Token Burn

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

today · in flight

0 active

13 sessions · spend 0 · Claude Code 0
by project: <home> 0
top session 0848c625 (<home>, 0, —)

2026-08-15
as of 2026-08-15T13:00:33Z

Stupid button · 30m ago · gemma4:e4b · 2760t in / 528t out · 89.6s

Trend vs last week

Accepted tokens are DOWN 12.1M (-100.0%) compared to last week.
Unsettled tokens are UP 13.4M (396.5%) compared to last week.
Waste tokens are DOWN 18.8M (-85.8%) compared to last week.

What worked

No projects show any accepted active burn this week.

What wasted tokens

<home> shows a waste of 2.2M, with an acceptance ratio of 0.0.
tmp contributes 787K in waste, maintaining a 0.0 acceptance ratio.
dreamweaver has 0 waste recorded, but the largest unsettled burn is present.

What needs a verdict

dreamweaver + d476d902 + 2026-08-12 + dreamweaver/.worktrees/deploy-main: "review" (open_loop, 6.5M burn — worth looking)
dreamweaver + d476d902 + 2026-08-09 + dreamweaver: "review" (open_loop, 3.4M burn — worth looking)
dreamweaver + d476d902 + 2026-08-14 + dreamweaver/.worktrees/deploy-main: "review" (open_loop, 2.2M burn — worth looking)
pal/placeholders + d476d902 + 2026-08-10 + pal/placeholders: "review" (open_loop, 1.8M burn — worth looking)
dreamweaver + d476d902 + 2026-08-10 + dreamweaver: "review" (open_loop, 1.6M burn — worth looking)
pal/placeholders + d476d902 + 2026-08-12 + pal/placeholders: "review" (open_loop, 1.2M burn — worth looking)

One contrarian observation

The dreamweaver project has the highest unsettled volume at 13.8M across multiple sessions, yet its acceptance ratio is 0.0.

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

0 accepted

unsettled 16.7M · acceptance 0%

spend 402.1M · 159 sessions · Claude Code 18.5M / Codex 1.4M

Last 30 days

12.1M accepted

unsettled 209.0M · acceptance 5%

spend 9.66B · 638 sessions · Claude Code 204.5M / Codex 41.5M

Last 90 days

12.1M accepted

unsettled 275.6M · acceptance 4%

spend 11.19B · 774 sessions · Claude Code 216.6M / Codex 96.0M

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
2026-07-16	24.7M	800.9M	41	<home> (17.7M)	?=44
2026-08-01	24.5M	1.57B	10	payday (6.1M)	?=20
2026-07-31	23.1M	2.10B	9	payday (8.1M)	?=34
2026-07-21	21.5M	437.6M	27	<home> (10.6M)	?=32
2026-07-30	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
2026-07-23	9.5M	347.9M	27	panacea-ai (5.0M)	?=29

By project — last 7 days

Project	Active
dreamweaver	13.8M
pal/placeholders	3.0M
<home>	2.2M
tmp	787K
.openclaw	40K
package	14K
wt-deploy	11K
ar	7K

By outcome — last 7 days

open_loop 6

no_repo 164

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	10.5M	30%
las	799K	4%
pal	731K	35%
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%
wasatch-digital-assets-site	0	0%
pal/placeholders	0	0%

Needs validation — last 14 days (16 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
2026-08-02	panacea-ai	ded95beb	1.2M	open_loop	.../panacea-ai/pitch
2026-08-12	pal/placeholders	d476d902	1.2M	open_loop	.../pal/placeholders
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
2026-08-08	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
2026-08-07	command-center	6eb17f09	150K	open_loop	.../command-center
2026-08-07	memory	6eb17f09	149K	open_loop	/home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory
2026-08-07	server	6eb17f09	72K	open_loop	/home/khoward/src/OB1/server
2026-08-06	memory	006e4690	10K	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
2026-08-15	CC	<home>	0848c625	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-15	CC	<home>	1bb92c79	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-15	CC	<home>	2487f46e	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-15	CC	<home>	2b155955	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-15	CC	<home>	664b773d	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-15	CC	<home>	85df5a3e	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-15	CC	<home>	96bdad86	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-15	CC	<home>	c8aa7c7f	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-15	CC	<home>	d499be7a	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-15	CC	<home>	e441d347	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-15	CC	<home>	e77f2644	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-15	CC	<home>	f4dccab6	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-14	CC	dreamweaver	d476d902	2.2M	82K	open_loop
2026-08-14	CC	tmp	d476d902	787K	22K	no_repo
2026-08-14	CC	<home>	83ba2858	300K	8K	no_repo
2026-08-14	CC	<home>	1baa2172	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-14	CC	<home>	288a0bce	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-14	CC	<home>	2ba1d2de	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-14	CC	<home>	4ac35dbc	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-14	CC	<home>	4b56346c	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-14	CC	<home>	573a6c50	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-14	CC	<home>	5fb9a6da	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-14	CC	<home>	6b83d559	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-14	CC	<home>	7baa7c27	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-14	CC	<home>	7c53dc59	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-14	CC	<home>	9240d37b	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-14	CC	<home>	96ae8474	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-14	CC	<home>	a0b16b4a	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-14	CC	<home>	a2ac3c1a	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-14	CC	<home>	afe6a3fb	0	0	no_repo

Generated 2026-08-15 13:00 UTC from ~/ideas/pal/dashboards/token_burn.jsonl (930 rows). Sources: ~/.codex/sessions/ (exact), ~/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/ (exact). No estimate lane currently active.