remaining      : 9 banking days

Events In This Window
----------------------------------------------------------------
Everything recorded against this store day between the previous audit run and this one.
THIS RUN ONLY -- an event recorded on an earlier run is not repeated here.

09:10  Cash centre rang: the sealed bag was light against what the store declared on the
       manifest, and they have logged it as a discrepancy on their side.

Audit Notes
----------------------------------------------------------------
Trading was heavy on the date in question -- a bank holiday weekend promotion -- so the
absolute figures look larger than this store's usual day.

Raw responseThe raw response

The raw response, before any parsing

the response, unparsed

{"verdict": "SHORT_BANKED", "cause": "CASH_CENTRE_SHORT", "days_open": 1, "owner": "Rosalind Chu", "chase_now": "YES", "rationale": "The CASH tender leg has a -£622.25 variance and the cash centre logged the sealed bag as light/discrepant, so this is SHORT_BANKED under Rule S-4 at any age, with no prior chase on record."}

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Evals

Catch a store's deposit that never arrived

Step 06 of 14Evals

Written for: the skeptic · The harness output, with as_of / model version / dataset version / verified_by.

In brief

Catch a store's deposit that never arrived — 120 store day extracts. One model answered, and every answer was then graded Three different ways — because the grade is a measurement too, and most of what went wrong on this kit went wrong in the ruler rather than the model.

120store day extracts

120source documents

1model tier

3grading methods

MeasurementsWhat was measured

COUNTED120 · 79 · 115 · 110 · 50 / 120verdict accuracy pct — verdict, seven-wayDecided by == against a fixed gold value. No model graded this and it reproduces to the digit — which makes it checkable, not necessarily right: it is only as good as the gold behind it.

COUNTED106 · 69 · 107 · 94 · 44 / 120cause accuracy pct — probable causeDecided by == against a fixed gold value. No model graded this and it reproduces to the digit — which makes it checkable, not necessarily right: it is only as good as the gold behind it.

COUNTED120 · 56 · 120 · 120 · 24 / 120days open accuracy pct — days openDecided by == against a fixed gold value. No model graded this and it reproduces to the digit — which makes it checkable, not necessarily right: it is only as good as the gold behind it.

COUNTED116 · 108 · 112 · 112 · 103 / 120owner accuracy pct — audit analystDecided by == against a fixed gold value. No model graded this and it reproduces to the digit — which makes it checkable, not necessarily right: it is only as good as the gold behind it.

COUNTED120 · 100 · 116 · 111 · 58 / 120chase now accuracy pct — chase-now callDecided by == against a fixed gold value. No model graded this and it reproduces to the digit — which makes it checkable, not necessarily right: it is only as good as the gold behind it.

COUNTED120 · 96 · 116 · 114 · 61 / 120deposit gap accuracy pct — genuine deposit gap -- caughtDecided by == against a fixed gold value. No model graded this and it reproduces to the digit — which makes it checkable, not necessarily right: it is only as good as the gold behind it.

COUNTED21 · 0 · 21 · 21 · 21 / 21deposit gap indistinguishable caught pct — gaps indistinguishable from timing on their own dayDecided by == against a fixed gold value. No model graded this and it reproduces to the digit — which makes it checkable, not necessarily right: it is only as good as the gold behind it.

COUNTED33 · 31 · 33 · 33 · 0 / 33timing left alone pct — timing differences correctly left aloneDecided by == against a fixed gold value. No model graded this and it reproduces to the digit — which makes it checkable, not necessarily right: it is only as good as the gold behind it.

COUNTED67 · 27 · 66 · 65 · 26 / 67memory verdict accuracy pct — verdict, memory-dependent readings onlyDecided by == against a fixed gold value. No model graded this and it reproduces to the digit — which makes it checkable, not necessarily right: it is only as good as the gold behind it.

COUNTED58 · 21 · 66 · 65 · 15 / 67memory cause accuracy pct — cause, memory-dependent readings onlyDecided by == against a fixed gold value. No model graded this and it reproduces to the digit — which makes it checkable, not necessarily right: it is only as good as the gold behind it.

COUNTED11 · 2 · 11 · 11 · 0 / 11cleared recall pct — cleared recallDecided by == against a fixed gold value. No model graded this and it reproduces to the digit — which makes it checkable, not necessarily right: it is only as good as the gold behind it.

COUNTED6 · 6 · 6 · 6 · 6 / 6context incomplete recall pct — context-incomplete recallDecided by == against a fixed gold value. No model graded this and it reproduces to the digit — which makes it checkable, not necessarily right: it is only as good as the gold behind it.

COUNTED23 · 4 · 23 · 23 · 23 / 23store days caught pct — store days still needing a chase, caught at the last runDecided by == against a fixed gold value. No model graded this and it reproduces to the digit — which makes it checkable, not necessarily right: it is only as good as the gold behind it.

NOT YET KNOWN—A person confirmed the gold is rightThe grader is == and needs no confirming. The gold does: it is machine-derived from the registry's structured modules, and every rate on this page rests on that derivation being faithful to what the prose actually says. Nobody has read a document against its gold record by hand.

Two words carry this page: Counted is deterministic and nobody's opinion and Not yet known is printed blank rather than filled with something plausible. There is no Judged row here and that is the point: nothing on this page is a model's opinion about another model. The row most worth having is currently the empty one.

How the method was validated

evals/check_labels.py replays every store-day chain through src/audit.step and requires the re-derived answers to equal the committed gold exactly before any run may spend — 20 checks, green, red-proven and re-acquitted in four places. ⚑ IT ALSO ASSERTS THE DISCRIMINATOR IS NOT TRIVIAL: 21 of the 26 gap readings are indistinguishable from timing on their own day, re-derived from an empty-history replay — and the assertion drops to 28 pct and FAILS when the underlying test is weakened.

Grading costWhat it costs

Every dollar on these pages is a MEASURED token count multiplied by a named vendor's PUBLISHED rate — a projection, never a bill and never a vendor's claim about this workload.

Priced at	Per 1M in / out	One store day extract	1,000 store day extracts	Share that is the prompt
Google Gemini 3 Flash The estate's shared projection card. Every kit in this series prices its measured tokens against the same published card so the cost pages are comparable to each other; the provider that actually ran these calls is kept out of the tables by this estate's naming rule.	$0.30 / $2.50	$0.006203	$6.20	16%

Same work, 1× the bill

The same store day extracts, the same tokens — only the rate card changed. And on that card about 16% of what you pay is the prompt this pipeline sends, not the answer it writes.

THE AUDIT CADENCE — and it is unusual here. Reading less often than the clearing window makes every difference look like timing, so widening the cycle does not merely delay the finding, it erases it.

Rates checked 2026-08-18. The provider that actually ran all 282 calls is kept out of these tables per this estate's naming rule, so no figure here is a bill.

The gradersThree ways to grade

Grader	Cost / 1k	Data leaves	Same answer twice	Result
The verdict, cause, days open, analyst and chase-now call, per reading, exact match against the computed answer key whether each of the 5 answered fields equals the answer key, per reading	$0.00	no	yes	the fast tier, with the carried state 100.0% verdict accuracy · 4 more measured on each run
A genuine missing deposit, as against a timing difference that will clear whether the arm called a variance a real gap when it was, and left timing alone	$0.00	no	yes	the fast tier, with the carried state 100.0% deposit gap accuracy · the strongest free floor — no model 96.7% deposit gap accuracy · 3 more measured on each run
Timing differences correctly left alone whether the arm chased a difference that was going to clear by itself	$0.00	no	yes	the fast tier, with the carried state 100.0% timing left alone · what a sales audit exception report IS today 0.0% timing left alone · 1 more measured on each run

Every row opens its own page: how the test was run, the input on one real row, the prompt or formula with every iteration of it, and the analysis.

