Token Burn

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

today · in flight
15.4M active
19 sessions · spend 404.4M · Codex 14.9M / Claude Code 474K
by project: <home> 14.9M · pal 400K · pal/templari 74K
top session 01a013bf (<home>, 4.9M, —)
2026-08-18
as of 2026-08-18T13:00:22Z
Stupid button · 28m ago · gemma4:e4b · 3406t in / 690t out · 95.2s

Trend vs last week

What worked

What wasted tokens

What needs a verdict

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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
2.0M accepted
unsettled 11.4M · acceptance 5%
spend 856.8M · 164 sessions · Codex 23.6M / Claude Code 15.8M
Last 30 days
11.1M accepted
unsettled 199.1M · acceptance 4%
spend 10.12B · 643 sessions · Claude Code 191.5M / Codex 65.2M
Last 90 days
11.1M accepted
unsettled 276.7M · acceptance 3%
spend 11.83B · 766 sessions · Claude Code 215.3M / Codex 119.0M

Daily heatmap — last 60 days

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

LessMore· log-scale, exact lane
34.5M on 07-28

Top 10 days

DateActiveSpend SessionsTop projectOutcomes
2026-07-2834.5M1.78B29<home> (29.6M)?=32
2026-08-0124.5M1.57B10payday (6.1M)?=20
2026-07-1623.3M797.0M15<home> (16.3M)?=18
2026-07-3123.1M2.10B9payday (8.1M)?=34
2026-07-2121.5M437.6M27<home> (10.6M)?=32
2026-08-1821.0M534.8M19<home> (20.5M)no_repo=18 · committed=2 · PRs #27
2026-07-3019.4M645.3M26payday (16.5M)?=31
2026-08-0616.5M592.1M36<home> (12.0M)no_repo=36 · accepted=5 · open_loop=2 · PRs #522
2026-07-2911.2M118.2M25payday (10.8M)?=27
2026-07-2410.8M403.2M26las (5.9M)?=28

By project — last 7 days

ProjectActive 
<home>25.2M
dreamweaver8.7M
pal2.6M
pal/placeholders1.2M
tmp867K
memory548K
pal/templari254K
panacea-ai53K
wt-deploy11K

By outcome — last 7 days

accepted 2 #26 (MERGED)
committed 2 #27 (OPEN)
open_loop 8
no_repo 170

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
dreamweaver8.3M24%
pal2.6M54%
pal/templari180K71%
wt-cifix60K100%
pal/memory22K11%
pal/bin1K100%

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

ProjectAcceptedRatioMix
<home>00%
payday00%
panacea-ai00%
wasatch-valley-fence00%
las00%
wasatch-digital-assets-site00%

Needs validation — last 14 days (19 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
2026-08-12dreamweaverd476d9026.5Mopen_loop.../dreamweaver/.worktrees/deploy-main
2026-08-09dreamweaverd476d9023.4Mopen_loop.../dreamweaver
2026-08-14dreamweaverd476d9022.2Mopen_loop.../dreamweaver/.worktrees/deploy-main
2026-08-10pal/placeholdersd476d9021.8Mopen_loop.../pal/placeholders
2026-08-10dreamweaverd476d9021.6Mopen_loop.../dreamweaver
2026-08-12pal/placeholdersd476d9021.2Mopen_loop.../pal/placeholders
2026-08-16memory83ba2858542Kopen_loop/home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory
2026-08-06memoryec185e82473Kopen_loop/home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory
2026-08-18pal83ba2858400Kcommitted · #27 (OPEN).../pal
2026-08-17pal83ba2858388Kopen_loop.../pal
2026-08-08memory1a653de6219Kopen_loop/home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory
2026-08-07command-center6eb17f09150Kopen_loop.../command-center
2026-08-07memory6eb17f09149Kopen_loop/home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory
2026-08-18pal/templari83ba285874Kcommitted · #27 (OPEN).../pal/templari
2026-08-07server6eb17f0972Kopen_loop/home/khoward/src/OB1/server
2026-08-16panacea-ai83ba285853Kopen_loop.../panacea-ai
2026-08-16dreamweaver83ba285841Kopen_loop.../dreamweaver
2026-08-06memory006e469010Kopen_loop/home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory
2026-08-15memory83ba28586Kopen_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.

DateToolProjectSessionActiveOutputOutcome
2026-08-18Codex<home>019fee2e5.5M450Kno_repo
2026-08-18Codex<home>01a013bf4.9M343Kno_repo
2026-08-18Codex<home>01a013da2.9M201Kno_repo
2026-08-18Codex<home>01a013da2.6M205Kno_repo
2026-08-18Codex<home>01a013da2.5M195Kno_repo
2026-08-18Codex<home>01a013e72.1M179Kno_repo
2026-08-18CCpal83ba2858400K5Kcommitted #27
2026-08-18CCpal/templari83ba285874K22Kcommitted #27
2026-08-18CC<home>187368dc00no_repo
2026-08-18CC<home>1c793fb700no_repo
2026-08-18CC<home>2e8ac25c00no_repo
2026-08-18CC<home>351ee58e00no_repo
2026-08-18CC<home>3cb8cdec00no_repo
2026-08-18CC<home>400aa65700no_repo
2026-08-18CC<home>77065d3f00no_repo
2026-08-18CC<home>87fa4d0100no_repo
2026-08-18CC<home>8c47fc3300no_repo
2026-08-18CC<home>be0aafd200no_repo
2026-08-18CC<home>f8b45e2f00no_repo
2026-08-18CC<home>f9c3e87400no_repo
2026-08-17Codex<home>019fee2e3.1M105Kno_repo
2026-08-17CCpal83ba2858388K3Kopen_loop
2026-08-17CC<home>0d962db500no_repo
2026-08-17CC<home>0dd7a09100no_repo
2026-08-17CC<home>1064916100no_repo
2026-08-17CC<home>194c9ce700no_repo
2026-08-17CC<home>2363bbb400no_repo
2026-08-17CC<home>278340a100no_repo
2026-08-17CC<home>3cd84a7c00no_repo
2026-08-17CC<home>44f7b74900no_repo

Generated 2026-08-18 13:00 UTC from ~/ideas/pal/dashboards/token_burn.jsonl (931 rows). Sources: ~/.codex/sessions/ (exact), ~/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/ (exact). No estimate lane currently active.