Token Burn

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

today · in flight

15.4M active

19 sessions · spend 404.4M · Codex 14.9M / Claude Code 474K
by project: <home> 14.9M · pal 400K · pal/templari 74K
top session 01a013bf (<home>, 4.9M, —)

2026-08-18
as of 2026-08-18T13:00:22Z

Stupid button · 28m ago · gemma4:e4b · 3406t in / 690t out · 95.2s

Trend vs last week

Accepted tokens are down 7.1M (-77.9%) vs last week.
Unsettled tokens are up 3.4M (43.2%) vs last week.
Waste tokens are up 5.7M (27.8%) vs last week.

What worked

pal shipped 1.8M accepted tokens.
pal/templari shipped 180K accepted tokens.

What wasted tokens

<home> is the primary waste source, contributing 25.2M waste tokens with an acceptance ratio of 0.0.
The <home> project alone accounts for 25.2M waste tokens.
dreamweaver has a high volume of unsettled work (8.7M) but no accepted work.

What needs a verdict

dreamweaver + d476d902 + 2026-08-12 + dreamweaver/.worktrees/deploy-main: suggested_verdict is "review". (open_loop, 6.5M burn — worth looking)
dreamweaver + d476d902 + 2026-08-14 + dreamweaver/.worktrees/deploy-main: suggested_verdict is "review". (open_loop, 2.2M burn — worth looking)
pal/placeholders + d476d902 + 2026-08-12 + pal/placeholders: suggested_verdict is "review". (open_loop, 1.2M burn — worth looking)
memory + 83ba2858 + 2026-08-16 + /home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory: suggested_verdict is "review". (open_loop, 542K burn — worth looking)
pal + 83ba2858 + 2026-08-18 + pal: suggested_verdict is "review". (PR open — work in flight)
pal + 83ba2858 + 2026-08-17 + pal: suggested_verdict is "not_useful". (open_loop, 388K burn — small miss)
pal/templari + 83ba2858 + 2026-08-18 + pal/templari: suggested_verdict is "review". (PR open — work in flight)
panacea-ai + 83ba2858 + 2026-08-16 + panacea-ai: suggested_verdict is "not_useful". (open_loop, 53K burn — small miss)

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

2.0M accepted

unsettled 11.4M · acceptance 5%

spend 856.8M · 164 sessions · Codex 23.6M / Claude Code 15.8M

Last 30 days

11.1M accepted

unsettled 199.1M · acceptance 4%

spend 10.12B · 643 sessions · Claude Code 191.5M / Codex 65.2M

Last 90 days

11.1M accepted

unsettled 276.7M · acceptance 3%

spend 11.83B · 766 sessions · Claude Code 215.3M / Codex 119.0M

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)	?=32
2026-08-01	24.5M	1.57B	10	payday (6.1M)	?=20
2026-07-16	23.3M	797.0M	15	<home> (16.3M)	?=18
2026-07-31	23.1M	2.10B	9	payday (8.1M)	?=34
2026-07-21	21.5M	437.6M	27	<home> (10.6M)	?=32
2026-08-18	21.0M	534.8M	19	<home> (20.5M)	no_repo=18 · committed=2 · PRs #27
2026-07-30	19.4M	645.3M	26	payday (16.5M)	?=31
2026-08-06	16.5M	592.1M	36	<home> (12.0M)	no_repo=36 · accepted=5 · open_loop=2 · 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

By project — last 7 days

Project	Active
<home>	25.2M
dreamweaver	8.7M
pal	2.6M
pal/placeholders	1.2M
tmp	867K
memory	548K
pal/templari	254K
panacea-ai	53K
wt-deploy	11K

By outcome — last 7 days

accepted 2 #26 (MERGED)

committed 2 #27 (OPEN)

open_loop 8

no_repo 170

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
dreamweaver	8.3M	24%
pal	2.6M	54%
pal/templari	180K	71%
wt-cifix	60K	100%
pal/memory	22K	11%
pal/bin	1K	100%

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

Project	Accepted	Ratio	Mix
<home>	0	0%
payday	0	0%
panacea-ai	0	0%
wasatch-valley-fence	0	0%
las	0	0%
wasatch-digital-assets-site	0	0%

Needs validation — last 14 days (19 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
2026-08-12	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
2026-08-16	memory	83ba2858	542K	open_loop	/home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory
2026-08-06	memory	ec185e82	473K	open_loop	/home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory
2026-08-18	pal	83ba2858	400K	committed · #27 (OPEN)	.../pal
2026-08-17	pal	83ba2858	388K	open_loop	.../pal
2026-08-08	memory	1a653de6	219K	open_loop	/home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/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
2026-08-18	pal/templari	83ba2858	74K	committed · #27 (OPEN)	.../pal/templari
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
2026-08-06	memory	006e4690	10K	open_loop	/home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory
2026-08-15	memory	83ba2858	6K	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
2026-08-18	Codex	<home>	019fee2e	5.5M	450K	no_repo
2026-08-18	Codex	<home>	01a013bf	4.9M	343K	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	CC	pal	83ba2858	400K	5K	committed #27
2026-08-18	CC	pal/templari	83ba2858	74K	22K	committed #27
2026-08-18	CC	<home>	187368dc	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-18	CC	<home>	1c793fb7	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-18	CC	<home>	2e8ac25c	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-18	CC	<home>	351ee58e	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-18	CC	<home>	3cb8cdec	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-18	CC	<home>	400aa657	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-18	CC	<home>	77065d3f	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-18	CC	<home>	87fa4d01	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-18	CC	<home>	8c47fc33	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-18	CC	<home>	be0aafd2	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-18	CC	<home>	f8b45e2f	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-18	CC	<home>	f9c3e874	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-17	Codex	<home>	019fee2e	3.1M	105K	no_repo
2026-08-17	CC	pal	83ba2858	388K	3K	open_loop
2026-08-17	CC	<home>	0d962db5	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-17	CC	<home>	0dd7a091	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-17	CC	<home>	10649161	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-17	CC	<home>	194c9ce7	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-17	CC	<home>	2363bbb4	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-17	CC	<home>	278340a1	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-17	CC	<home>	3cd84a7c	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-17	CC	<home>	44f7b749	0	0	no_repo

Generated 2026-08-18 13:00 UTC from ~/ideas/pal/dashboards/token_burn.jsonl (931 rows). Sources: ~/.codex/sessions/ (exact), ~/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/ (exact). No estimate lane currently active.