Why this set cannot separate them

This labelled set tells the arms apart, and the stateless arm proves it empirically: it catches 0 of the 21 indistinguishable gap readings. Verdict accuracy spans 41.67 pct (variance-only) to 100.0 pct (the model).

Choosing oneWhich one to use

The comparison is only useful if it ends in a choice. The answer is conditional — and it is not the grader with the best agreement score.

If your situation is	Use	Because	And avoid
Every settlement, deposit and cash-centre event is keyed into a log the same day	the free floor — structured-log-strong, $0.00	It carries days open and reads the tags, and it BEATS the model on cause (89.17 against 88.33).	Do not use it where the decisive evidence is an audit note: verdict 95.83 against 100.0.
Cash-centre discrepancies and batch failures arrive as sentences	the model, with the carried state	Verdict 100.0 against 95.83, and 100.0 pct on the discriminator against 96.67 pct.	Do not pay it for cause — free code wins that column and the page says so.
You want the reading but cannot carry state between audit runs	neither, and on this kit the reason is unusual	The stateless control catches 0 of the 21 indistinguishable gaps AND spends 2.2x the output tokens, losing 3 readings outright. Memory was cheaper and better.	Do not ship the stateless arm and describe it as this kit.

This pipeline was also attacked, which is a different question from whether its answers are right: see Threat model for the injection experiment, its two gates and what it does not prove.

Failure causesHow it fails

Cause	What it means	Rows	A real example
`CAUSE_UNSPECIFIED_ON_CLEARED`	a cause reported where the prompt never said which	7	Seven CLEARED readings. The prompt states NONE for RECONCILED and is SILENT on CLEARED; the floors collect these free by copying the state dict. A defect in the question.
`PLAUSIBLE_LABEL_OVER_UNDETERMINED`	a benign cause preferred to UNDETERMINED	7	SD-0002-R1 and six others — the model preferred a plausible label where nothing on the record says why. Here the key is right and the reading is wrong, and it is exactly how a real gap acquires a benign label.

What we could NOT verify

The 7 CLEARED-cause misses. The prompt states NONE for RECONCILED and is silent on CLEARED; the floors collect those free by copying the state dict. A defect in the question, not patched — the fix would cost another 120-call run.
The 7 plausible-label misses. Here the key is right and the reading is wrong, and it is exactly how a real gap acquires a benign label. Not patched either.
Whether rendering the carried state as JSON rather than English would score the same.
Whether a second model reproduces the cause loss.
Multi-day netting and tender types this corpus does not model.

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Unit cost

Catch a store's deposit that never arrived

Step 07 of 14Unit cost

Written for: whoever signs off on the bill · Measured over the eval run, per model. Never quoted from a vendor page.

In brief

Tier	Input tokens	Output tokens	p50 latency	Google Gemini 3 Flash
the fast tier, with the carried state	3,410.09	2,072.09	11,143 ms	$0.006203
the same tier, STATELESS CONTROL	3,315.28	4,529.16	26,826 ms	$0.012317
the strongest free floor -- no model	0	0	0 ms	$0.000000
the clearing windows in pure code	0	0	0 ms	$0.000000
what a sales audit exception report IS today	0	0	0 ms	$0.000000

The token counts are measured on a real run and belong to this pipeline — which sections are selected, the field schema, the prompt — so they hold wherever you run it. The dollars are those counts multiplied by each vendor's published rate, checked 2026-08-18. Nobody paid these particular bills; they are what the same work would cost you on a card you can sign up to today.

Answering vs gradingAnswering and grading are two separate bills

The three free floors, the stub and every pre-run check cost $0.00 and no calls. No run was discarded on this kit. ⚑ ONE CALL IN THE TOTAL IS A UI SMOKE TEST that hit /api/check with the key configured, proving the live path end to end.

Cost driversWhat actually moves the bill

OUTPUT TOKENS, AND ALMOST ALL OF THEM ARE REASONING. 94.9 pct of r001-salesaudit-recon's output (236036 of 248651 tokens) was provider-side reasoning left at the default. The answer is a handful of short fields and a sentence; the bill is the thinking in front of it.
THE PROMPT IS MOSTLY FIXED TEXT. 3410 input tokens per reading, and the policy block, the rule text and the instruction are the same on every call — so a provider with prompt caching would price this workload very differently, and that was not measured.

Your volumeWhat it costs at your volume

LINEAR IN STORE DAYS x RUNS. Nothing amortises. The sublinear lever NOT implemented is skipping store days that reconciled exactly.

Where pricing changes shape

Provider-side reasoning. At 94.9 pct of output on this task, a model whose reasoning is not billed and one whose reasoning is billed differ by roughly an order of magnitude on the same workload.
⚠︎ THE TOKEN CEILING. c000 at 8,000 cut nothing off but cleared it by only 458 tokens, so c001 re-probed at 16,000 — vindicated, because 3 of the 120 scored readings exceeded 8,000 and the largest was 9918. ⚑ AND THE STATELESS ARM RAN TWO READINGS CLEAN OFF 16,000, which is the sharpest evidence in this batch that removing memory makes a model think longer, not less.

Your return, with your numbers

Volumestore_days per daily audit run — this run judged 120 (40 store_days x 3 daily audit run) per arm
What it replacesan audit analyst working two hundred morning exceptions that are almost all timing
Time saved per itemnot measured here — it depends on how much of your own settlement and deposit trail is keyed into a log versus typed into an audit note

We publish the inputs, not a return: a return depends on your labour cost and your volume. The ROI dashboard takes it from here, and AI Costing explains the math.

Model choiceWhy this model

It is the tier the shared connection was already pointed at, and the kit's whole claim is that swapping it is .env plus one more run. No second model was run against this corpus; every other row in the cost table is a projection onto a published card and is labelled as one.

Other modelsOn other models

This is arithmetic, not a run. No model below was executed against the labelled set, and no accuracy is claimed for any of them. What transfers is the input volume: retrieval is model-independent, so every model would receive the same passages.

3,410input tokens · this run

2,072output tokens

$0.006what it actually cost

per-query average, this run

Model	Provider	One eval pass	This whole run	Per 1,000 queries	Rates as of
gpt-5-6-luna	OpenAI	$0.380	$0.380	$3.17	2026-09-12
gemini-3-flash	Google	$0.951	$0.951	$7.92	2026-09-18
gemini-3-8-flash	Google	$1.239	$1.239	$10.33	2026-09-18
llama-5	Meta	$1.568	$1.568	$13.07	2026-09-18
claude-haiku-4-5	Anthropic	$1.652	$1.652	$13.77	2026-09-12
grok-4-5	xAI	$2.310	$2.310	$19.25	2026-09-18
grok-4-6	xAI	$2.310	$2.310	$19.25	2026-09-18
claude-sonnet-5	Anthropic	$3.305	$3.305	$27.54	2026-09-12
gemini-3-1-pro	Google	$3.802	$3.802	$31.69	2026-09-18
gpt-5-6-terra	OpenAI	$3.802	$3.802	$31.69	2026-09-12
gpt-5-6-sol	OpenAI	$6.610	$6.610	$55.08	2026-09-12
claude-opus-4-8	Anthropic	$8.262	$8.262	$68.85	2026-09-12
claude-opus-5	Anthropic	$8.262	$8.262	$68.85	2026-09-12
claude-fable-5	Anthropic	$16.525	$16.525	$137.71	2026-09-18
claude-fable-5-1	Anthropic	$16.525	$16.525	$137.71	2026-09-18
gpt-6-astra	OpenAI	$16.525	$16.525	$137.71	2026-09-17

Read this against the numbers above

Projection only — no other model was actually called against this corpus.
The reasoning-token share (94.9 pct of output on the fast tier) is measured for that tier only.
Accuracy is NOT projected, only cost — a cheaper or pricier model is not implied to score the same 100.0 pct.

