Burn is not proof. Output is not victory. Accepted work that repeats is leverage.
pal accepted 3.7M.pal/dashboards accepted 1.7M.memory accepted 606K.pal/templari accepted 427K.las has a 0.0 acceptance_ratio, despite 1.1M in unsettled tokens.<home> has a 0.0 acceptance_ratio; the note states this is unmeasurable because it ran outside any git repo.dreamweaver has a 0.0 acceptance_ratio, with 2.3M in unsettled tokens.<home> directory accounts for the largest waste volume at 26.4M.A subagent spawn forks its parent, so the child starts holding the parent's whole transcript and the same conversation is charged once per fork, on every turn. The root 019fee2e-1781 spawned 13 threads and 12 forks, reaching a max depth of 2, costing 579.6M, with a replay_pct of 95.7% and an output_h of 1.8M. The agents involved were Averroes, Copernicus, Faraday, Galileo, Halley, and Hooke.
dreamweaver (session_id: d476d902, date: 2026-08-14, cwd_tail: dreamweaver/.worktrees/deploy-main): suggested_verdict is review. (open_loop, 2.2M burn — worth looking)las (session_id: 156eb19a, date: 2026-08-19, cwd_tail: las/.worktrees/mvp): suggested_verdict is review. (open_loop, 1.1M burn — worth looking)pal (session_id: 83ba2858, date: 2026-08-17, cwd_tail: pal): suggested_verdict is not_useful. (open_loop, 388K burn — small miss)panacea-ai (session_id: 83ba2858, date: 2026-08-16, cwd_tail: panacea-ai): suggested_verdict is not_useful. (open_loop, 53K burn — small miss)dreamweaver (session_id: 83ba2858, date: 2026-08-16, cwd_tail: dreamweaver): suggested_verdict is not_useful. (open_loop, 41K burn — small miss)dreamweaver (session_id: 5af22ad7, date: 2026-08-19, cwd_tail: dreamweaver): suggested_verdict is not_useful. (open_loop, 25K burn — small miss)memory (session_id: 83ba2858, date: 2026-08-15, cwd_tail: /home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory): suggested_verdict is not_useful. (open_loop, 6K burn — small miss)The <home> directory shows 26.4M in waste_active_h, yet the acceptance_ratio is 0.0 because the note states this work is unmeasurable.
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Measurability caveat (generated, not model-authored): <home> (26.4M), tmp (867K) ran outside any git repo. There is no diff to credit, so a 0.0 acceptance ratio there is the meter failing to see the work — not a judgement on it. Only ratios on measurable: true projects are verdicts.
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.
Each cell = one UTC day, color intensity = log10(active tokens). Hover for date + counts.
| Date | Active | Spend | Sessions | Top project | Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-28 | 34.5M | 1.78B | 47 | <home> (29.6M) | ?=50 |
| 2026-08-01 | 24.5M | 1.57B | 10 | payday (6.1M) | ?=20 |
| 2026-07-16 | 23.3M | 797.0M | 24 | <home> (16.3M) | ?=27 |
| 2026-07-31 | 23.1M | 2.10B | 9 | payday (8.1M) | ?=34 |
| 2026-08-18 | 22.3M | 554.5M | 38 | <home> (21.6M) | no_repo=38 · accepted=5 · PRs #27 |
| 2026-07-21 | 21.5M | 437.6M | 27 | <home> (10.6M) | ?=32 |
| 2026-07-30 | 19.4M | 645.3M | 26 | payday (16.5M) | ?=31 |
| 2026-08-06 | 16.5M | 592.1M | 51 | <home> (12.0M) | no_repo=51 · accepted=7 · PRs #522 |
| 2026-07-29 | 11.2M | 118.2M | 25 | payday (10.8M) | ?=27 |
| 2026-07-24 | 10.8M | 403.2M | 26 | las (5.9M) | ?=28 |
| Project | Active | |
|---|---|---|
| <home> | 26.4M | |
| pal | 4.1M | |
| dreamweaver | 2.3M | |
| pal/dashboards | 1.7M | |
| las | 1.1M | |
| tmp | 867K | |
| memory | 612K | |
| pal/templari | 427K | |
| .claude | 60K | |
| panacea-ai | 53K | |
| hooks | 25K | |
| 18 | 18K |
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.
