Token Burn

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

today · in flight
469K active
13 sessions · spend 825K · Claude Code 469K
by project: <home> 469K
top session 717b8991 (<home>, 36K, —)
2026-09-25
as of 2026-09-25T12:55:30Z
Stupid button · 25m ago · gemma4:e4b · 2272t in / 360t out · 32.7s

Trend vs last week

What worked

No projects show any accepted tokens this week.

What wasted tokens

Why the big number is big

No agent fan-out this window.

What needs a verdict

One contrarian observation

The <home> project has a massive waste burn of 5.6M, yet its acceptance ratio is 0.0, which is noted as unmeasurable.

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Measurability caveat (generated, not model-authored): <home> (5.6M) 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 638K · acceptance 0%
spend 18.6M · 158 sessions · Claude Code 5.6M / Codex 638K
Last 30 days
0 accepted
unsettled 37.6M · acceptance 0%
spend 850.5M · 732 sessions · Claude Code 43.5M / Codex 5.3M
Last 90 days
0 accepted
unsettled 130.6M · acceptance 0%
spend 3.71B · 842 sessions · Codex 87.6M / Claude Code 54.2M

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
2026-08-1821.2M527.5M12<home> (21.0M)?=14
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
2026-09-085.1M47.8M28las (4.0M)?=28
2026-08-294.5M158.4M30las (1.7M)?=31
2026-08-304.2M72.4M25las (4.2M)?=25
2026-09-044.1M90.1M29las (2.3M)?=33
2026-09-113.9M69.9M30las (3.0M)?=30

By project — last 7 days

ProjectActive 
<home>5.6M
pal638K

By outcome — last 7 days

open_loop 2
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
pal00%
las00%
memory00%
mainstay-av00%
pal/templari00%
<home>00%

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

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

Needs validation — last 14 days (3 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
2026-09-16las4b15a9971.6Mcommitted · #21 (OPEN).../las/.worktrees/mvp
2026-09-23pal01a0cd8d479Kopen_loop.../pal
2026-09-23pal01a07347159Kopen_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
2026-09-25CC<home>717b899136K1Kno_repo
2026-09-25CC<home>67710a0936K1Kno_repo
2026-09-25CC<home>d3f6dc6536K1Kno_repo
2026-09-25CC<home>6de5f7aa36K1Kno_repo
2026-09-25CC<home>5b98672d36K914no_repo
2026-09-25CC<home>b94c0ad636K836no_repo
2026-09-25CC<home>02de319636K812no_repo
2026-09-25CC<home>ad4c36d736K750no_repo
2026-09-25CC<home>5841c6de36K734no_repo
2026-09-25CC<home>0653e17236K796no_repo
2026-09-25CC<home>03a811d036K636no_repo
2026-09-25CC<home>e7a8f75336K606no_repo
2026-09-24CC<home>8d014ef337K1Kno_repo
2026-09-24CC<home>9e2b5d8036K1Kno_repo
2026-09-24CC<home>cd8257fb36K1Kno_repo
2026-09-24CC<home>717cc40636K1Kno_repo
2026-09-24CC<home>cde7e5b036K1Kno_repo
2026-09-24CC<home>e81dedde36K800no_repo
2026-09-24CC<home>9143b39136K792no_repo
2026-09-24CC<home>880622ff36K808no_repo
2026-09-24CC<home>37012f9f36K798no_repo
2026-09-24CC<home>d394c4fd36K774no_repo
2026-09-24CC<home>5fcc5ffe36K762no_repo
2026-09-24CC<home>c26d189d36K762no_repo
2026-09-24CC<home>052c3a1d36K728no_repo
2026-09-24CC<home>7e281b0b36K704no_repo
2026-09-24CC<home>21c1e61736K698no_repo
2026-09-24CC<home>6057756836K692no_repo
2026-09-24CC<home>8649212b36K660no_repo
2026-09-24CC<home>2e40a18836K648no_repo

Generated 2026-09-25 12:55 UTC from ~/ideas/pal/dashboards/token_burn.jsonl (911 rows). Sources: ~/.codex/sessions/ (exact), ~/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/ (exact). No estimate lane currently active.