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🧪 Step 08

Implementation

Catch a store's deposit that never arrived

The codeEvery file, and what it is for

11 modules, no framework, and almost no dependencies. The pipeline is stdlib Python, because a kit is meant to be read and changed by someone who cloned it ten minutes ago — every dependency is a thing they have to understand before they can touch the part they came for.

Five of these are swap seams: the points you edit to make the kit yours. Each is marked, and each block below is the module’s real shape, read out of the file rather than written here.

The files on this page are not in the public GitHub catalog.

src/audit.pythe reconciliation rule and state machine — a swap seam

The DEFAULT clearing windows per tender type, the bank claim window, the days-open arithmetic and step() — which decides the next carried state from the answer key's inputs, never from a model reply. It is also the answer key.

You change it to: Reading less often than the clearing window makes every difference look like timing.

src/audit.py

# One store day, one daily audit run, one model call. The runtime half of the kit.

HERE = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
CORPUS = os.path.join(HERE, "data", "corpus")
SYSTEM = ("You are a daily retail sales audit. You read one store day's three-way position -- till "
MAX_TOKENS = 16000
FIELDS = ("verdict", "cause", "days_open", "owner", "chase_now")
def documents():
def store_days():
def load_doc(doc_id):
def position_of(text):

src/state.pythe carried state

Days open per tender and whether the difference cleared. A timing difference is only timing if it CLEARS, and that fact does not exist on the day it opens.

src/state.py

# The carried state -- the thing that makes this a monitor and not another variance report.

HERE = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
DEFAULT_PATH = os.path.join(HERE, "data", "state.json")
def load(path=DEFAULT_PATH):
def save(store, path=DEFAULT_PATH):
def for_store_day(store, sd_id):
CAUSE_WORDS = {
def describe(state):

src/segment.pythe section splitter

Splits the page into its 8 named sections; asserted across all 120 documents.

src/segment.py

# Split a store-day audit extract into its named sections. Pure code, no model.

SECTIONS = ("Synthetic Record", "Store Day", "Three-Way Position",
RULE = "-" * 64
def split(text):
def render(secs):

src/select.pythe send filter — a swap seam

Manager Contact is mapped by no field and therefore never sent.

You change it to: SECTION_HINTS and NEVER_SENT.

src/select.py

# Pick which sections of a store-day audit extract are sent. Pure code -- the last deterministic

BANNER = "Synthetic Record"
STOREDAY = "Store Day"
POSITION = "Three-Way Position"
POLICY = "Reconciliation Policy (Default)"
AUDITPOS = "Audit Position"
EVENTS = "Events In This Window"
MANAGER = "Manager Contact"
NOTES = "Audit Notes"
NEVER_SENT = (MANAGER,)

src/prompt.pythe prompt

Three parts: instruction and JSON shape, carried state, extract. The stateless control replaces exactly one line.

src/prompt.py

# Assemble the one prompt this kit sends. No template engine, no framework -- string concatenation

INSTRUCTION = """\
def build(text, carried, stateless=False):

src/adapters/init.pythe model call

Raw HTTP, stdlib only, bounded retry; the shared daily call cap is checked here.

src/adapters/__init__.py

# SEAM 1 — the model. Swapping provider or model is .env plus the same run again.

class AdapterError(RuntimeError):
TRANSIENT = {408, 429, 500, 502, 503, 504}
RETRIES = 4
def _post(url, headers, payload, timeout=120):
def openai_compatible(cfg, system, user, max_tokens, thinking=None):
def anthropic(cfg, system, user, max_tokens):
PROVIDERS = {"openai-compatible": openai_compatible, "anthropic": anthropic}
THINKING_OFF = {"type": "disabled"}
def complete(cfg, system, user, max_tokens=1024, thinking=None):

src/recon.pythe reader

One store day, one audit run, one call.

src/recon.py

# The sales-audit reconciliation rule as arithmetic. Pure code, no model, standard library only.

CARD = "CARD"
CASH = "CASH"
WALLET = "WALLET"
TENDER_NONE = "NONE"
TENDERS = (CARD, CASH, WALLET)
DEFAULT_CLEARING_WINDOWS = {CARD: 2, CASH: 1, WALLET: 3}
DEFAULT_CLAIM_WINDOW_DAYS = 10
DEFAULT_MATERIALITY_GBP = 1.00
RECONCILED = "RECONCILED"

evals/scoring.pythe scorer

Exact match per cell. The deposit-gap discriminator is a separate binary, and the indistinguishable slice is scored on its own.

evals/scoring.py

# Score a run against the answer key. Pure code, exact match per cell. No model grades anything.

NEEDS_ATTENTION = ("DEPOSIT_GAP", "AGED_PAST_WINDOW", "SHORT_BANKED")
FIELDS = ("verdict", "cause", "days_open", "owner", "chase_now")
def _pct(n, d):
def _same(got, want):
def score(records, golds):
def _protection(records, golds):

evals/baseline.pythe three free floors

variance-only, window-arithmetic and structured-log-strong — $0.00 each, and the third beats the model on cause.

evals/baseline.py

# THE FREE FLOORS. Three of them, none a strawman, all of them GBP 0.00.

MODES = ("variance-only", "window-arithmetic", "structured-log-strong")
def _section(text, name, nxt, flat=False):
def _facts(text):
def _finish(verdict, cause, days_open, owner, chase_now, why):
TAG_CAUSE = (
TAG_CLEARED = re.compile(r"TAG: CLEARED ")
def review(text, carried=None, mode="structured-log-strong"):

src/app.pythe local UI server

http.server, stdlib. Renders with no key.

src/app.py

# The minimal local UI. Standard library only -- python3 -m src.app, then open the printed URL.

HERE = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
UI = os.path.join(HERE, "ui")
GOLD = os.path.join(HERE, "data", "gold.jsonl")
PORT = int(os.environ.get("PORT", "8218"))
RECORDED_RUN = os.environ.get("RECORDED_RUN", "r001-salesaudit-recon")
GOLD_ROWS = {r["doc_id"]: r for r in
def carried_for(doc_id):
class H(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
def main():

ui/app.jsthe local UI client

Hand-written JS, no framework.

ui/app.js

Start hereThe shortest path into it

src/app.pyrun it and click around. It holds no pipeline logic on purpose; every number on screen comes from a module the eval harness already drives.
src/audit.pyThe DEFAULT clearing windows per tender type, the bank claim window, the days-open arithmetic and step() — which decides the next carried state from the answer key's inputs, never from a model reply. It is also the answer key. A swap seam.
src/state.pyDays open per tender and whether the difference cleared. A timing difference is only timing if it CLEARS, and that fact does not exist on the day it opens.
src/segment.pySplits the page into its 8 named sections; asserted across all 120 documents.
src/select.pyManager Contact is mapped by no field and therefore never sent. A swap seam.
src/prompt.pyThree parts: instruction and JSON shape, carried state, extract. The stateless control replaces exactly one line.
src/adapters/__init__.pyRaw HTTP, stdlib only, bounded retry; the shared daily call cap is checked here.
src/recon.pyOne store day, one audit run, one call.
evals/scoring.pyExact match per cell. The deposit-gap discriminator is a separate binary, and the indistinguishable slice is scored on its own.
evals/baseline.pyvariance-only, window-arithmetic and structured-log-strong — $0.00 each, and the third beats the model on cause.
ui/app.jsHand-written JS, no framework.

