Burn is not proof. Output is not victory. Accepted work that repeats is leverage.
las accounted for 13.4M in accepted tokens.memory accounted for 1.1M in accepted tokens.las has an acceptance ratio of 0.988, but 0 waste tokens were recorded.<home> project has an acceptance ratio of 0.0, and 1.1M in waste tokens were recorded. This is unmeasurable — ran outside any git repo, so 0.0 is the meter failing to see the work, not a judgement on it.<home>.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 involved 6 threads, 3 forks, and a max depth of 1, charging 33.8M. The agents involved were Chandrasekhar, Faraday, Harvey, James, and Pascal.
las + 4b15a997 + 2026-09-03 + las/.worktrees/mvp + 165K: suggested_verdict is not_useful. (open_loop, 165K burn — small miss)pal/templari + d33e7f08 + 2026-08-31 + pal/templari + 61K: suggested_verdict is not_useful. (open_loop, 61K burn — small miss)mainstay-av + d33e7f08 + 2026-09-04 + mainstay-av + 30K: suggested_verdict is not_useful. (open_loop, 30K burn — small miss)pal + 5af22ad7 + 2026-09-01 + pal + 24K: suggested_verdict is not_useful. (open_loop, 24K burn — small miss)pal + 5af22ad7 + 2026-08-31 + pal + 23K: suggested_verdict is not_useful. (open_loop, 23K burn — small miss)pal + d33e7f08 + 2026-09-04 + pal + 17K: suggested_verdict is not_useful. (open_loop, 17K burn — small miss)pal + d33e7f08 + 2026-08-31 + pal + 10K: suggested_verdict is not_useful. (open_loop, 10K burn — small miss)The <home> project shows 1.1M in waste tokens, but its acceptance_ratio of 0.0 is due to it being unmeasurable — ran outside any git repo, so 0.0 is the meter failing to see the work, not a judgement on it.
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Measurability caveat (generated, not model-authored): <home> (1.1M) 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 | 29.1M | 1.09B | 22 | <home> (29.1M) | ?=22 |
| 2026-08-18 | 22.3M | 554.5M | 38 | <home> (21.6M) | ?=43 |
| 2026-08-06 | 16.5M | 592.1M | 51 | <home> (12.0M) | ?=58 |
| 2026-07-16 | 15.7M | 522.1M | 23 | <home> (15.7M) | ?=23 |
| 2026-08-12 | 7.7M | 116.0M | 25 | dreamweaver (6.5M) | ?=27 |
| 2026-08-08 | 6.1M | 358.6M | 27 | dreamweaver (3.0M) | ?=37 |
| 2026-08-07 | 6.0M | 352.8M | 28 | <home> (4.1M) | ?=35 |
| 2026-08-31 | 5.9M | 144.8M | 26 | las (5.8M) | no_repo=24 · open_loop=3 · accepted=2 · PRs #18 |
| 2026-06-15 | 5.9M | 132.6M | 9 | <home> (5.9M) | ?=9 |
| 2026-08-19 | 5.6M | 205.7M | 27 | pal (2.3M) | ?=36 |
| Project | Active | |
|---|---|---|
| las | 13.5M | |
| <home> | 1.1M | |
| memory | 1.1M | |
| pal | 74K | |
| pal/templari | 61K | |
| mainstay-av | 30K |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| las | 15.0M | 86% | |
| memory | 1.1M | 52% | |
| mainstay-av | 0 | 0% | |
| pal | 0 | 0% | |
| pal/templari | 0 | 0% | |
| templari | 0 | 0% |
| Project | Accepted | Ratio | Mix |
|---|---|---|---|
| <home> | 0 | 0% | |
| dreamweaver | 0 | 0% | |
| pal | 0 | 0% | |
| mainstay-av | 0 | 0% | |
| pal/placeholders | 0 | 0% | |
| pal/dashboards | 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 |
| 2026-08-29 | mainstay-av | 5af22ad7 | 1.6M | open_loop | .../mainstay-av/docs/entity |
| 2026-08-28 | las | d33e7f08 | 689K | open_loop | .../las |
| 2026-09-03 | las | 4b15a997 | 165K | open_loop | .../las/.worktrees/mvp |
| 2026-08-24 | las | d33e7f08 | 146K | open_loop | .../las |
| 2026-08-23 | pal | d33e7f08 | 68K | open_loop | .../pal |
| 2026-08-31 | pal/templari | d33e7f08 | 61K | open_loop | .../pal/templari |
| 2026-09-04 | mainstay-av | d33e7f08 | 30K | open_loop | .../mainstay-av |
| 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 |
| 2026-09-01 | pal | 5af22ad7 | 24K | open_loop | .../pal |
| 2026-08-23 | memory | d33e7f08 | 23K | open_loop | /home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory |
| 2026-08-31 | pal | 5af22ad7 | 23K | open_loop | .../pal |
| 2026-09-04 | pal | d33e7f08 | 17K | open_loop | .../pal |
| 2026-08-23 | pal/memory | d33e7f08 | 14K | open_loop | .../pal/memory |
| 2026-08-23 | pal/templari | d33e7f08 | 11K | open_loop | .../pal/templari |
| 2026-08-31 | pal | d33e7f08 | 10K | open_loop | .../pal |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-05 | CC | <home> | 103ed8a5 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-05 | CC | <home> | 19f62206 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-05 | CC | <home> | 5379f2b8 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-05 | CC | <home> | 7a0b538b | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-05 | CC | <home> | 97304b46 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-05 | CC | <home> | 9dd2c1b1 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-05 | CC | <home> | 9de36c25 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-05 | CC | <home> | a6fdaac7 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-05 | CC | <home> | dbdc142a | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-05 | CC | <home> | e707ee4b | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-05 | CC | <home> | eb6d5124 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-05 | CC | <home> | f65545cb | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-04 | CC | las | 4b15a997 | 1.3M | 107K | accepted #17 |
| 2026-09-04 | CC | memory | d33e7f08 | 1.1M | 52K | accepted |
| 2026-09-04 | CC | las | d33e7f08 | 1.0M | 80K | accepted #17 |
| 2026-09-04 | Codex | <home> | 01a04b01 | 353K | 25K | no_repo |
| 2026-09-04 | Codex | <home> | 01a06bbe | 144K | 5K | no_repo |
| 2026-09-04 | Codex | <home> | 01a06bbe | 103K | 6K | no_repo |
| 2026-09-04 | CC | <home> | d33e7f08 | 38K | 19K | no_repo |
| 2026-09-04 | CC | mainstay-av | d33e7f08 | 30K | 15K | open_loop |
| 2026-09-04 | CC | pal | d33e7f08 | 17K | 6K | open_loop |
| 2026-09-04 | CC | <home> | 023bc3d7 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-04 | CC | <home> | 1d1aabf1 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-04 | CC | <home> | 23068ad8 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-04 | CC | <home> | 273f3c97 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-04 | CC | <home> | 40611dd8 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-04 | CC | <home> | 4484c913 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-04 | CC | <home> | 505bdaf8 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-04 | CC | <home> | 55fd9773 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-04 | CC | <home> | 56880df5 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
Generated 2026-09-05 12:55 UTC from ~/ideas/pal/dashboards/token_burn.jsonl (1009 rows). Sources: ~/.codex/sessions/ (exact), ~/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/ (exact). No estimate lane currently active.