Token Burn

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

today · in flight

0 active

13 sessions · spend 0 · Claude Code 0
by project: <home> 0
top session 0e003772 (<home>, 0, —)

2026-08-13
as of 2026-08-13T13:00:12Z

Stupid button · 29m ago · gemma4:e4b · 3438t in / 658t out · 120.6s

Trend vs last week

Accepted tokens are DOWN 32.9M (-86.7%) vs last week.
Unsettled tokens are UP 4.1M (37.1%) vs last week.
Waste tokens are DOWN 15.5M (-64.8%) vs last week.

What worked

dreamweaver shipped 4.5M in accepted tokens.
pal shipped 498K in accepted tokens.

What wasted tokens

<home> has an acceptance ratio of 0.0 and generated 8.2M in waste tokens.
gpu-bench has an acceptance ratio of 0.0 and generated 117K in waste tokens.
The largest single waste volume is from <home> at 8.2M (waste_active_h).

What needs a verdict

dreamweaver + d476d902 + 2026-08-12 + dreamweaver/.worktrees/deploy-main: suggested_verdict is review. (open_loop, 6.5M burn — worth looking)
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)
pal/placeholders + d476d902 + 2026-08-12 + pal/placeholders: suggested_verdict is review. (open_loop, 1.2M burn — worth looking)
memory + 1a653de6 + 2026-08-08 + /home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory: suggested_verdict is not_useful. (open_loop, 219K burn — small miss)
command-center + 6eb17f09 + 2026-08-07 + command-center: suggested_verdict is not_useful. (open_loop, 150K burn — small miss)
memory + 6eb17f09 + 2026-08-07 + /home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory: suggested_verdict is not_useful. (open_

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

5.0M accepted

unsettled 15.1M · acceptance 18%

spend 1.06B · 163 sessions · Claude Code 27.2M / Codex 1.4M

Last 30 days

42.9M accepted

unsettled 193.6M · acceptance 16%

spend 10.41B · 653 sessions · Claude Code 211.6M / Codex 57.3M

Last 90 days

42.9M accepted

unsettled 238.7M · acceptance 14%

spend 11.17B · 767 sessions · Claude Code 215.0M / Codex 99.0M

Daily heatmap — last 60 days

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

LessMore· log-scale, exact lane

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)	?=31
2026-08-06	16.5M	592.1M	36	<home> (12.0M)	no_repo=36 · accepted=5 · open_loop=2 · PRs #522
2026-07-29	11.2M	118.2M	25	payday (10.8M)	?=27
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
dreamweaver	16.0M
<home>	8.2M
pal/placeholders	3.0M
pal	498K
memory	368K
command-center	150K
gpu-bench	117K
server	72K
wt-cifix	60K
.openclaw	40K
tmp	26K
wt-composefix	18K

By outcome — last 7 days

accepted 10 #526 (MERGED), #523 (MERGED)

open_loop 9

no_repo 172

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
dreamweaver	20.1M	61%
payday	14.2M	27%
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%
pal/placeholders	0	0%

Needs validation — last 14 days (28 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
2026-08-12	dreamweaver	d476d902	6.5M	open_loop	.../dreamweaver/.worktrees/deploy-main
2026-08-09	dreamweaver	d476d902	3.4M	open_loop	.../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
2026-08-02	panacea-ai	ded95beb	1.2M	open_loop	.../panacea-ai/pitch
2026-08-12	pal/placeholders	d476d902	1.2M	open_loop	.../pal/placeholders
2026-08-01	panacea-ai	30446ba4	1.0M	open_loop	.../panacea-ai
2026-08-02	las	eec515e0	799K	committed · #1 (OPEN)	.../las/.worktrees/mvp
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
2026-07-31	pal/voice-agent	435504fa	236K	open_loop	.../pal/voice-agent
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
2026-08-07	command-center	6eb17f09	150K	open_loop	.../command-center
2026-08-07	memory	6eb17f09	149K	open_loop	/home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory
2026-08-07	server	6eb17f09	72K	open_loop	/home/khoward/src/OB1/server
2026-07-31	pal	435504fa	29K	open_loop	.../pal

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
2026-08-13	CC	<home>	0e003772	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-13	CC	<home>	25d97806	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-13	CC	<home>	42c4b91b	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-13	CC	<home>	5f76ed41	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-13	CC	<home>	6b238158	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-13	CC	<home>	9b3def4f	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-13	CC	<home>	ae82bd4e	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-13	CC	<home>	b0d0af09	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-13	CC	<home>	ca170900	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-13	CC	<home>	d77d66b0	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-13	CC	<home>	e0b3b457	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-13	CC	<home>	eedd6c95	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-12	CC	dreamweaver	d476d902	6.5M	115K	open_loop
2026-08-12	CC	pal/placeholders	d476d902	1.2M	4K	open_loop
2026-08-12	CC	wt-deploy	d476d902	11K	5K	no_repo
2026-08-12	CC	<home>	04f58ff1	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-12	CC	<home>	059c6c31	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-12	CC	<home>	08c6f552	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-12	CC	<home>	0c51da37	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-12	CC	<home>	1160b305	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-12	CC	<home>	1d810188	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-12	CC	<home>	231eecc8	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-12	CC	<home>	299abd08	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-12	CC	<home>	2d04d6ef	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-12	CC	<home>	31199513	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-12	CC	<home>	452d177b	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-12	CC	<home>	47502062	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-12	CC	<home>	50fd8761	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-12	CC	<home>	6b5e6c66	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-12	CC	<home>	6f37895d	0	0	no_repo

Generated 2026-08-13 13:00 UTC from ~/ideas/pal/dashboards/token_burn.jsonl (923 rows). Sources: ~/.codex/sessions/ (exact), ~/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/ (exact). No estimate lane currently active.