Token Burn

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

today · in flight

2.2M active

14 sessions · spend 55.7M · Claude Code 2.2M
by project: dreamweaver 2.2M · tmp 39K · <home> 0
top session d476d902 (dreamweaver, 2.2M, —)

2026-08-14
as of 2026-08-14T12:55:32Z

Stupid button · 24m ago · gemma4:e4b · 3169t in / 702t out · 122.5s

Trend vs last week

Accepted tokens are DOWN 18.6M (-84.0%) vs last week.
Unsettled tokens are UP 7.8M (84.4%) vs last week.
Waste tokens are DOWN 20.1M (-82.2%) vs last week.

What worked

dreamweaver accounted for 3.0M in accepted tokens.
pal accounted for 457K in accepted tokens.

What wasted tokens

<home> has the worst acceptance ratio at 0.0, contributing to 4.1M waste.
The path dreamweaver/.worktrees/deploy-main shows significant unsettled burn across multiple dates.
gpu-bench generated 117K in waste tokens with a 0.0 acceptance ratio.

What needs a verdict

dreamweaver + d476d902 + 2026-08-12 + dreamweaver/.worktrees/deploy-main: suggested_verdict is "review". (open_loop, 6.5M burn — worth looking)
dreamweaver + d476d902 + 2026-08-09 + dreamweaver: suggested_verdict is "review". (open_loop, 3.4M burn — worth looking)
dreamweaver + d476d902 + 2026-08-14 + dreamweaver/.worktrees/deploy-main: suggested_verdict is "review". (open_loop, 2.2M burn — worth looking)
pal/placeholders + d476d902 + 2026-08-10 + pal/placeholders: suggested_verdict is "review". (open_loop, 1.8M burn — worth looking)
dreamweaver + d476d902 + 2026-08-10 + dreamweaver: suggested_verdict is "review". (open_loop, 1.6M burn — worth looking)
pal/placeholders + d476d902 + 2026-08-12 + pal/placeholders: suggested_verdict is "review". (open_loop, 1.2M burn — worth looking)
memory + 1a653de6 + 2026-08-08 + /home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory: suggested_verdict is "not_useful". (open_loop, 219K burn — small miss)

One contrarian observation

The dreamweaver project has a high unsettled volume of 13.8M while only accepting 3.0M (unsettled_active_h: "13.8M").

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

3.5M accepted

unsettled 17.0M · acceptance 14%

spend 758.2M · 160 sessions · Claude Code 23.5M / Codex 1.4M

Last 30 days

25.6M accepted

unsettled 215.2M · acceptance 9%

spend 10.46B · 653 sessions · Claude Code 212.4M / Codex 57.3M

Last 90 days

25.6M accepted

unsettled 260.1M · acceptance 8%

spend 11.23B · 753 sessions · Claude Code 215.6M / Codex 99.0M

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)	no_repo=10 · accepted=6 · open_loop=4 · PRs #11, #522
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	16.8M
<home>	4.1M
pal/placeholders	3.0M
pal	457K
memory	219K
gpu-bench	117K
wt-cifix	60K
.openclaw	40K
tmp	39K
wt-composefix	18K
package	14K
wt-deploy	11K

By outcome — last 7 days

accepted 6 #526 (MERGED)

open_loop 7

no_repo 169

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	16.5M	48%
payday	6.1M	11%
command-center	1.3M	90%
las	799K	3%
pal	731K	35%
wt-cifix	60K	100%

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

Project	Accepted	Ratio	Mix
<home>	0	0%
panacea-ai	0	0%
wasatch-valley-fence	0	0%
wasatch-digital-assets-site	0	0%
memory	0	0%
pal/placeholders	0	0%

Needs validation — last 14 days (20 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
2026-08-01	panacea-ai	ded95beb	2.2M	open_loop	.../panacea-ai/pitch
2026-08-10	pal/placeholders	d476d902	1.8M	open_loop	.../pal/placeholders
2026-08-10	dreamweaver	d476d902	1.6M	open_loop	.../dreamweaver
2026-08-01	panacea-ai	2b1c0e9c	1.5M	open_loop	.../panacea-ai
2026-08-01	pal	2b1c0e9c	1.3M	open_loop	.../pal
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
2026-08-01	panacea-ai	30446ba4	1.0M	open_loop	.../panacea-ai
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
2026-08-14	CC	dreamweaver	d476d902	2.2M	82K	open_loop
2026-08-14	CC	tmp	d476d902	39K	22K	no_repo
2026-08-14	CC	<home>	1baa2172	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-14	CC	<home>	4ac35dbc	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-14	CC	<home>	7baa7c27	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-14	CC	<home>	9240d37b	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
2026-08-14	CC	<home>	c107de60	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-14	CC	<home>	daff3306	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-14	CC	<home>	db09696a	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-14	CC	<home>	e0a23a47	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-14	CC	<home>	fd0b7a0a	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-13	CC	<home>	0e003772	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-13	CC	<home>	25711271	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-13	CC	<home>	25d97806	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-13	CC	<home>	30002abc	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-13	CC	<home>	3ce085ad	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-13	CC	<home>	42c4b91b	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-13	CC	<home>	592bb9c1	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-13	CC	<home>	5d0f4e05	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-13	CC	<home>	5f76ed41	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-13	CC	<home>	6b238158	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-13	CC	<home>	7daa7704	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-13	CC	<home>	80b736e0	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-13	CC	<home>	96702df9	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-13	CC	<home>	9b3def4f	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-13	CC	<home>	a489b2e5	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-13	CC	<home>	ae82bd4e	0	0	no_repo

Generated 2026-08-14 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.