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 0d962db5 (<home>, 0, —)

2026-08-17
as of 2026-08-17T12:55:07Z

Stupid button · 24m ago · gemma4:e4b · 3266t in / 572t out · 84.8s

Trend vs last week

Accepted tokens are DOWN 9.3M (-82.1%) vs last week.
Unsettled tokens are UP 1.8M (21.3%) vs last week.
Waste tokens are DOWN 15.5M (-80.4%) vs last week.

What worked

pal shipped 1.8M in accepted active tokens.
pal/templari shipped 180K in accepted active tokens.

What wasted tokens

<home> shows a 0.0 acceptance ratio and generated 2.9M in waste active tokens.
tmp has an acceptance ratio of 0.0, with 867K in waste active tokens.
dreamweaver is flagged for high unsettled volume (8.7M) but has a 0.0 acceptance ratio.

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 + 2026-08-14 + dreamweaver/.worktrees/deploy-main: suggested_verdict is "review". (open_loop, 2.2M burn — worth looking)
pal/placeholders + d476d902 + 2026-08-12 + pal/placeholders: suggested_verdict is "review". (open_loop, 1.2M burn — worth looking)
memory + 83ba2858 + 2026-08-16 + /home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory: suggested_verdict is "review". (open_loop, 542K burn — worth looking)
panacea-ai + 83ba2858 + 2026-08-16 + panacea-ai: suggested_verdict is "not_useful". (open_loop, 53K burn — small miss)

One contrarian observation

The <home> project generated 2.9M in waste active tokens while having a 0.0 acceptance ratio.

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 10.5M · acceptance 12%

spend 298.2M · 159 sessions · Claude Code 15.0M / Codex 1.4M

Last 30 days

13.3M accepted

unsettled 202.6M · acceptance 6%

spend 9.67B · 638 sessions · Claude Code 197.5M / Codex 41.5M

Last 90 days

13.3M accepted

unsettled 275.1M · acceptance 4%

spend 11.25B · 781 sessions · Claude Code 216.1M / Codex 95.4M

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
2026-08-01	24.5M	1.57B	10	payday (6.1M)	?=20
2026-07-16	23.3M	797.2M	17	<home> (16.3M)	?=20
2026-07-31	23.1M	2.10B	9	payday (8.1M)	?=34
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	8.7M
<home>	2.9M
pal	1.8M
pal/placeholders	1.2M
tmp	867K
memory	548K
pal/templari	180K
panacea-ai	53K
wt-deploy	11K

By outcome — last 7 days

accepted 2 #26 (MERGED)

open_loop 7

no_repo 164

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	10.5M	30%
pal	2.6M	65%
pal/templari	180K	100%
wt-cifix	60K	100%
pal/memory	22K	11%
pal/bin	1K	100%

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

Project	Accepted	Ratio	Mix
<home>	0	0%
payday	0	0%
panacea-ai	0	0%
las	0	0%
wasatch-valley-fence	0	0%
wasatch-digital-assets-site	0	0%

Needs validation — last 14 days (18 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
2026-08-14	dreamweaver	d476d902	2.2M	open_loop	.../dreamweaver/.worktrees/deploy-main
2026-08-10	pal/placeholders	d476d902	1.8M	open_loop	.../pal/placeholders
2026-08-10	dreamweaver	d476d902	1.6M	open_loop	.../dreamweaver
2026-08-12	pal/placeholders	d476d902	1.2M	open_loop	.../pal/placeholders
2026-08-04	panacea-ai	2fba23ce	543K	open_loop	.../panacea-ai
2026-08-16	memory	83ba2858	542K	open_loop	/home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory
2026-08-06	memory	ec185e82	473K	open_loop	/home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory
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
2026-08-07	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
2026-08-16	panacea-ai	83ba2858	53K	open_loop	.../panacea-ai
2026-08-16	dreamweaver	83ba2858	41K	open_loop	.../dreamweaver
2026-08-06	memory	006e4690	10K	open_loop	/home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory
2026-08-15	memory	83ba2858	6K	open_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.

Date	Tool	Project	Session	Active	Output	Outcome
2026-08-17	CC	<home>	0d962db5	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-17	CC	<home>	0dd7a091	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-17	CC	<home>	194c9ce7	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-17	CC	<home>	3cd84a7c	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-17	CC	<home>	75f23eda	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-17	CC	<home>	aced5fd6	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-17	CC	<home>	cc760299	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-17	CC	<home>	e32b96f9	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-17	CC	<home>	ebe0ca94	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-17	CC	<home>	ec2b862a	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-17	CC	<home>	efea4e95	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-17	CC	<home>	f5aecd69	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-16	CC	pal	83ba2858	1.8M	146K	accepted #26
2026-08-16	CC	memory	83ba2858	542K	447	open_loop
2026-08-16	CC	pal/templari	83ba2858	180K	80K	accepted #26
2026-08-16	CC	panacea-ai	83ba2858	53K	16K	open_loop
2026-08-16	CC	dreamweaver	83ba2858	41K	20K	open_loop
2026-08-16	CC	<home>	83ba2858	16K	5K	no_repo
2026-08-16	CC	tmp	83ba2858	16K	6K	no_repo
2026-08-16	CC	<home>	0382ce2c	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-16	CC	<home>	0c19e8dc	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-16	CC	<home>	17860196	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-16	CC	<home>	2ef3308d	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-16	CC	<home>	3595b0c8	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-16	CC	<home>	3e05bf5c	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-16	CC	<home>	41324c91	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-16	CC	<home>	4292e5b3	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-16	CC	<home>	532ab4ff	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-16	CC	<home>	5484fc1b	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-16	CC	<home>	59157f65	0	0	no_repo

Generated 2026-08-17 12:55 UTC from ~/ideas/pal/dashboards/token_burn.jsonl (941 rows). Sources: ~/.codex/sessions/ (exact), ~/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/ (exact). No estimate lane currently active.