Burn is not proof. Output is not victory. Accepted work that repeats is leverage.
1.5M (150.1%) vs last week.2.7M (-58.4%) vs last week.las accounted for 15.0M of accepted active tokens.memory accounted for 1.1M of accepted active tokens.mainstay-av has an unsettled volume of 1.6M (acceptance_ratio: 0.0).<home> has 2.4M in waste tokens, and its acceptance ratio is 0.0, with the note: "UNMEASURABLE — ran outside any git repo, so 0.0 is the meter failing to see the work, not a judgement on it".mainstay-av has an unsettled volume of 1.6M (acceptance_ratio: 0.0).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 total. Agents involved were: Chandrasekhar, Faraday, Harvey, James, Pascal.
mainstay-av + 5af22ad7 + 2026-08-29 + mainstay-av/docs/entity + 1.6M — suggested verdict: review. (open_loop, 1.6M burn — worth looking)las + 4b15a997 + 2026-09-03 + las/.worktrees/mvp + 165K — suggested verdict: not_useful. (open_loop, 165K burn — small miss)pal/templari + d33e7f08 + 2026-08-31 + pal/templari + 61K — suggested verdict: not_useful. (open_loop, 61K burn — small miss)mainstay-av + d33e7f08 + 2026-09-04 + mainstay-av + 30K — suggested verdict: not_useful. (open_loop, 30K burn — small miss)pal + 5af22ad7 + 2026-09-01 + pal + 24K — suggested verdict: not_useful. (open_loop, 24K burn — small miss)pal + 5af22ad7 + 2026-08-31 + pal + 23K — suggested verdict: not_useful. (open_loop, 23K burn — small miss)pal + d33e7f08 + 2026-09-04 + pal + 17K — suggested verdict: not_useful. (open_loop, 17K burn — small miss)pal + d33e7f08 + 2026-08-31 + pal + 10K — suggested verdict: not_useful. (open_loop, 10K burn — small miss)The <home> project shows 2.4M in waste tokens, but this volume is unmeasurable because the acceptance note states: "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> (2.4M) 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 | 15.2M | |
| <home> | 2.4M | |
| mainstay-av | 1.6M | |
| memory | 1.1M | |
| pal | 74K | |
| pal/templari | 61K |
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 | 43% | |
| 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 |
| 2026-08-22 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-04 | 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> | 40611dd8 | 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> | 9caffe96 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-04 | CC | <home> | a0821cd0 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-04 | CC | <home> | b993067c | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-04 | CC | <home> | bf5a0cd2 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-04 | CC | <home> | bf633e7a | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-04 | CC | <home> | c0da7bdb | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-04 | CC | <home> | e61410dd | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-04 | CC | <home> | f5a12ccb | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-03 | CC | las | 4b15a997 | 165K | 15K | open_loop |
| 2026-09-03 | CC | <home> | 10009a4a | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-03 | CC | <home> | 101673af | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-03 | CC | <home> | 2e5fdfd4 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-03 | CC | <home> | 39a9338c | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-03 | CC | <home> | 3b76cc44 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-03 | CC | <home> | 3e257d0d | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-03 | CC | <home> | 49aac17e | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-09-03 | CC | <home> | 5af0e638 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
Generated 2026-09-04 13:00 UTC from ~/ideas/pal/dashboards/token_burn.jsonl (985 rows). Sources: ~/.codex/sessions/ (exact), ~/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/ (exact). No estimate lane currently active.