Token Burn

Burn is not proof. Output is not victory. Accepted work that repeats is leverage.

today · in flight

2.0M active

19 sessions · spend 20.5M · Claude Code 2.0M
by project: dreamweaver 1.3M · <home> 578K · .openclaw 40K
top session d476d902 (dreamweaver, 1.3M, —)

2026-08-09
as of 2026-08-09T18:00:35Z

Stupid button · 5h ago · gemma4:e4b · 3500t in / 596t out · 76.1s

Trend vs last week

Accepted tokens are DOWN 59.8M (-94.0%) vs last week.
Waste is DOWN 24.1M (-55.4%) vs last week.

What worked

dreamweaver accounted for the bulk of accepted work at 3.0M.
pal contributed 731K in accepted tokens.

What wasted tokens

<home> is the primary sink, logging 19.2M waste tokens with a 0.0 acceptance ratio.
The <home> project alone accounts for 19.2M of the total 19.4M waste volume.
gpu-bench shows 117K in waste tokens, maintaining a 0.0 acceptance ratio.

What needs a verdict

dreamweaver + 006e4690 + 2026-08-06 + dreamweaver: review (PR open — work in flight)
dreamweaver + 77b8f03c + 2026-08-04 + dreamweaver: review (PR open — work in flight)
dreamweaver + f326bd69 + 2026-08-07 + dreamweaver: review (PR open — work in flight)
dreamweaver + d476d902 + 2026-08-09 + dreamweaver: review (open_loop, 1.0M burn — worth looking)
panacea-ai + 2fba23ce + 2026-08-04 + panacea-ai: review (open_loop, 543K burn — worth looking)
memory + ec185e82 + 2026-08-06 + /home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory: not_useful (open_loop, 473K burn — small miss)
dreamweaver + ec185e82 + 2026-08-06 + dreamweaver: review (PR open — work in flight)
memory + 1a653de6 + 2026-08-08 + /home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory: not_useful (open_loop, 219K burn — small miss)

One contrarian observation

Despite the massive waste volume in <home> (19.4M total), the acceptance_ratio for `pal

Rollups — acceptance lane

Headline is accepted tokens (active lane, manual label wins over git auto-classification). Unsettled = committed-not-merged + open-loop. "Active" excludes cache replay; "spend" includes it.

Last 7 days

3.8M accepted

unsettled 10.3M · acceptance 11%

spend 1.38B · 122 sessions · Claude Code 22.4M / Codex 11.1M

Last 30 days

67.4M accepted

unsettled 142.6M · acceptance 25%

spend 10.38B · 653 sessions · Claude Code 214.6M / Codex 58.4M

Last 90 days

67.4M accepted

unsettled 365.0M · acceptance 14%

spend 18.29B · 752 sessions · Claude Code 396.5M / Codex 98.8M

Daily heatmap — last 60 days

Each cell = one UTC day, color intensity = log10(active tokens). Hover for date + counts.

LessMore· log-scale, exact lane

Top 10 days

Date	Active	Spend	Sessions	Top project	Outcomes
2026-07-28	34.5M	1.78B	29	<home> (29.6M)	no_repo=30 · accepted=1 · open_loop=1 · PRs #1
2026-06-28	28.7M	1.41B	2	dreamweaver (19.3M)	?=7
2026-06-27	28.6M	1.10B	2	dreamweaver (16.6M)	?=2
2026-07-16	24.7M	800.9M	41	<home> (17.7M)	?=44
2026-08-01	24.5M	1.57B	10	payday (6.1M)	no_repo=10 · accepted=6 · open_loop=4 · PRs #11, #522
2026-07-31	23.1M	2.10B	9	payday (8.1M)	no_repo=15 · accepted=11 · open_loop=8 · PRs #3, #8, #57, #517
2026-07-21	21.5M	437.6M	27	<home> (10.6M)	?=32
2026-07-30	19.4M	645.3M	26	payday (16.5M)	no_repo=26 · open_loop=3 · accepted=2 · PRs #6
2026-08-06	16.5M	592.1M	36	<home> (12.0M)	no_repo=36 · accepted=3 · committed=2 · open_loop=2 · PRs #522
2026-06-24	13.3M	476.5M	3	dreamweaver (8.3M)	?=6

By project — last 7 days

Project	Active
<home>	19.2M
dreamweaver	11.5M
memory	851K
pal	731K
panacea-ai	543K
payday	183K
command-center	150K
gpu-bench	117K
server	72K
wt-cifix	60K
.openclaw	40K
tmp	26K

By outcome — last 7 days

accepted 10 #526 (MERGED)

committed 6 #523 (OPEN), #522 (OPEN)

open_loop 9

no_repo 130

Effectiveness — last 30 days

Where delegated work shipped (top) vs. where high burn never crossed an acceptance line (bottom). Bars: accepted · unsettled · waste. Normalized to the widest project in window.

Leverage — most accepted

Project	Accepted	Ratio
payday	46.2M	86%
dreamweaver	12.7M	47%
panacea-ai	5.1M	30%
command-center	1.3M	90%
workshopping	1.3M	82%
pal	731K	35%

Waste candidates — lowest acceptance ratio (≥100K active)

Project	Accepted	Ratio	Mix
<home>	0	0%
las	0	0%
wasatch-valley-fence	0	0%
wasatch-digital-assets-site	0	0%
memory	0	0%
payday-website-landlord-wt	0	0%

Needs validation — last 14 days (35 unsettled)

Sessions where auto-classification couldn't tell shipped work from waste. Highest-burn first. Manually label these with `label: "used"|"partial"|"redo"|"review"|"not_useful"` in token_burn.jsonl to override the auto verdict.

