Burn is not proof. Output is not victory. Accepted work that repeats is leverage.
<home> project shows 0.0 acceptance ratio, and the note states: "UNMEASURABLE — ran outside any git repo, so 0.0 is the meter failing to see the work, not a judgement on it". It accounts for 2.2M in waste_active_h.las has an acceptance_ratio of 0.0.mainstay-av has an acceptance_ratio of 0.0.las (0.0 ratio).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 with 4 threads and 3 forks, max_depth 1, charged 23.8M_h, and has a cost_per_output of 271.0. The agents involved are Chandrasekhar, Harvey, and James.
mainstay-av + 5af22ad7 + 2026-08-24 + mainstay-av/docs/entity + 1.8M: suggested_verdict is review. (open_loop, 1.8M burn — worth looking)las + d33e7f08 + 2026-08-28 + las + 689K: suggested_verdict is review. (PR open — work in flight)las + d33e7f08 + 2026-08-24 + las + 146K: suggested_verdict is not_useful. (open_loop, 146K burn — small miss)pal + d33e7f08 + 2026-08-23 + pal + 68K: suggested_verdict is not_useful. (open_loop, 68K burn — small miss)mainstay-av + d33e7f08 + 2026-08-24 + mainstay-av/apps/worker + 28K: suggested_verdict is not_useful. (open_loop, 28K burn — small miss)pal + d33e7f08 + 2026-08-24 + pal + 27K: suggested_verdict is not_useful. (open_loop, 27K burn — small miss)templari + d33e7f08 + 2026-08-24 + templari + 27K: suggested_verdict is not_useful. (open_loop, 27K burn — small miss)memory + d33e7f08 + 2026-08-23 + /home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory + 23K: suggested_verdict is not_useful. (open_loop, 23K burn — small miss)The <home> project shows 2.2M in waste_active_h, but this is unmeasurable because it ran outside any git repo, as per the acceptance_note.
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Measurability caveat (generated, not model-authored): <home> (2.2M) 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| <home> | 2.2M | |
| mainstay-av | 1.8M | |
| las | 835K | |
| pal | 97K | |
| Downloads | 83K | |
| templari | 27K | |
| memory | 23K | |
| pal/templari | 14K | |
| pal/memory | 14K | |
| ideas | 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 | 4.6M | 51% | |
| pal/dashboards | 1.7M | 100% | |
| las | 1.4M | 45% | |
| memory | 606K | 40% | |
| pal/templari | 427K | 97% | |
| mainstay-av | 0 | 0% |
| Project | Accepted | Ratio | Mix |
|---|---|---|---|
| dreamweaver | 0 | 0% | |
| <home> | 0 | 0% | |
| payday | 0 | 0% | |
| panacea-ai | 0 | 0% | |
| mainstay-av | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-24 | 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 |
| 2026-08-21 | 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 |
| 2026-08-17 | pal | 83ba2858 | 388K | 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 |
| 2026-08-16 | panacea-ai | 83ba2858 | 53K | open_loop | .../panacea-ai |
| 2026-08-16 | dreamweaver | 83ba2858 | 41K | open_loop | .../dreamweaver |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-29 | Codex | <home> | 01a04b02 | 436K | 23K | no_repo |
| 2026-08-29 | Codex | <home> | 01a04b04 | 363K | 22K | no_repo |
| 2026-08-29 | Codex | <home> | 01a04b02 | 258K | 25K | no_repo |
| 2026-08-29 | Codex | <home> | 01a04b01 | 230K | 17K | no_repo |
| 2026-08-29 | Codex | <home> | 01a04624 | 18K | 2K | no_repo |
| 2026-08-29 | CC | <home> | 11b483fd | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-29 | CC | <home> | 2c855730 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-29 | CC | <home> | 3c9a0a81 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-29 | CC | <home> | 5fe51598 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-29 | CC | <home> | 65c864ba | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-29 | CC | <home> | 75c80b30 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-29 | CC | <home> | 96328f91 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-29 | CC | <home> | cb73da8c | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-29 | CC | <home> | dda39036 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-29 | CC | <home> | de697555 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-29 | CC | <home> | e5757bce | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-29 | CC | <home> | f3319c16 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-28 | CC | las | d33e7f08 | 689K | 8K | committed #17 |
| 2026-08-28 | Codex | <home> | 01a04624 | 20K | 1K | no_repo |
| 2026-08-28 | CC | <home> | d33e7f08 | 19K | 8K | no_repo |
| 2026-08-28 | Codex | <home> | 01a04625 | 14K | 2K | no_repo |
| 2026-08-28 | Codex | <home> | 01a04625 | 13K | 800 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-28 | CC | pal/templari | d33e7f08 | 4K | 892 | open_loop |
| 2026-08-28 | CC | pal | d33e7f08 | 2K | 786 | open_loop |
| 2026-08-28 | CC | <home> | 1baede98 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-28 | CC | <home> | 1d3ae782 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-28 | CC | <home> | 23cf70c9 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-28 | CC | <home> | 42277f1a | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-28 | CC | <home> | 449817da | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-28 | CC | <home> | 44a1c21d | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
Generated 2026-08-29 13:00 UTC from ~/ideas/pal/dashboards/token_burn.jsonl (1010 rows). Sources: ~/.codex/sessions/ (exact), ~/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/ (exact). No estimate lane currently active.