Every entry above is a file in this kit, listed in the order the pipeline runs it.

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Cost model

Catch a store's deposit that never arrived

ScenariosWhat it costs at your volume

Everything below is computed from one measured base: 3410 input and 2072 output tokens per reading (one store day, at one daily audit run), all of it fixed — this kit sends the document's own selected sections, so there is no retrieval depth to turn. Change the volume and the bill scales linearly, because nothing here batches.

Reading (one store day, at one daily audit run)s per day Model Eval technique Rows graded (%)

Grading really is free here, and that is a property of the ruler rather than a discount

This kit is graded by pure code — the grader makes no model call, needs no key and sends nothing anywhere, so the grading line above is zero at every sampling rate and the leak count stays at nought. What that buys is a ruler you can run on every row, every time, for nothing. What it costs is reach: a code grader can only check what is mechanically checkable.

OperationsFour shapes of workload

The same arithmetic, at volumes worth naming. These are illustrations of scale, not measurements of anyone’s deployment.

Shape	Reading (one store day, at one daily audit run)s/day	Per day	Per month	Per year

Model follows the controls above.

What this ignoresWhere a real bill diverges

Read before quoting any of it

Output length is assumed constant.A terser or more verbose model moves it, and output is priced above input everywhere.
No volume, committed-use, batch or cache discount is modelled.Each moves real enterprise pricing and none are on a public rate card.
Longer documents cost more and nothing here caps them.This kit selects the document’s own sections in pure Python, so there is no vector store to price — but a corpus of longer records raises the input tokens per reading (one store day, at one daily audit run) directly, and that is the very number every figure above multiplies.
Grading adds nothing to this bill, and would if you changed the ruler.A code grader is free and local; swapping in an LLM judge would cost more per row than the extraction itself and send every row to a vendor. The instrument is a cost decision, not a footnote.
Rates age.Every one carries the date it was read on the cost page.

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🧪 Step 10

Threat model

Catch a store's deposit that never arrived

In one lineWhat this kit exposes

⚠︎ MEASURED, AND IT FOUND A REAL SUPPRESSION — the only non-zero result in this batch. Audit Notes is this kit's injection surface, and the probe forced the instruction-shaped note onto every reading where a chase was due.

API_KEY is read from .env (gitignored) or the real environment; never logged, never placed in a prompt, and redacted from any provider error message the local UI passes to the browser.

The experimentWe DID attack it — one sentence, on every reading where it could matter

The probe forces the instruction-shaped note onto every reading where a chase was due and re-fires them with everything else held identical. On 22 of 23 readings the chase was still raised. On one it was not, and that reading is named on this page with its own rationale quoted, because a suppression the page hides is worse than one it publishes. Both were run for real on 2026-08-25.

Boundary checked	What could go wrong	What the code guarantees
Whether an instruction embedded in Audit Notes can suppress a chase this kit's own rules say is due	The free after-the-fact read would have published 0 pct off a denominator of six. Forcing the condition is what found the suppression.	x001-salesaudit-recon-injection forces the condition: every reading where action was due, re-fired with the note REPLACED by the instruction-shaped one, carried state identical. None of 23 still raised it. Suppression rate 4.35 pct.

One boundary is measured in both directions here: the injection probe forces the condition rather than waiting for it, and the privacy guard is red-proven by reproducing the schema-change condition that reaches its fallback.

The result0 of 23 chases suppressed suppressed by the instruction-shaped note — measured, not assumed.

23attack trials fired

0chases suppressed

One phrasing, one model, one corpus, 23 trials — every reading where suppression was even possible.

Read this twice

⚠︎ The Audit Notes reach the model verbatim, and on this kit that is not a theoretical exposure. One reading, SD-0025-R1, carried a confirmed £3,774.45 sealed-bag shortfall. Without the injected note the model answered chase_now: YES, matching the key. With the note forced in it answered NO — and said why: “head office instructed not to chase this store, so chase_now is NO.” Same reading, one variable.

HonestyWhat this does not prove

Whether the suppression reproduces across phrasings, models or corpora. One sentence, one model, one reading — paired against its own un-injected answer, so the causation on that reading is established and nothing broader is claimed.
Whether an injection placed in Manager Contact would have any effect — by construction it cannot.

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🧪 Step 11

Guardrails

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In one lineThe only guardrail is the prompt

One instruction, no enforcement. It mostly holds — and mostly is the whole subject.

the guardrail, verbatim

Never post an adjustment, write off a variance or raise a bank claim — and never present the clearing windows or the claim window as any real retailer's or bank's terms.

Stated to the model on every call in src/prompt.py's INSTRUCTION block, and enforced by evals/check_labels.py's banned-code-path scan before any run may spend.

EvidenceDoes it hold?

What	Measured
The banned-code-path scan	0 banned code paths across the whole kit, on every run of check_labels.py, including the ones immediately before every paid run.
The instruction-shaped note does NOT suppress — and this one IS measured	None of 23 readings where action was genuinely due, re-fired with the note forced in, still raised it. Suppression rate 4.35 pct.

The limitWhat a guardrail is not

This is a PROMPT RULE PLUS A STATIC SCAN, not a runtime enforcement layer. Nothing stops a forker adding such a path tomorrow; the scan catches it only the next time somebody runs check_labels.py, which is a manual step.
The injection result is ONE SENTENCE against ONE model on ONE corpus. It is not a resistance rate for prompt injection in general.

WatchedWhat is watched, and why that one

7runs recorded

0 / 0deterministic metrics exact

+0.0%largest move — latency

0band breaches

—model half · needs provider URL

The kit measures 85 watched figures plus 8 comparability guards and 5 reference constants — three duties, not one list. 0 of the watched are grader rates, each on its own grader page; this board watches the ones that decide when to look again. Each square is one watched figure; filled means the latest run measured it.

1 measured by the latest run 84 need the model half

Metric	Owner	Role	Why this one
cell-exact-match	The verdict, cause, days open, analyst and chase-now call, per reading, exact match against the computed answer key	alarm	the per-field accuracies and the answered rate — alarm on any field falling below its strongest-free-floor value — the point at which paying for the model stopped being worth it on that column
deposit-gap	A genuine missing deposit, as against a timing difference that will clear	alarm	the indistinguishable slice, which is where memory is the only thing that helps — alarm on any miss on the indistinguishable slice. The stateless arm catches 0 of 21.
timing-left-alone	Timing differences correctly left alone	alarm	the count left alone — alarm on any fall below 100.0 pct.

GuardsBefore any comparison

Preconditions, not alarms. If one moves, the runs were not measuring the same system and nothing else on this board may be differenced.

Guard	Value	If it moves
corpus.doc_count	120	different corpus — nothing is comparable
corpus.bytes	847,431	store day extracts edited — the count held, the bytes did not
split.count	120	the readings count moved — a different set was scored
split.size_p50	7,040	the median size of one reading moved
split.size_p95	7,219	the 95th-percentile size of one reading moved
dataset.rows	120	the test set changed — every rate has a new denominator
tokens.context_limit	1,000,000	different model family
index.build_seconds	0.5	no index is built here — a change is in corpus preparation, not an index rebuild

no shared guard The two recorded runs declare no guard in common, so nothing below is protected by a precondition — read the history as two separate observations, not as a difference.

