Token Burn

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

today · in flight
1.2M active
6 sessions · spend 17.2M · Claude Code 1.2M
by project: pal 683K · <home> 365K · dreamweaver 123K
top session 392618c3 (pal, 683K, —)
2026-10-10
as of 2026-10-10T13:00:17Z
Stupid button · 29m ago · gemma4:e4b · 2405t in / 507t out · 32.3s

Trend vs last week

What worked

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 497K in waste volume, but this volume is unmeasurable because the acceptance_note is "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> (497K) 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
107K accepted
unsettled 806K · acceptance 8%
spend 26.3M · 7 sessions · Claude Code 1.4M
Last 30 days
107K accepted
unsettled 19.2M · acceptance 1%
spend 148.8M · 408 sessions · Claude Code 19.0M / Codex 1.4M
Last 90 days
107K accepted
unsettled 115.6M · acceptance 0%
spend 2.96B · 527 sessions · Codex 87.6M / Claude Code 29.2M

Daily heatmap — last 60 days

Each cell = one UTC day, color intensity = log10(active tokens). Hover for date + counts.

LessMore· log-scale, exact lane
20.5M on 08-18

Top 10 days

DateActiveSpend SessionsTop projectOutcomes
2026-07-2829.1M1.09B22<home> (29.1M)?=22
2026-08-1820.5M517.2M11<home> (20.5M)?=11
2026-07-1615.7M522.1M23<home> (15.7M)?=23
2026-08-0611.1M362.9M27<home> (11.1M)?=27
2026-09-085.1M47.8M4las (4.0M)?=4
2026-09-113.9M69.9M30las (3.0M)?=30
2026-08-173.1M42.5M4<home> (3.1M)?=4
2026-09-092.7M80.5M1las (2.7M)?=1
2026-09-162.5M22.4M25las (1.6M)?=25
2026-09-041.9M34.5M4las (1.3M)?=4

By project — last 7 days

ProjectActive 
pal683K
<home>497K
dreamweaver229K

By outcome — last 7 days

accepted 1
open_loop 2
no_repo 7

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
dreamweaver107K46%
pal00%
las00%
<home>00%

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

ProjectAcceptedRatioMix
<home>00%
las00%
pal00%
dreamweaver107K46%

Needs validation — last 14 days (2 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
2026-10-10pal392618c3683Kopen_loop.../pal
2026-10-10dreamweaver392618c3123Kopen_loop.../dreamweaver

Recent events — last 30 rows

Latest enriched rows from the JSONL (sorted by date desc, active desc as tiebreaker). M = manually labeled.

DateToolProjectSessionActiveOutputOutcome
2026-10-10CCpal392618c3683K82Kopen_loop
2026-10-10CCdreamweaver392618c3123K36Kopen_loop
2026-10-10CC<home>392618c3107K1Kno_repo
2026-10-10CC<home>6c07a42163K956no_repo
2026-10-10CC<home>7a8e6f8663K670no_repo
2026-10-10CC<home>1df385cf35K890no_repo
2026-10-10CC<home>7cb2e88134K1Kno_repo
2026-10-05CC<home>b7974766163K25Kno_repo
2026-10-05CCdreamweaverb7974766107K39Kaccepted
2026-10-04CC<home>a38a064f32K936no_repo
2026-10-03CC<home>253b391532K1Kno_repo
2026-10-03CC<home>b12dd81c32K948no_repo
2026-10-03CC<home>3e2a077d32K860no_repo
2026-10-02CC<home>c9e42de733K888no_repo
2026-10-02CC<home>77884bb433K1Kno_repo
2026-10-02CC<home>45fb428b32K832no_repo
2026-10-01CC<home>3d7e4e3c32K958no_repo
2026-10-01CC<home>ceb2ac7532K932no_repo
2026-10-01CC<home>455607dd32K982no_repo
2026-10-01CC<home>dce2827b32K888no_repo
2026-10-01CC<home>3778305c32K852no_repo
2026-10-01CC<home>7c7cc4a632K822no_repo
2026-10-01CC<home>a7efc16a32K822no_repo
2026-10-01CC<home>4abc491532K734no_repo
2026-10-01CC<home>417e79bb32K730no_repo
2026-10-01CC<home>749982a332K674no_repo
2026-10-01CC<home>4e6a8a9532K614no_repo
2026-10-01CC<home>3c7bc97032K578no_repo
2026-10-01CC<home>d7ba5dbb32K424no_repo
2026-10-01CC<home>ef4b9fb431K686no_repo

Generated 2026-10-10 13:00 UTC from ~/ideas/pal/dashboards/token_burn.jsonl (554 rows). Sources: ~/.codex/sessions/ (exact), ~/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/ (exact). No estimate lane currently active.