Token Burn

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

today · in flight

714K active

14 sessions · spend 7.2M · Claude Code 714K
by project: las 689K · <home> 19K · pal/templari 4K
top session d33e7f08 (las, 689K, —)

2026-08-28
as of 2026-08-28T13:00:18Z

Stupid button · 29m ago · gemma4:e4b · 3337t in / 838t out · 119.3s

Trend vs last week

Accepted tokens are down 8.7M (-100.0%) vs last week.
Unsettled tokens are up 2.0M (75.5%) vs last week.
Waste tokens are down 25.3M (-96.3%) vs last week.

What worked

No projects show any accepted active tokens this week.

What wasted tokens

las shows a 0.0 acceptance ratio despite being measurable.
<home> shows an acceptance ratio of 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". This incurred 892K in waste tokens.
mainstay-av shows a 0.0 acceptance ratio despite being measurable.
The largest waste volume is 892K from <home>.

Why the big number is big

No agent fan-out this window.

What needs a verdict

mainstay-av + 5af22ad7 + 2026-08-24 + mainstay-av/docs/entity + 1.8M — suggested_verdict: review. (open_loop, 1.8M burn — worth looking)
mainstay-av + 5af22ad7 + 2026-08-22 + mainstay-av/docs/entity + 1.8M — suggested_verdict: review. (open_loop, 1.8M burn — worth looking)
las + d33e7f08 + 2026-08-28 + las + 689K — suggested_verdict: review. (PR open — work in flight)
las + d33e7f08 + 2026-08-24 + las + 146K — suggested_verdict: not_useful. (open_loop, 146K burn — small miss)
pal + d33e7f08 + 2026-08-23 + pal + 68K — suggested_verdict: not_useful. (open_loop, 68K burn — small miss)
mainstay-av + d33e7f08 + 2026-08-24 + mainstay-av/apps/worker + 28K — suggested_verdict: not_useful. (open_loop, 28K burn — small miss)
pal + d33e7f08 + 2026-08-24 + pal + 27K — suggested_verdict: not_useful. (open_loop, 27K burn — small miss)
templari + d33e7f08 + 2026-08-24 + templari + 27K — suggested_verdict: not_useful. (open_loop, 27K burn — small miss)

One contrarian observation

The <home> project has 160 sessions but 0.0 acceptance ratio, 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".

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Measurability caveat (generated, not model-authored): <home> (892K) 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

0 accepted

unsettled 4.6M · acceptance 0%

spend 90.5M · 161 sessions · Claude Code 5.5M / Codex 47K

Last 30 days

8.7M accepted

unsettled 131.3M · acceptance 5%

spend 7.17B · 668 sessions · Claude Code 131.1M / Codex 36.2M

Last 90 days

8.7M accepted

unsettled 282.4M · acceptance 3%

spend 11.73B · 798 sessions · Claude Code 211.0M / Codex 107.3M

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	42	<home> (29.6M)	?=45
2026-08-01	24.5M	1.57B	10	payday (6.1M)	?=20
2026-07-16	23.3M	797.0M	24	<home> (16.3M)	?=27
2026-07-31	23.1M	2.10B	9	payday (8.1M)	?=34
2026-08-18	22.3M	554.5M	38	<home> (21.6M)	no_repo=38 · accepted=5 · PRs #27
2026-07-30	19.4M	645.3M	26	payday (16.5M)	?=31
2026-07-21	18.3M	337.5M	2	<home> (9.1M)	?=4
2026-08-06	16.5M	592.1M	51	<home> (12.0M)	?=58
2026-07-29	11.2M	118.2M	25	payday (10.8M)	?=27
2026-07-24	10.3M	401.9M	2	las (5.9M)	?=4

By project — last 7 days

Project	Active
mainstay-av	3.6M
<home>	892K
las	835K
pal	97K
Downloads	83K
templari	27K
memory	23K
pal/templari	14K
pal/memory	14K
ideas	2K

By outcome — last 7 days

committed 1 #17 (OPEN)

open_loop 13

no_repo 163

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
pal	4.6M	51%
pal/dashboards	1.7M	100%
las	1.4M	45%
memory	606K	39%
pal/templari	427K	97%
mainstay-av	0	0%

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

Project	Accepted	Ratio	Mix
dreamweaver	0	0%
<home>	0	0%
payday	0	0%
panacea-ai	0	0%
mainstay-av	0	0%
pal/placeholders	0	0%

Needs validation — last 14 days (22 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
2026-08-24	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
2026-08-21	pal	5af22ad7	1.4M	open_loop	.../pal
2026-08-28	las	d33e7f08	689K	committed · #17 (OPEN)	.../las
2026-08-20	pal	5af22ad7	476K	open_loop	.../pal
2026-08-17	pal	83ba2858	388K	open_loop	.../pal
2026-08-21	mainstay-av	5af22ad7	233K	open_loop	.../mainstay-av/docs/entity
2026-08-24	las	d33e7f08	146K	open_loop	.../las
2026-08-23	pal	d33e7f08	68K	open_loop	.../pal
2026-08-16	panacea-ai	83ba2858	53K	open_loop	.../panacea-ai
2026-08-16	dreamweaver	83ba2858	41K	open_loop	.../dreamweaver
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
2026-08-19	dreamweaver	5af22ad7	25K	open_loop	.../dreamweaver
2026-08-23	memory	d33e7f08	23K	open_loop	/home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory
2026-08-23	pal/memory	d33e7f08	14K	open_loop	.../pal/memory
2026-08-23	pal/templari	d33e7f08	11K	open_loop	.../pal/templari
2026-08-15	memory	83ba2858	6K	open_loop	/home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory
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

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
2026-08-28	CC	las	d33e7f08	689K	8K	committed #17
2026-08-28	Codex	<home>	01a04624	20K	1K	no_repo
2026-08-28	CC	<home>	d33e7f08	19K	8K	no_repo
2026-08-28	Codex	<home>	01a04625	14K	2K	no_repo
2026-08-28	Codex	<home>	01a04625	13K	800	no_repo
2026-08-28	CC	pal/templari	d33e7f08	4K	892	open_loop
2026-08-28	CC	pal	d33e7f08	2K	786	open_loop
2026-08-28	CC	<home>	1baede98	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-28	CC	<home>	1d3ae782	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-28	CC	<home>	23cf70c9	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-28	CC	<home>	54d3dad4	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-28	CC	<home>	707e745c	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-28	CC	<home>	a6047875	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-28	CC	<home>	aac72099	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-28	CC	<home>	bb46d303	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-28	CC	<home>	d117989f	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-28	CC	<home>	d20c12d5	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-28	CC	<home>	d3202d20	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-28	CC	<home>	f43b9fd7	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-27	CC	<home>	0d503970	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-27	CC	<home>	267a3c40	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-27	CC	<home>	27e041fa	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-27	CC	<home>	2d3282eb	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-27	CC	<home>	51fcbda2	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-27	CC	<home>	569df9d9	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-27	CC	<home>	5e678fc8	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-27	CC	<home>	69935161	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-27	CC	<home>	7d188961	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-27	CC	<home>	871b5fb3	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-27	CC	<home>	912c1bd9	0	0	no_repo

Generated 2026-08-28 13:00 UTC from ~/ideas/pal/dashboards/token_burn.jsonl (989 rows). Sources: ~/.codex/sessions/ (exact), ~/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/ (exact). No estimate lane currently active.