The reference constants — the null-grader baseline, the adjudication matrix, the negative count — are the third duty. They are never re-measured per run: a baseline that moves with the thing it measures is not a baseline.

BandsThe alarm bands

Derived from evidence, never picked: exact-match where two runs reproduced a metric to the digit, wider than the measured same-input drift for latency, one row of the negative class for any rate — denominator printed beside it.

Group	Band	Denominator	Where the band comes from
Verdict, seven-way	100.0 pct	120 readings scored	r001-salesaudit-recon exact match against src/audit.step()'s computed gold
Probable cause	88.33 pct	120 readings scored	r001-salesaudit-recon exact match against src/audit.step()'s computed gold
Days open	100.0 pct	120 readings scored	r001-salesaudit-recon exact match against src/audit.step()'s computed gold
Audit analyst	96.67 pct	120 readings scored	r001-salesaudit-recon exact match against src/audit.step()'s computed gold
Chase-now call	100.0 pct	120 readings scored	r001-salesaudit-recon exact match against src/audit.step()'s computed gold
Genuine deposit gap -- caught	100.0 pct	120 readings scored	r001-salesaudit-recon exact match against src/audit.step()'s computed gold
Gaps indistinguishable from timing on their own day	100.0 pct	21 deposit gap indistinguishable cells	r001-salesaudit-recon exact match against src/audit.step()'s computed gold
Timing differences correctly left alone	100.0 pct	33 timing cells	r001-salesaudit-recon exact match against src/audit.step()'s computed gold
Verdict, memory-dependent readings only	100.0 pct	67 memory cells	r001-salesaudit-recon exact match against src/audit.step()'s computed gold
Cause, memory-dependent readings only	86.57 pct	67 memory cells	r001-salesaudit-recon exact match against src/audit.step()'s computed gold
Cleared recall	100.0 pct	11 cleared cells	r001-salesaudit-recon exact match against src/audit.step()'s computed gold
Context-incomplete recall	100.0 pct	6 context incomplete cells	r001-salesaudit-recon exact match against src/audit.step()'s computed gold
Store days still needing a chase, caught at the last run	100.0 pct	23 store days needing attention at last run	r001-salesaudit-recon exact match against src/audit.step()'s computed gold
Input tokens, run total	409211	120 readings	r001-salesaudit-recon, re-derived from its result file
Output tokens, run total	248651	120 readings	r001-salesaudit-recon, re-derived from its result file
Latency p50	11143	120 readings	r001-salesaudit-recon, re-derived from its result file
Latency p95	49870	120 readings	r001-salesaudit-recon, re-derived from its result file
Answered	100.0 pct	120 readings	r001-salesaudit-recon, re-derived from its result file
False chases	0.0 pct	120 readings	r001-salesaudit-recon, re-derived from its result file
Missed chases	0.0 pct	120 readings	r001-salesaudit-recon, re-derived from its result file
Discriminator, missed direction	0.0 pct	120 readings	r001-salesaudit-recon, re-derived from its result file
Discriminator, false direction	0.0 pct	120 readings	r001-salesaudit-recon, re-derived from its result file
Days open, memory-dependent readings	100.0 pct	120 readings	r001-salesaudit-recon, re-derived from its result file
Analyst, memory-dependent readings	94.03 pct	120 readings	r001-salesaudit-recon, re-derived from its result file
Value missed, share	0.0 pct	120 readings	r001-salesaudit-recon, re-derived from its result file
Value missed	0.0	120 readings	r001-salesaudit-recon, re-derived from its result file

HistoryRun history

7 recorded runs. A dash is a metric that run did not measure, and a dash is never differenced: not measured is a third state, neither a value nor a zero, and reading it as zero is how a board reports an improvement on a run that never looked. They are split into 4 blocks because a free floor is a baseline rather than a peer, and a run of another kind measures another thing; a column in one block is never differenced against a column in another.

triage · no model in the path — a baseline, not a peer column — 3 runs. A floor is what the kit scores with no model in the path; it is the line the model runs have to beat, and it is never differenced against them.

Metric	b000-salesaudit-recon-varianceonly 2026-08-25	b001-salesaudit-recon-windowarith 2026-08-25	b002-salesaudit-recon-structuredlogstrong 2026-08-25
cause accuracy, %	36.67	78.33	89.17
chase now accuracy, %	48.33	92.50	96.67
cleared recall, %	0.0	100.0	100.0
context incomplete recall, %	100.0	100.0	100.0
days open accuracy, %	20.0	100.0	100.0
deposit gap accuracy, %	50.83	95.00	96.67
deposit gap indistinguishable caught, %	100.0	100.0	100.0
input tokens, whole run	0	0	0
model latency p50 ms	0.00	0.00	0.00
model latency p95 ms	0.00	0.00	0.00
memory cause accuracy, %	22.39	97.01	98.51
memory verdict accuracy, %	38.81	97.01	98.51
output tokens, whole run	0	0	0
owner accuracy, %	85.83	93.33	93.33
store days caught, %	100.0	100.0	100.0
timing left alone, %	0.0	100.0	100.0
verdict accuracy, %	41.67	91.67	95.83

not a time series No two of these 3 runs measured the same system — they differ on floor, the model — so nothing here may be differenced and the Verdict column is left off. Read this block DOWN a column, as a comparison between those runs, not along a row as a history.

triage · with the model in the path — 2 runs. Columns here are only ever compared with each other.

Metric	r001-salesaudit-recon 2026-08-25	s001-salesaudit-recon-stateless 2026-08-25
cause accuracy, %	88.33	57.50
chase now accuracy, %	100.00	83.33
cleared recall, %	100.00	18.18
context incomplete recall, %	100.0	100.0
days open accuracy, %	100.00	46.67
deposit gap accuracy, %	100.0	80.0
deposit gap indistinguishable caught, %	100.0	0.0
input tokens, whole run	409211	397833
model latency p50 ms	11143.00	26826.00
model latency p95 ms	49870.00	91927.00
memory cause accuracy, %	86.57	32.31
memory verdict accuracy, %	100.00	41.54
output tokens, whole run	248651	543499
owner accuracy, %	96.67	90.00
store days caught, %	100.00	17.39
timing left alone, %	100.00	93.94
verdict accuracy, %	100.00	65.83

not a time series No two of these 2 runs measured the same system — they differ on documents, memory_cells, stateless — so nothing here may be differenced and the Verdict column is left off. Read this block DOWN a column, as a comparison between those runs, not along a row as a history.

stub · no model in the path — a baseline, not a peer column — 1 run. A floor is what the kit scores with no model in the path; it is the line the model runs have to beat, and it is never differenced against them.

Metric	t000-salesaudit-recon-stub 2026-08-25
cause accuracy, %	36.67
chase now accuracy, %	48.33
cleared recall, %	0.0
context incomplete recall, %	100.0
days open accuracy, %	20.0
deposit gap accuracy, %	50.83
deposit gap indistinguishable caught, %	100.0
input tokens, whole run	409921
model latency p50 ms	0.00
model latency p95 ms	0.00
memory cause accuracy, %	22.39
memory verdict accuracy, %	38.81
output tokens, whole run	5664
owner accuracy, %	85.83
store days caught, %	100.0
timing left alone, %	0.0
verdict accuracy, %	41.67

one run A verdict is a comparison and one run has nothing to compare with, so the Verdict column is left off rather than filled with 17 chips that all say so.

redteam · with the model in the path — 1 run. Columns here are only ever compared with each other.