| Project | Accepted | Ratio | Mix |
|---|---|---|---|
| dreamweaver | 8.3M | 24% | |
| pal | 4.4M | 71% | |
| pal/dashboards | 1.7M | 100% | |
| memory | 1.5M | 54% | |
| pal/templari | 427K | 100% | |
| wt-cifix | 60K | 100% |
| Project | Accepted | Ratio | Mix |
|---|---|---|---|
| <home> | 0 | 0% | |
| payday | 0 | 0% | |
| panacea-ai | 0 | 0% | |
| las | 0 | 0% | |
| wasatch-valley-fence | 0 | 0% | |
| pal/placeholders | 0 | 0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-12 | dreamweaver | d476d902 | 6.5M | open_loop | .../dreamweaver/.worktrees/deploy-main |
| 2026-08-09 | dreamweaver | d476d902 | 3.4M | open_loop | .../dreamweaver |
| 2026-08-14 | dreamweaver | d476d902 | 2.2M | open_loop | .../dreamweaver/.worktrees/deploy-main |
| 2026-08-10 | pal/placeholders | d476d902 | 1.8M | open_loop | .../pal/placeholders |
| 2026-08-10 | dreamweaver | d476d902 | 1.6M | open_loop | .../dreamweaver |
| 2026-08-12 | pal/placeholders | d476d902 | 1.2M | open_loop | .../pal/placeholders |
| 2026-08-19 | las | 156eb19a | 1.1M | open_loop | .../las/.worktrees/mvp |
| 2026-08-17 | pal | 83ba2858 | 388K | open_loop | .../pal |
| 2026-08-07 | command-center | 6eb17f09 | 150K | open_loop | .../command-center |
| 2026-08-07 | server | 6eb17f09 | 72K | open_loop | /home/khoward/src/OB1/server |
| 2026-08-16 | panacea-ai | 83ba2858 | 53K | open_loop | .../panacea-ai |
| 2026-08-16 | dreamweaver | 83ba2858 | 41K | open_loop | .../dreamweaver |
| 2026-08-19 | dreamweaver | 5af22ad7 | 25K | open_loop | .../dreamweaver |
| 2026-08-15 | memory | 83ba2858 | 6K | open_loop | /home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory |
Latest enriched rows from the JSONL (sorted by date desc, active desc as tiebreaker). M = manually labeled.
| Date | Tool | Project | Session | Active | Output | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-19 | CC | pal/dashboards | 5af22ad7 | 1.6M | 111K | accepted |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | pal | 5af22ad7 | 1.3M | 242K | accepted |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | las | 156eb19a | 1.1M | 76K | open_loop |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | pal/templari | 156eb19a | 134K | 64K | accepted |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | <home> | 5af22ad7 | 82K | 34K | no_repo |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | memory | 5af22ad7 | 64K | 25K | accepted |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | .claude | 5af22ad7 | 60K | 32K | no_repo |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | pal | 156eb19a | 52K | 23K | accepted |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | hooks | 5af22ad7 | 25K | 10K | no_repo |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | dreamweaver | 5af22ad7 | 25K | 11K | open_loop |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | 18 | 5af22ad7 | 14K | 8K | no_repo |
| 2026-08-19 | Codex | <home> | 01a0172e | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | <home> | 1ebc93f6 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | <home> | 292b89f1 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | <home> | 3108df60 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | <home> | 6929dadb | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | <home> | 73ceb415 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | <home> | 87582ba7 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | <home> | 88a4b4ae | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | <home> | 8f5f9238 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | <home> | 93026bac | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | <home> | a52a374e | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | <home> | c95c9288 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | <home> | f5967ad5 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-18 | Codex | <home> | 01a013da | 2.9M | 201K | no_repo |
| 2026-08-18 | Codex | <home> | 01a013da | 2.6M | 205K | no_repo |
| 2026-08-18 | Codex | <home> | 01a013da | 2.5M | 195K | no_repo |
| 2026-08-18 | Codex | <home> | 01a013e7 | 2.1M | 179K | no_repo |
| 2026-08-18 | Codex | <home> | 01a01357 | 1.9M | 123K | no_repo |
| 2026-08-18 | Codex | <home> | 01a013bf | 1.7M | 129K | no_repo |
Generated 2026-08-19 13:00 UTC from ~/ideas/pal/dashboards/token_burn.jsonl (1002 rows). Sources: ~/.codex/sessions/ (exact), ~/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/ (exact). No estimate lane currently active.