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Claude Sonnet 5.5 on Beyond grid 4

Solved: 57 of 57 blank cells right. It said it was 97% sure. All of Claude Sonnet 5.5's answers.

RESULTSolved
CELLS RIGHT57 / 57
SAID97% sure
MODEL TIME1.7 min
COST$0.161 (API-equivalent)
TOKENS IN / OUT915 / 15,752

5 given 5 filled correctly 53 wrong, with the right digit 3 left empty

The end of its reply

I solved it by hand, using single-candidate and elimination steps. Where a cell had two possibilities, I tried one and discarded it when it led to a contradiction. I then checked that every row, column and box in the final grid contains each digit exactly once.

<grid>
497158623
261943875
358267149
743892516
529671438
816534792
184325967
935716284
672489351
</grid>
<confidence>97</confidence>

Grid beyond-3 of set v1, 24 givens. Puzzle as one line: .....8...261..3...3.8...1...4.89....5...7..3..1..3......4.2...7.....62...7.4....1