Token Burn

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

today · in flight

3.5M active

12 sessions · spend 10.6M · Claude Code 3.5M
by project: dreamweaver 2.4M · pal/placeholders 1.2M · <home> 0
top session d476d902 (dreamweaver, 2.4M, —)

2026-08-12
as of 2026-08-12T11:00:28Z

Stupid button · 22h ago · gemma4:e4b · 3400t in / 696t out · 107.4s

Trend vs last week

Accepted tokens are down 55.1M (-93.5%) compared to last week.
Waste tokens are up 6.0M (42.2%) compared to last week.

What worked

dreamweaver accepted 3.0M in active hours.
pal accepted 731K in active hours.

What wasted tokens

<home> has the highest waste volume at 20.1M (waste_active_h) and a 0.0 acceptance ratio.
The dreamweaver project shows significant activity in the <home> directory, contributing to the overall high waste totals.
gpu-bench contributed 117K (waste_active_h) with a 0.0 acceptance ratio.

What needs a verdict

dreamweaver + 006e4690 + 2026-08-06 + dreamweaver: suggested_verdict is "review" (PR open — work in flight).
dreamweaver + d476d902 + 2026-08-09 + dreamweaver: suggested_verdict is "review" (open_loop, 3.4M 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).
dreamweaver + f326bd69 + 2026-08-07 + dreamweaver: suggested_verdict is "review" (PR open — work in flight).
memory + ec185e82 + 2026-08-06 + /home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory: suggested_verdict is "not_useful" (open_loop, 473K burn — small miss).
dreamweaver + ec185e82 + 2026-08-06 + dreamweaver: suggested_verdict is "review" (PR open — work in flight).
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 <home> directory accounts for the vast majority of waste tokens at

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

3.8M accepted

unsettled 13.2M · acceptance 10%

spend 1.53B · 150 sessions · Claude Code 24.9M / Codex 12.5M

Last 30 days

62.7M accepted

unsettled 165.3M · acceptance 24%

spend 10.30B · 629 sessions · Claude Code 205.0M / Codex 57.7M

Last 90 days

62.7M accepted

unsettled 211.0M · acceptance 20%

spend 11.07B · 758 sessions · Claude Code 209.3M / Codex 99.1M

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)	no_repo=15 · accepted=11 · open_loop=8 · PRs #3, #8, #57, #517
2026-07-21	21.5M	437.6M	27	<home> (10.6M)	?=32
2026-07-30	19.4M	645.3M	26	payday (16.5M)	no_repo=26 · open_loop=3 · accepted=2 · PRs #6
2026-08-06	16.5M	592.1M	36	<home> (12.0M)	no_repo=36 · accepted=3 · committed=2 · open_loop=2 · PRs #522
2026-07-29	11.2M	118.2M	25	payday (10.8M)	no_repo=25 · accepted=1 · open_loop=1 · PRs #6
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
<home>	20.1M
dreamweaver	13.4M
pal/placeholders	1.8M
memory	851K
pal	731K
command-center	150K
gpu-bench	117K
server	72K
wt-cifix	60K
.openclaw	40K
tmp	26K
pal/memory	22K

By outcome — last 7 days

accepted 10 #526 (MERGED)

committed 5 #523 (OPEN), #522 (OPEN)

open_loop 9

no_repo 159

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
payday	41.5M	77%
dreamweaver	12.7M	48%
panacea-ai	5.1M	30%
command-center	1.3M	90%
workshopping	1.3M	82%
pal	731K	35%

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

Project	Accepted	Ratio	Mix
<home>	0	0%
las	0	0%
wasatch-valley-fence	0	0%
wasatch-digital-assets-site	0	0%
memory	0	0%
-home-khoward	0	0%

Needs validation — last 14 days (35 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
2026-08-06	dreamweaver	006e4690	3.6M	committed · #522 (OPEN)	.../dreamweaver
2026-08-09	dreamweaver	d476d902	3.4M	open_loop	.../dreamweaver
2026-08-04	dreamweaver	77b8f03c	2.2M	committed · #522 (OPEN)	.../dreamweaver
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
2026-08-07	dreamweaver	f326bd69	1.3M	committed · #523 (OPEN)	.../dreamweaver
2026-08-02	panacea-ai	ded95beb	1.2M	open_loop	.../panacea-ai/pitch
2026-08-01	panacea-ai	30446ba4	1.0M	open_loop	.../panacea-ai
2026-08-02	las	eec515e0	799K	committed	.../las/.worktrees/mvp
2026-07-30	dreamweaver	b4088fed	666K	open_loop	.../dreamweaver
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
2026-07-31	pal/extensions	435504fa	368K	open_loop	.../pal/extensions/meta-twilio
2026-07-31	ai_workflow	435504fa	350K	open_loop	.../ai_workflow
2026-07-30	workshopping	b4088fed	280K	open_loop	.../workshopping/site/sites/epochtraining.ai/admin
2026-07-31	pal/voice-agent	435504fa	236K	open_loop	.../pal/voice-agent
2026-08-06	dreamweaver	ec185e82	231K	committed · #522 (OPEN)	.../dreamweaver
2026-07-31	pal-fabric	435504fa	220K	open_loop	.../pal-fabric
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
2026-07-31	pal/memory	d8fee14c	178K	open_loop	.../pal/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
2026-08-11	Codex	<home>	019fee2e	1.4M	158K	no_repo
2026-08-11	CC	<home>	18c40dae	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-11	CC	<home>	1e81c007	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-11	CC	<home>	4226087e	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-11	CC	<home>	4359972d	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-11	CC	<home>	511c2824	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-11	CC	<home>	5157ce4c	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-11	CC	<home>	51a607ca	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-11	CC	<home>	51af7fa0	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-11	CC	<home>	61493acd	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-11	CC	<home>	6a986e85	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-11	CC	<home>	7b2bf3bd	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-11	CC	<home>	fd1a6153	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-10	CC	pal/placeholders	d476d902	1.8M	23K	open_loop
2026-08-10	CC	dreamweaver	d476d902	1.6M	178K	open_loop
2026-08-10	CC	<home>	17a34991	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-10	CC	<home>	24fbd353	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-10	CC	<home>	26926268	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-10	CC	<home>	26de63b6	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-10	CC	<home>	2cdd3a1d	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-10	CC	<home>	3880d612	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-10	CC	<home>	48992c41	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-10	CC	<home>	518be72e	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-10	CC	<home>	5353beeb	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-10	CC	<home>	53c5055d	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-10	CC	<home>	559689a5	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-10	CC	<home>	5c44a418	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-10	CC	<home>	5f343301	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-10	CC	<home>	693399d8	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-10	CC	<home>	7a08983f	0	0	no_repo

Generated 2026-08-12 11:00 UTC from ~/ideas/pal/dashboards/token_burn.jsonl (913 rows). Sources: ~/.codex/sessions/ (exact), ~/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/ (exact). No estimate lane currently active.