Burn is not proof. Output is not victory. Accepted work that repeats is leverage.
pal: 4.6M accepted_active_h.pal/dashboards: 1.7M accepted_active_h.las: 1.4M accepted_active_h.dreamweaver: 0.0 acceptance_ratio. Note: UNMEASURABLE — ran outside any git repo, so 0.0 is the meter failing to see the work, not a judgement on it.<home>: 0.0 acceptance_ratio. Note: UNMEASURABLE — ran outside any git repo, so 0.0 is the meter failing to see the work, not a judgement on it.tmp: 0.0 acceptance_ratio. Note: UNMEASURABLE — ran outside any git repo, so 0.0 is the meter failing to see the work, not a judgement on it.<home>: Largest waste volume is 26.4M waste_active_h.tmp: Waste volume is 867K waste_active_h.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 involved 13 threads, 12 forks, and a max_depth of 2, charging 579.6M charged_h. The agents involved were Averroes, Copernicus, Faraday, Galileo, Halley, and Hooke.
dreamweaver + d476d902 + 2026-08-14 + dreamweaver/.worktrees/deploy-main: suggested_verdict is review. (verdict_reason: open_loop, 2.2M burn — worth looking)pal + 83ba2858 + 2026-08-17 + pal: suggested_verdict is not_useful. (verdict_reason: open_loop, 388K burn — small miss)panacea-ai + 83ba2858 + 2026-08-16 + panacea-ai: suggested_verdict is not_useful. (verdict_reason: open_loop, 53K burn — small miss)dreamweaver + 83ba2858 + 2026-08-16 + dreamweaver: suggested_verdict is not_useful. (verdict_reason: open_loop, 41K burn — small miss)dreamweaver + 5af22ad7 + 2026-08-19 + dreamweaver: suggested_verdict is not_useful. (verdict_reason: open_loop, 25K burn — small miss)memory + 83ba2858 + 2026-08-15 + /home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory: suggested_verdict is not_useful. (verdict_reason: open_loop, 6K burn — small miss)The <home> project shows 26.4M waste_active_h, but its acceptance_ratio is 0.0 because it is UNMEASURABLE — ran outside any git repo, so 0.0 is the meter failing to see the work, not a judgement on it.
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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) | ?=58 |
| 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 | 5.0M | |
| dreamweaver | 2.3M | |
| pal/dashboards | 1.7M | |
| las | 1.4M | |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| pal | 5.1M | 72% | |
| dreamweaver | 4.5M | 13% | |
| pal/dashboards | 1.7M | 100% | |
| las | 1.4M | 14% | |
| memory | 974K | 63% | |
| pal/templari | 427K | 100% |
| Project | Accepted | Ratio | Mix |
|---|---|---|---|
| <home> | 0 | 0% | |
| payday | 0 | 0% | |
| panacea-ai | 0 | 0% | |
| pal/placeholders | 0 | 0% | |
| workshopping | 0 | 0% | |
| command-center | 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 |
| 2026-08-17 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-20 | CC | <home> | 121e6855 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-20 | CC | <home> | 254d89af | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-20 | CC | <home> | 38e4bbde | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-20 | CC | <home> | 3f575425 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-20 | CC | <home> | 4bbc80b2 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-20 | CC | <home> | 82c4ffc0 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-20 | CC | <home> | 95a0851f | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-20 | CC | <home> | a20c2111 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-20 | CC | <home> | beffb6e7 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-20 | CC | <home> | ee40eb2b | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-20 | CC | <home> | f39189a6 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-20 | CC | <home> | f957f5d7 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | pal/dashboards | 5af22ad7 | 1.6M | 111K | accepted #32 |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | las | 156eb19a | 1.4M | 83K | accepted #16 |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | pal | 5af22ad7 | 1.3M | 242K | accepted #32 |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | pal | 156eb19a | 994K | 56K | accepted #32 |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | pal/templari | 156eb19a | 134K | 64K | accepted #32 |
| 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 | 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> | 05f5dc32 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | <home> | 1905e20a | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | <home> | 1ebc93f6 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | <home> | 28d5fd50 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | <home> | 292b89f1 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-19 | CC | <home> | 3108df60 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
Generated 2026-08-20 13:00 UTC from ~/ideas/pal/dashboards/token_burn.jsonl (999 rows). Sources: ~/.codex/sessions/ (exact), ~/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/ (exact). No estimate lane currently active.