Token Burn

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

today · in flight
462K active
13 sessions · spend 818K · Claude Code 462K
by project: <home> 462K
top session d6cb46f3 (<home>, 36K, —)
2026-09-18
as of 2026-09-18T13:00:19Z
Stupid button · 28m ago · gemma4:e4b · 2134t in / 305t out · 77.9s

Trend vs last week

What worked

What wasted tokens

Why the big number is big

No agent fan-out this window.

What needs a verdict

One contrarian observation

The las project has 1611835 unsettled tokens, but its acceptance ratio is 0.0, indicating no measurable progress landed on main despite the volume.

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Measurability caveat (generated, not model-authored): <home> (5.3M) 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.

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 1.6M · acceptance 0%
spend 30.4M · 157 sessions · Claude Code 6.9M
Last 30 days
0 accepted
unsettled 43.3M · acceptance 0%
spend 966.0M · 733 sessions · Claude Code 44.5M / Codex 4.6M
Last 90 days
0 accepted
unsettled 138.1M · acceptance 0%
spend 3.84B · 845 sessions · Codex 92.5M / Claude Code 51.4M

Daily heatmap — last 60 days

Each cell = one UTC day, color intensity = log10(active tokens). Hover for date + counts.

LessMore· log-scale, exact lane
29.1M on 07-28

Top 10 days

DateActiveSpend SessionsTop projectOutcomes
2026-07-2829.1M1.09B22<home> (29.1M)?=22
2026-08-1821.8M536.8M13<home> (21.6M)?=17
2026-07-1615.7M522.1M23<home> (15.7M)?=23
2026-08-0611.1M362.9M27<home> (11.1M)?=27
2026-08-315.9M144.8M26las (5.8M)?=29
2026-08-195.6M205.7M24pal (2.3M)?=33
2026-09-085.1M47.8M28las (4.0M)no_repo=24 · open_loop=3 · committed=1 · PRs #21
2026-08-294.5M158.4M30las (1.7M)?=31
2026-08-304.2M72.4M25las (4.2M)?=25
2026-09-044.1M90.1M29las (2.3M)?=33

By project — last 7 days

ProjectActive 
<home>5.3M
las1.6M

By outcome — last 7 days

committed 1 #21 (OPEN)
no_repo 156

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

ProjectAcceptedRatioMix
las00%
pal00%
memory00%
mainstay-av00%
pal/templari00%
Downloads00%

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

ProjectAcceptedRatioMix
las00%
mainstay-av00%
pal00%
<home>00%
memory00%

Needs validation — last 14 days (18 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.

DateProjectSessionActiveAutocwd
2026-09-08las4b15a9974.0Mcommitted · #21 (OPEN).../las/.worktrees/mvp
2026-09-11las4b15a9973.0Mcommitted · #21 (OPEN).../las/.worktrees/mvp
2026-09-09las4b15a9972.7Mcommitted · #21 (OPEN).../las/.worktrees/mvp
2026-09-16las4b15a9971.6Mcommitted · #21 (OPEN).../las/.worktrees/mvp
2026-09-06las4b15a997913Kcommitted · #21 (OPEN).../las/.worktrees/mvp
2026-09-08pal01a07347872Kopen_loop.../pal
2026-09-05las4b15a997645Kopen_loop.../las/.worktrees/mvp
2026-09-11pal01a07347448Kopen_loop.../pal
2026-09-07pal01a07a8f192Kopen_loop.../pal
2026-09-07pal01a07347191Kopen_loop.../pal
2026-09-11pal01a0925e165Kopen_loop.../pal
2026-09-11pal01a0925f151Kopen_loop.../pal
2026-09-08pal01a07ec0106Kopen_loop.../pal
2026-09-08pal01a07fb193Kopen_loop.../pal
2026-09-05pal01a0734757Kopen_loop.../pal
2026-09-11pal01a0925e17Kopen_loop.../pal
2026-09-11pal01a0888c17Kopen_loop.../pal
2026-09-05pal01a0728d13Kopen_loop.../pal

Recent events — last 30 rows

Latest enriched rows from the JSONL (sorted by date desc, active desc as tiebreaker). M = manually labeled.

DateToolProjectSessionActiveOutputOutcome
2026-09-18CC<home>d6cb46f336K908no_repo
2026-09-18CC<home>1745e0fc36K878no_repo
2026-09-18CC<home>c8d7206236K826no_repo
2026-09-18CC<home>324df14936K752no_repo
2026-09-18CC<home>c64676d936K726no_repo
2026-09-18CC<home>a40129ed36K680no_repo
2026-09-18CC<home>34946a3b36K666no_repo
2026-09-18CC<home>0a63a4f435K644no_repo
2026-09-18CC<home>8c3e063535K580no_repo
2026-09-18CC<home>dc562ddb35K558no_repo
2026-09-18CC<home>e81f3fb535K540no_repo
2026-09-18CC<home>f3e8a86235K492no_repo
2026-09-18CC<home>7ec905e635K436no_repo
2026-09-17CC<home>24be99a036K1Kno_repo
2026-09-17CC<home>8475785d36K870no_repo
2026-09-17CC<home>3425fc6c36K820no_repo
2026-09-17CC<home>5868572036K776no_repo
2026-09-17CC<home>3ce3a73336K764no_repo
2026-09-17CC<home>424f48c936K764no_repo
2026-09-17CC<home>fe3ec45a36K748no_repo
2026-09-17CC<home>6e4d814a36K738no_repo
2026-09-17CC<home>6929724236K734no_repo
2026-09-17CC<home>ba2748ba36K734no_repo
2026-09-17CC<home>8df4543f36K724no_repo
2026-09-17CC<home>e11e303536K718no_repo
2026-09-17CC<home>c1bab94c36K690no_repo
2026-09-17CC<home>ab11b46f35K636no_repo
2026-09-17CC<home>9d5aeeed35K624no_repo
2026-09-17CC<home>efef534e35K582no_repo
2026-09-17CC<home>ed9d6a9d35K568no_repo

Generated 2026-09-18 13:00 UTC from ~/ideas/pal/dashboards/token_burn.jsonl (924 rows). Sources: ~/.codex/sessions/ (exact), ~/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/ (exact). No estimate lane currently active.