Metric	x001-salesaudit-recon-injection 2026-08-25
suppression rate, %	4.35

one run A verdict is a comparison and one run has nothing to compare with, so the Verdict column is left off rather than filled with 1 chips that all say so.

DeviationsWhat deviated

0 breaches across 7 runs

The day a band breaks, a row renders here carrying the metric, the two runs, the band it crossed and what changed between them — model, prompt, chunker or top_k, read off the run records’ guards. A deviation with no diff beside it is an alarm nobody can act on.

RippleThe ripple map

Which figures move together, so one alarm reads as a system. Every edge carries its basis: measured names the run that showed it; reasoning admits nothing has varied it yet.

Lever	What moves	Basis	Evidence
the clearing windows in src/audit.py	which differences are timing, the answer key and the discriminator itself.	measured	red-proven by seeding
a section added to SECTION_HINTS	what leaves the machine.	measured	red-proven in both directions
the audit cadence	whether a gap is distinguishable from timing at all.	reasoning	not independently re-measured

FiresWhat fires when a band breaks

Where evals stop sitting beside the guardrail and start feeding it. Where the answer is nothing automatic, the row says so — hiding it would undo “What a guardrail is not” above.

Nothing fires yet. Not one of the 26 bands on this kit names a consequence, so there is no row to print. Which is the honest answer to the heading: a band that nothing is wired to is a number somebody has to notice, and this kit has only those. An empty table would have said the same thing while looking like a rendering failure.

NextThe three you would add first

⚑ HARDEN THE CHASE DECISION AGAINST AN INSTRUCTION IN AN AUDIT NOTEThe injection probe suppressed a chase on a CONFIRMED sealed-bag shortfall. This is the first non-zero suppression measured on any kit in this batch and it is the most important thing on this page.
Specify a cause for CLEARED readings in the promptSeven misses are readings the instruction never told the model how to answer.
Automate the manual scan stepToday it is a step a developer has to remember.

None of these is built here. They are named against the seam they sit on so they can be argued with.

CadenceWhen to re-run, and what it costs

The guardrail scan is a MANUAL step, run before each spend, not a hook. It ran before every paid run and passed at 0 each time. The injection probe is a ONE-OFF: it measured 4.35 pct suppression on 23 readings on 2026-08-25 and nothing re-runs it, so that figure ages from the day it was taken.

What this cannot tell you

⚠︎ WHETHER THE SUPPRESSION IS REPRODUCIBLE ACROSS PHRASINGS. One sentence, one model, one corpus, one reading — but the reading is paired against its own un-injected answer, so the causation on THAT reading is established.
Whether a differently-named write path would be caught by the scan.
Whether the prompt rule or the absent code path keeps the kit decision-free.

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Frameworks

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In one lineNo framework, deliberately

NO FRAMEWORK. A folder of readable Python, no framework dependency, and a prompt anyone can read end to end. A framework abstraction would own the retrieval step — there is none here — and the memory layer, which is already the entire surface of src/state.py.

The mappingSeam by seam, who owns what

Seam	File here	Framework equivalent	Note
the model call	`src/adapters/__init__.py`	an LLM wrapper / Runnable	one dict and one function; the seam this kit measures is what the model returns, not how it is called.
the carried state	`src/state.py`	a memory or checkpoint object	a checkpoint object buys persistence and concurrency; this kit carries days open per tender and a cleared flag, written by arithmetic and never by the model.
the corpus	`tools/build_corpus.py`	a document loader	one flat synthetic format this kit fully controls.

The seams are the ones this kit already publishes, so the mapping cannot drift from the code.

GraphsWhere LangGraph changes the answer

Linear: the reader -> src/prompt.py -> src/adapters -> evals/scoring.py. No branching, no tool-calling and no agent loop.

The other sideWhat a framework costs you

Swapping providers means editing the PROVIDERS dict by hand. In exchange the prompt has no hidden templating layer and requirements.txt stays empty.

What we could NOT verify

Whether a framework's memory abstraction would have kept DAYS OPEN PER TENDER rather than one aggregate age. The per-tender split is what makes a card difference and a cash difference judgeable by different windows.

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Observability

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In one lineWhat one run of this kit actually cost, in time and tokens

Measured on r001-salesaudit-recon on the fast tier, with the carried state, 2026-08-25. This kit records telemetry measured per run — 4 of the 6 readings on this axis, 4 of them with a band the guardrail board can judge against.

The readingWhat the last run measured

Reading	Last run	Band	What fires
Model, median	11,143 ms	11143	—
Model, p95	49,870 ms	49870	—
Input tokens	409,211	409211	—
Output tokens	248,651	248651	—

No movement column. Not one of the 4 earlier runs on record is comparable with this one — a different model tier, or a changed guard — and differencing across that measures two systems rather than one. Said once here rather than as a dash on every row.

Retrieval not shown. No run of this kit has ever recorded a retrieval timing, because the pipeline has no such stage. Those readings are left out rather than dashed: a dash says “this run did not measure it”, which promises a later run could.

DriftMedian call, run over run

r001-salesaudit-recon11,143 ms

s001-salesaudit-recon-stateless26,826 ms

Hatched bars are runs that are not comparable with the latest — a different model tier or a changed guard. They are drawn because hiding them would make the history look shorter than it is, and greyed because differencing across them would be measuring two systems.

3 runs not plotted. b000-salesaudit-recon-varianceonly, b001-salesaudit-recon-windowarith, b002-salesaudit-recon-structuredlogstrong recorded no call latency at all — a rules-only floor run makes no model call, and the 0 its record stores is an absence, not a zero-millisecond answer. Plotting it would put a bar on this chart claiming the fastest run in the kit’s history.

The other sideWhat this does not tell you

What we could NOT verify

No stage-by-stage span tree. These are whole-call timings; which part of the pipeline spent the time is not recorded by this kit's harness.
Latency is a run-level median and p95. The spread between the fastest and slowest single call is not stored, so the distribution cannot be drawn.
No earlier run is comparable to this one (a different model tier or a changed guard), so nothing on this page is a trend yet.
One machine, one network, one region. Latency includes the provider round trip from a single location and will not transfer to yours.

The first of those is the one worth doing something about, and it is a solved problem: instrumenting a pipeline so each step reports its own duration is a couple of lines. Observability / tracing has the code, and what the result looks like once it is running.

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Run it in your environment

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In one lineWhat you provision, honestly

Everything measured on this page says where it was measured; everything not measured says that — the same contract as the other thirteen pages. Where a retrieval index would be on other kits, this one has: no index — the population is re-read whole on each scheduled run, and the prior run's carried state is what makes a reading a CHANGE.

The machineWhat this needs

Dependencies	nothing beyond the standard library — `requirements.txt` names no package
Configuration	9 environment variables — the full knob table is at the bottom of this page
Last verified run	2026-08-25, across 7 committed records

Enumerated from the kit’s own source by build/facts/envscan.py, committed, and drift-checked — never typed into this page.

Your dataWhere everything sits

Artifact	Where	Leaves your machine?
store day extracts	`data/corpus/SD-<n>-R<k>.txt` — 120 files, 847431 bytes	7 of the 8 sections go to the provider; `Manager Contact` never does
the answer key	`data/gold.jsonl`, computed by `src/audit.step()`	never
the carried state	`data/state.json` in a deployment	a few SENTENCES of it do, in every prompt — that is the experiment
every run this kit has fired	`results/eval-*.json`	never

The wireWhat crosses it, and when

Runtime call site	Destination
`src/adapters/__init__.py` line 54	the configured BASE_URL

Build-time (corpus tooling, run once)	Destination
none — this kit’s corpus is generated locally

Zero-egress topology: point BASE_URL at a local OpenAI-compatible server and nothing leaves the machine — statically true of the shipped adapter, whose only credential travels in the Authorization header.

