Burn is not proof. Output is not victory. Accepted work that repeats is leverage.
las shows a 0.0 acceptance ratio, and its waste is 0.0.mainstay-av shows a 0.0 acceptance ratio, and its waste is 0.0.<home> project has an acceptance ratio of 0.0, and its waste is 1.4M.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 01a04b01-5edc used 4 threads and 3 forks, with a max depth of 1, charging 23.8M, and has a cost per output of 271.0. The agents involved were Chandrasekhar, Harvey, and James.
las (session_id: 5af22ad7, date: 2026-08-30, cwd_tail: las/.worktrees/mvp): suggested verdict is redo. (committed locally, no PR — decision needed)las (session_id: 5af22ad7, date: 2026-08-29, cwd_tail: las/.worktrees/mvp): suggested verdict is redo. (committed locally, no PR — decision needed)mainstay-av (session_id: 5af22ad7, date: 2026-08-29, cwd_tail: mainstay-av/docs/entity): suggested verdict is review. (open_loop, 1.6M burn — worth looking)las (session_id: d33e7f08, date: 2026-08-28, cwd_tail: las): suggested verdict is review. (PR open — work in flight)pal/templari (session_id: d33e7f08, date: 2026-08-28, cwd_tail: pal/templari): suggested verdict is not_useful. (open_loop, 4K burn — small miss)pal (session_id: d33e7f08, date: 2026-08-28, cwd_tail: pal): suggested verdict is not_useful. (open_loop, 2K burn — small miss)The <home> project has 1.4M waste_active_h, but its acceptance_ratio is 0.0, and its acceptance_note 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> (1.4M) 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 | 42 | <home> (29.6M) | ?=45 |
| 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 |
| 2026-07-30 | 19.4M | 645.3M | 26 | payday (16.5M) | ?=31 |
| 2026-07-21 | 18.3M | 337.5M | 2 | <home> (9.1M) | ?=4 |
| 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 | 10.3M | 401.9M | 2 | las (5.9M) | ?=4 |
| Project | Active | |
|---|---|---|
| las | 6.6M | |
| mainstay-av | 1.6M | |
| <home> | 1.4M | |
| pal/templari | 4K | |
| pal | 2K |
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 | 2.8M | 36% | |
| pal/dashboards | 1.7M | 100% | |
| las | 1.4M | 15% | |
| pal/templari | 247K | 56% | |
| memory | 64K | 4% | |
| mainstay-av | 0 | 0% |
| Project | Accepted | Ratio | Mix |
|---|---|---|---|
| <home> | 0 | 0% | |
| dreamweaver | 0 | 0% | |
| mainstay-av | 0 | 0% | |
| pal/placeholders | 0 | 0% | |
| panacea-ai | 0 | 0% | |
| tmp | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-30 | las | 5af22ad7 | 4.2M | committed | .../las/.worktrees/mvp |
| 2026-08-24 | mainstay-av | 5af22ad7 | 1.8M | open_loop | .../mainstay-av/docs/entity |
| 2026-08-22 | mainstay-av | 5af22ad7 | 1.8M | open_loop | .../mainstay-av/docs/entity |
| 2026-08-29 | las | 5af22ad7 | 1.7M | committed | .../las/.worktrees/mvp |
| 2026-08-29 | mainstay-av | 5af22ad7 | 1.6M | open_loop | .../mainstay-av/docs/entity |
| 2026-08-21 | pal | 5af22ad7 | 1.4M | open_loop | .../pal |
| 2026-08-28 | las | d33e7f08 | 689K | committed · #17 (OPEN) | .../las |
| 2026-08-20 | pal | 5af22ad7 | 476K | open_loop | .../pal |
| 2026-08-21 | mainstay-av | 5af22ad7 | 233K | open_loop | .../mainstay-av/docs/entity |
| 2026-08-24 | las | d33e7f08 | 146K | open_loop | .../las |
| 2026-08-23 | pal | d33e7f08 | 68K | open_loop | .../pal |
| 2026-08-24 | mainstay-av | d33e7f08 | 28K | open_loop | .../mainstay-av/apps/worker |
| 2026-08-24 | pal | d33e7f08 | 27K | open_loop | .../pal |
| 2026-08-24 | templari | d33e7f08 | 27K | open_loop | .../templari |
| 2026-08-19 | dreamweaver | 5af22ad7 | 25K | open_loop | .../dreamweaver |
| 2026-08-23 | memory | d33e7f08 | 23K | open_loop | /home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory |
| 2026-08-23 | pal/memory | d33e7f08 | 14K | open_loop | .../pal/memory |
| 2026-08-23 | pal/templari | d33e7f08 | 11K | open_loop | .../pal/templari |
| 2026-08-28 | pal/templari | d33e7f08 | 4K | open_loop | .../pal/templari |
| 2026-08-28 | pal | d33e7f08 | 2K | open_loop | .../pal |
| 2026-08-23 | ideas | d33e7f08 | 2K | open_loop | /home/khoward/ideas |
Latest enriched rows from the JSONL (sorted by date desc, active desc as tiebreaker). M = manually labeled.
| Date | Tool | Project | Session | Active | Output | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-31 | CC | <home> | 030b8d51 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-31 | CC | <home> | 06c60690 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-31 | CC | <home> | 36b470a9 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-31 | CC | <home> | 37d89803 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-31 | CC | <home> | 391cdd0f | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-31 | CC | <home> | 3efd06cf | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-31 | CC | <home> | 5d3dd1ce | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-31 | CC | <home> | 7bd0a906 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-31 | CC | <home> | b7ffc942 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-31 | CC | <home> | c0a6f499 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-31 | CC | <home> | dd9adc67 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-31 | CC | <home> | ee8add96 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-30 | CC | las | 5af22ad7 | 4.2M | 90K | committed |
| 2026-08-30 | CC | <home> | 089a4d79 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-30 | CC | <home> | 08a72c41 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-30 | CC | <home> | 129e232d | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-30 | CC | <home> | 1f8a3754 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-30 | CC | <home> | 21007b4c | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-30 | CC | <home> | 222eafc1 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-30 | CC | <home> | 27b279ff | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-30 | CC | <home> | 2c0307ee | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-30 | CC | <home> | 3a5d0071 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-30 | CC | <home> | 3daeb4cd | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-30 | CC | <home> | 425a3025 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-30 | CC | <home> | 45fcb438 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-30 | CC | <home> | 5b1054d0 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-30 | CC | <home> | 6f819104 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-30 | CC | <home> | 7888f9fa | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-30 | CC | <home> | 7f365d9a | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-30 | CC | <home> | 849787bd | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
Generated 2026-08-31 12:55 UTC from ~/ideas/pal/dashboards/token_burn.jsonl (1052 rows). Sources: ~/.codex/sessions/ (exact), ~/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/ (exact). No estimate lane currently active.