Date	Project	Session	Active	Auto	cwd
2026-08-06	dreamweaver	006e4690	3.6M	committed · #522 (OPEN)	.../dreamweaver
2026-08-04	dreamweaver	77b8f03c	2.2M	committed · #522 (OPEN)	.../dreamweaver
2026-08-01	panacea-ai	ded95beb	2.2M	open_loop	.../panacea-ai/pitch
2026-08-01	panacea-ai	2b1c0e9c	1.5M	open_loop	.../panacea-ai
2026-08-01	pal	2b1c0e9c	1.3M	open_loop	.../pal
2026-08-07	dreamweaver	f326bd69	1.3M	committed · #523 (OPEN)	.../dreamweaver
2026-08-02	panacea-ai	ded95beb	1.2M	open_loop	.../panacea-ai/pitch
2026-08-01	panacea-ai	30446ba4	1.0M	open_loop	.../panacea-ai
2026-08-09	dreamweaver	d476d902	1.0M	open_loop	.../dreamweaver
2026-08-02	las	eec515e0	799K	committed	.../las/.worktrees/mvp
2026-07-30	dreamweaver	b4088fed	666K	open_loop	.../dreamweaver
2026-08-04	panacea-ai	2fba23ce	543K	open_loop	.../panacea-ai
2026-08-06	memory	ec185e82	473K	open_loop	/home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory
2026-08-02	panacea-ai	2fba23ce	398K	open_loop	.../panacea-ai
2026-07-31	pal/extensions	435504fa	368K	open_loop	.../pal/extensions/meta-twilio
2026-07-31	ai_workflow	435504fa	350K	open_loop	.../ai_workflow
2026-07-30	workshopping	b4088fed	280K	open_loop	.../workshopping/site/sites/epochtraining.ai/admin
2026-07-31	pal/voice-agent	435504fa	236K	open_loop	.../pal/voice-agent
2026-08-06	dreamweaver	ec185e82	231K	committed · #522 (OPEN)	.../dreamweaver
2026-07-31	pal-fabric	435504fa	220K	open_loop	.../pal-fabric
2026-08-08	memory	1a653de6	219K	open_loop	/home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory
2026-08-04	payday	d2272a4a	183K	open_loop	.../payday/yt_affiliate/production/animation_handoff/voiceover
2026-07-31	pal/memory	d8fee14c	178K	open_loop	.../pal/memory
2026-08-07	command-center	6eb17f09	150K	open_loop	.../command-center
2026-08-07	memory	6eb17f09	149K	open_loop	/home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory

Recent events — last 30 rows

Latest enriched rows from the JSONL (sorted by date desc, active desc as tiebreaker). M = manually labeled.

Date	Tool	Project	Session	Active	Output	Outcome
2026-08-09	CC	dreamweaver	d476d902	1.0M	18K	open_loop
2026-08-09	CC	.openclaw	d476d902	40K	12K	no_repo
2026-08-09	CC	<home>	617a57bf	33K	860	no_repo
2026-08-09	CC	<home>	dcb4b4b5	33K	836	no_repo
2026-08-09	CC	<home>	2251dcfc	33K	722	no_repo
2026-08-09	CC	<home>	8ae8afac	33K	488	no_repo
2026-08-09	CC	<home>	e485d03e	33K	620	no_repo
2026-08-09	CC	<home>	933b8391	32K	500	no_repo
2026-08-09	CC	<home>	bc36d2a1	32K	768	no_repo
2026-08-09	CC	<home>	33095f53	30K	1K	no_repo
2026-08-09	CC	<home>	90ac8641	30K	794	no_repo
2026-08-09	CC	<home>	49f1da71	30K	774	no_repo
2026-08-09	CC	<home>	fb89d822	29K	910	no_repo
2026-08-09	CC	<home>	1733349b	29K	722	no_repo
2026-08-09	CC	package	d476d902	14K	6K	no_repo
2026-08-09	CC	<home>	d476d902	11K	5K	no_repo
2026-08-09	CC	ar	d476d902	7K	3K	no_repo
2026-08-08	CC	dreamweaver	f326bd69	1.6M	117K	accepted #526
2026-08-08	CC	dreamweaver	d476d902	1.1M	171K	accepted #526
2026-08-08	CC	<home>	d476d902	797K	23K	no_repo
2026-08-08	CC	pal	f326bd69	457K	218K	accepted
2026-08-08	CC	<home>	7a4beaaa	448K	8K	no_repo
2026-08-08	CC	dreamweaver	1a653de6	300K	140K	accepted #526
2026-08-08	CC	<home>	1a653de6	241K	37K	no_repo
2026-08-08	CC	memory	1a653de6	219K	80K	open_loop
2026-08-08	CC	gpu-bench	1a653de6	117K	54K	no_repo
2026-08-08	CC	wt-cifix	d476d902	60K	24K	accepted #526
2026-08-08	CC	dreamweaver	7a4beaaa	41K	14K	accepted #526
2026-08-08	CC	<home>	26880565	33K	1K	no_repo
2026-08-08	CC	<home>	4a841aa2	33K	922	no_repo

Generated 2026-08-09 18:00 UTC from ~/ideas/pal/dashboards/token_burn.jsonl (989 rows). Sources: ~/.codex/sessions/ (exact), ~/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/ (exact). No estimate lane currently active.