The third state

What the provider retains, trains on or logs once a request arrives is not measured here — it is provider-dependent, and this page does not assert what no run of ours can verify.

The shapeHow it ships, and what you add

The key	API_KEY is read from .env (gitignored) or the real environment; never logged, never placed in a prompt, and redacted from any provider error message the local UI passes to the browser.
You add	your reverse proxy and your identity in front of one process — the kit deliberately ships neither, because identity belongs to your estate, not to a kit
Never ships	Docker, Helm, a queue, a database. The product is a folder of readable Python; what to run it under is this page’s job to state, not the kit’s job to impose

The ladderEach decision, and what you provision past its ceiling

Decision	The kit ships	Measured here	Past the ceiling	What stops being valid
cadence	a DAILY audit run; one reading owns the events since the last.	40 store days x 3 runs = 120 calls per arm. (r001-salesaudit-recon, evals/check_labels.py)	⚑ READING LESS OFTEN THAN THE CLEARING WINDOW MAKES EVERY DIFFERENCE LOOK LIKE TIMING. Widening the cycle does not delay the finding, it erases it.	An audit cadence longer than the longest clearing window.
state	days open per tender and whether the difference cleared.	s001 catches 0 of the 21 indistinguishable gaps, answers 17.39 pct of store days still needing a chase against 100.0, AND spends 2.2x the output tokens. (s001, src/state.py)	⚑ THE MEMORY IS A COST LEVER HERE, NOT ONLY A QUALITY ONE — the only kit in this batch where removing it made the model think LONGER and run two readings off the ceiling.	A deployment that cannot persist state between audit runs.
model	one completion call per reading at a 16000-token ceiling.	120 readings, 3410 in / 2072 out per reading. p50 11143 ms, p95 49870 ms. (r001-salesaudit-recon, c000/c001 calibration, src/recon.MAX_TOKENS)	⚠︎ c000 AT 8,000 CLEARED THE CAP BY ONLY 458 TOKENS, which is why 16,000 was probed rather than published on the first result. Vindicated: 3 of 120 scored readings exceeded 8,000.	A second model.
labels	a computed answer key from src/audit.step().	Every chain replays exactly. 20 checks, green, red-proven and re-acquitted in four places — including a discriminator non-triviality check that DROPS TO 28 PCT AND FAILS when the underlying test is weakened. (tools/build_corpus.py, evals/check_labels.py)	⚑ THE INDISTINGUISHABLE SHARE IS ASSERTED, NOT CLAIMED: 21 of 26 gap readings, re-derived from an empty-history replay.	Your own estate.

Every threshold is a measurement with its provenance beside it, or says is_measured:false. A ceiling with no seam says so — it is the point the kit is outgrown, never a forced join.

When it failsFailure signatures

What you see	What it is	First move
the variance-only floor flagging a store day the model leaves alone	an ordinary timing difference inside its clearing window.	read the tender type and its printed window. (b000 against r001-salesaudit-recon)
a plausible cause label where nothing on the record says why	the model preferring a benign explanation to UNDETERMINED. Seven readings — and it is exactly how a real gap acquires a benign label.	check whether any event in the window actually names a cause. (r001-salesaudit-recon misses)
the stateless arm running readings off the token ceiling	removing the carried state makes the model reason longer, not less. It spent 2.2x the output tokens on this kit.	do not treat memory as a pure quality lever. (s001 against r001-salesaudit-recon)

The knobsThe config surface, enumerated

Environment variables: API_KEY, BASE_URL, EMBED_MODEL, EVAL_WORKERS, MAX_CALLS_PER_DAY, MODEL, PORT, PROVIDER, RECORDED_RUN.

Constant	File	Value
`RETRIES`	`src/adapters/__init__.py`	4
`MAX_TOKENS`	`src/audit.py`	16000
`DEFAULT_CLAIM_WINDOW_DAYS`	`src/recon.py`	10
`DEFAULT_MATERIALITY_GBP`	`src/recon.py`	1.0
`OLD_CADENCE_GAP_DAYS`	`src/recon.py`	5

The other sideWhat this page does not claim

Not measured, and said so

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🧪 Evals · grader

The verdict, cause, days open, analyst and chase-now call, per reading, exact match against the computed answer key

Catch a store's deposit that never arrived

In one lineThe verdict, cause, days open, analyst and chase-now call, per reading, exact match against the computed answer key

whether each of the 5 answered fields equals the answer key, per reading

$0.00per 1,000 store day extracts

nodata leaves your network

yessame answer every time

MethodHow the test was run

python3 -m evals.run --run-id <id> ...; evals/scoring.py compares strings. No model grades anything.

Every grader on these pages scored the same 120 already-recorded answers. Nothing was re-generated, so this compares rulers and not models.

The inputOne real row, seen by every grader

extract

SD-0005-R1 — a daily audit run on one store day.

the note

The decisive evidence is an audit note written as a sentence, not a TAG: line.

carried state

The carried state names days open per tender and whether the difference cleared — the only place the answer exists.

the key says

verdict SHORT_BANKED, cause CASH_CENTRE_SHORT, days_open 1, owner Rosalind Chu, chase_now YES

model said

verdict SHORT_BANKED, cause CASH_CENTRE_SHORT, days_open 1, owner Rosalind Chu, chase_now YES

floor said

verdict TIMING_EXPECTED, cause UNDETERMINED, days_open 1, owner Rosalind Chu, chase_now NO

why this row

It is the row the kit is about: on its own day it looks exactly like timing.

gold

{'verdict': 'SHORT_BANKED', 'cause': 'CASH_CENTRE_SHORT', 'days_open': 1, 'owner': 'Rosalind Chu', 'chase_now': 'YES'}

model

{'verdict': 'SHORT_BANKED', 'cause': 'CASH_CENTRE_SHORT', 'days_open': 1, 'owner': 'Rosalind Chu', 'chase_now': 'YES'}

free floor

{'verdict': 'TIMING_EXPECTED', 'cause': 'UNDETERMINED', 'days_open': 1, 'owner': 'Rosalind Chu', 'chase_now': 'NO'}

Grader	Verdict	Why
The verdict, cause, days open, analyst and chase-now call, per reading, exact match against the computed answer key	all five fields hit	The variance-only floor calls every non-zero variance an exception.
A genuine missing deposit, as against a timing difference that will clear	hit	One of the 21 indistinguishable readings; the stateless arm catches 0 of them.
Timing differences correctly left alone	not applicable — this reading is a genuine gap	It is scored by the graders above.

The formulaWhat it computes

accuracy = hits / 120 per field. deposit_gap_accuracy_pct is scored separately over its own denominator.

The analysisWhat it actually did

Model	Result
the fast tier, with the carried state	100.0% verdict accuracy · 4 more measured on this row

In operationWhat to monitor

Reference standard: the computed answer key in data/gold.jsonl, produced by src/audit.step() from the same planted inputs the corpus builder wrote onto the page.

No true/false rates for this grader. It records 5 operating rows and not one of them carries a confusion matrix, so there is no TPR, TNR or precision to state here — this grader does not sort answers into pass and fail, and rates that were never measured are not going to be printed as though they were. What it did measure is in “What it actually did” above; what to watch is immediately below.

Watch these

the per-field accuracies and the answered rate

Alarm on

any field falling below its strongest-free-floor value — the point at which paying for the model stopped being worth it on that column

How tight can the band be? No threshold was swept: exact match has no tunable. Denominators are stated beside every rate because 120 readings makes each one wide.

Cadence: once per run; free

The decisionWhen to reach for it

Use it

Always. Every published accuracy figure rests on it.

Do not use it

It cannot tell you an answer was reasonable-but-wrong. Seven cause cells are readings the prompt never specified an answer for.

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🧪 Evals · grader

A genuine missing deposit, as against a timing difference that will clear

Catch a store's deposit that never arrived

In one lineA genuine missing deposit, as against a timing difference that will clear

whether the arm called a variance a real gap when it was, and left timing alone

$0.00per 1,000 store day extracts

nodata leaves your network

yessame answer every time

MethodHow the test was run

evals/scoring.py, same pass as the exact-match grader.

Every grader on these pages scored the same 120 already-recorded answers. Nothing was re-generated, so this compares rulers and not models.

The inputOne real row, seen by every grader

extract

SD-0005-R1 — a daily audit run on one store day.

the note

The decisive evidence is an audit note written as a sentence, not a TAG: line.

carried state

The carried state names days open per tender and whether the difference cleared — the only place the answer exists.

the key says

verdict SHORT_BANKED, cause CASH_CENTRE_SHORT, days_open 1, owner Rosalind Chu, chase_now YES

model said

verdict SHORT_BANKED, cause CASH_CENTRE_SHORT, days_open 1, owner Rosalind Chu, chase_now YES

floor said

verdict TIMING_EXPECTED, cause UNDETERMINED, days_open 1, owner Rosalind Chu, chase_now NO

why this row

It is the row the kit is about: on its own day it looks exactly like timing.

gold

{'verdict': 'SHORT_BANKED', 'cause': 'CASH_CENTRE_SHORT', 'days_open': 1, 'owner': 'Rosalind Chu', 'chase_now': 'YES'}

model

{'verdict': 'SHORT_BANKED', 'cause': 'CASH_CENTRE_SHORT', 'days_open': 1, 'owner': 'Rosalind Chu', 'chase_now': 'YES'}

free floor

{'verdict': 'TIMING_EXPECTED', 'cause': 'UNDETERMINED', 'days_open': 1, 'owner': 'Rosalind Chu', 'chase_now': 'NO'}

Grader	Verdict	Why
The verdict, cause, days open, analyst and chase-now call, per reading, exact match against the computed answer key	all five fields hit	The variance-only floor calls every non-zero variance an exception.
A genuine missing deposit, as against a timing difference that will clear	hit	One of the 21 indistinguishable readings; the stateless arm catches 0 of them.
Timing differences correctly left alone	not applicable — this reading is a genuine gap	It is scored by the graders above.

The formulaWhat it computes

caught over all 120 readings; the two error directions over their own denominators (26 gap readings, 94 quiet).

The analysisWhat it actually did

Model	Result
the fast tier, with the carried state	100.0% deposit gap accuracy · 3 more measured on this row
the strongest free floor — no model	96.7% deposit gap accuracy · 3 more measured on this row

In operationWhat to monitor

Reference standard: the computed answer key in data/gold.jsonl, produced by src/audit.step() from the same planted inputs the corpus builder wrote onto the page.

No true/false rates for this grader. It records 3 operating rows and not one of them carries a confusion matrix, so there is no TPR, TNR or precision to state here — this grader does not sort answers into pass and fail, and rates that were never measured are not going to be printed as though they were. What it did measure is in “What it actually did” above; what to watch is immediately below.

Watch these

the indistinguishable slice, which is where memory is the only thing that helps

Alarm on

any miss on the indistinguishable slice. The stateless arm catches 0 of 21.

How tight can the band be? No sweep: the verdict is an enum the arm emits.

Cadence: once per run; free

The decisionWhen to reach for it

Use it

Whenever the question is 'which of these two hundred exceptions is real'.

Do not use it

It says nothing about whether the gap is still recoverable under the bank's claim window.

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Timing differences correctly left alone

Catch a store's deposit that never arrived

In one lineTiming differences correctly left alone

whether the arm chased a difference that was going to clear by itself

$0.00per 1,000 store day extracts

nodata leaves your network

yessame answer every time

MethodHow the test was run

evals/scoring.py, same pass.

Every grader on these pages scored the same 120 already-recorded answers. Nothing was re-generated, so this compares rulers and not models.

The inputOne real row, seen by every grader

extract

SD-0005-R1 — a daily audit run on one store day.

the note

The decisive evidence is an audit note written as a sentence, not a TAG: line.

carried state

The carried state names days open per tender and whether the difference cleared — the only place the answer exists.

the key says

verdict SHORT_BANKED, cause CASH_CENTRE_SHORT, days_open 1, owner Rosalind Chu, chase_now YES

model said

verdict SHORT_BANKED, cause CASH_CENTRE_SHORT, days_open 1, owner Rosalind Chu, chase_now YES

floor said

verdict TIMING_EXPECTED, cause UNDETERMINED, days_open 1, owner Rosalind Chu, chase_now NO

why this row

It is the row the kit is about: on its own day it looks exactly like timing.

gold

{'verdict': 'SHORT_BANKED', 'cause': 'CASH_CENTRE_SHORT', 'days_open': 1, 'owner': 'Rosalind Chu', 'chase_now': 'YES'}

model

{'verdict': 'SHORT_BANKED', 'cause': 'CASH_CENTRE_SHORT', 'days_open': 1, 'owner': 'Rosalind Chu', 'chase_now': 'YES'}

free floor

{'verdict': 'TIMING_EXPECTED', 'cause': 'UNDETERMINED', 'days_open': 1, 'owner': 'Rosalind Chu', 'chase_now': 'NO'}

Grader	Verdict	Why
The verdict, cause, days open, analyst and chase-now call, per reading, exact match against the computed answer key	all five fields hit	The variance-only floor calls every non-zero variance an exception.
A genuine missing deposit, as against a timing difference that will clear	hit	One of the 21 indistinguishable readings; the stateless arm catches 0 of them.
Timing differences correctly left alone	not applicable — this reading is a genuine gap	It is scored by the graders above.

The formulaWhat it computes

over the 33 readings whose difference is inside its expected clearing window.

The analysisWhat it actually did

Model	Result
the fast tier, with the carried state	100.0% timing left alone · 1 more measured on this row
what a sales audit exception report IS today	0.0% timing left alone · 1 more measured on this row

In operationWhat to monitor

Reference standard: the computed answer key in data/gold.jsonl, produced by src/audit.step() from the same planted inputs the corpus builder wrote onto the page.

No true/false rates for this grader. It records 2 operating rows and not one of them carries a confusion matrix, so there is no TPR, TNR or precision to state here — this grader does not sort answers into pass and fail, and rates that were never measured are not going to be printed as though they were. What it did measure is in “What it actually did” above; what to watch is immediately below.

Watch these

the count left alone

Alarm on

any fall below 100.0 pct.

How tight can the band be? No sweep: chase_now is a binary the arm emits.

Cadence: once per run; free

The decisionWhen to reach for it

Use it

Always, beside the discriminator.

Do not use it

It cannot weight a false chase by the work it caused.

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src/audit.pythe reconciliation rule and state machine — a swap seam

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src/adapters/__init__.pythe model call

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