Burn is not proof. Output is not victory. Accepted work that repeats is leverage.
pal accounted for 2.8M accepted tokens.pal/dashboards accounted for 1.7M accepted tokens.las accounted for 1.4M accepted tokens.mainstay-av shows a 0.0 acceptance ratio, despite having 3.8M unsettled tokens.<home> has an acceptance ratio of 0.0, and its waste volume is 22.5M.mainstay-av has the largest unsettled volume at 3.8M (from mainstay-av/docs/entity on 2026-08-24).<home> directory generated 22.5M in waste tokens.A subagent spawn forks its parent, so the child starts holding the parent's whole transcript and the same conversation is charged once per fork, on every turn. The fork amplification details are: root 019fee2e-1781, 13 threads, 12 forks, max depth 2, charged 579.6M, replay 95.7%, output 1.8M, cost per output 315.8. Agents involved are Averroes, Copernicus, Faraday, Galileo, Halley, Hooke.
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).pal + 5af22ad7 + 2026-08-21 + pal + 1.4M — suggested verdict: review (open_loop, 1.4M burn — worth looking).pal + 5af22ad7 + 2026-08-20 + pal + 476K — suggested verdict: not_useful (open_loop, 476K burn — small miss).mainstay-av + 5af22ad7 + 2026-08-21 + mainstay-av/docs/entity + 233K — suggested verdict: not_useful (open_loop, 233K burn — small miss).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).The pal project has a high acceptance ratio of 0.586, but it also contributed to the 1.4M unsettled burn on 2026-08-21 in mainstay-av's big spender list.
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Measurability caveat (generated, not model-authored): <home> (22.5M) 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.
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.
Each cell = one UTC day, color intensity = log10(active tokens). Hover for date + counts.
| Date | Active | Spend | Sessions | Top project | Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-28 | 34.5M | 1.78B | 47 | <home> (29.6M) | ?=50 |
| 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 |
| Project | Active | |
|---|---|---|
| <home> | 22.5M | |
| pal | 4.7M | |
| mainstay-av | 3.8M | |
| pal/dashboards | 1.7M | |
| las | 1.5M | |
| pal/templari | 257K | |
| memory | 87K | |
| Downloads | 83K | |
| .claude | 60K | |
| templari | 27K | |
| hooks | 25K | |
| dreamweaver | 25K |
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.
| Project | Accepted | Ratio | Mix |
|---|---|---|---|
| pal | 4.6M | 51% | |
| pal/dashboards | 1.7M | 100% | |
| las | 1.4M | 59% | |
| memory | 606K | 39% | |
| pal/templari | 427K | 98% | |
| mainstay-av | 0 | 0% |
| Project | Accepted | Ratio | Mix |
|---|---|---|---|
| <home> | 0 | 0% | |
| payday | 0 | 0% | |
| dreamweaver | 0 | 0% | |
| panacea-ai | 0 | 0% | |
| mainstay-av | 0 | 0% | |
| pal/placeholders | 0 | 0% |
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 |
| 2026-08-14 | dreamweaver | d476d902 | 2.2M | open_loop | .../dreamweaver/.worktrees/deploy-main |
| 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 |
| 2026-08-12 | pal/placeholders | d476d902 | 1.2M | open_loop | .../pal/placeholders |
| 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 |
| 2026-08-23 | ideas | d33e7f08 | 2K | open_loop | /home/khoward/ideas |
Latest enriched rows from the JSONL (sorted by date desc, active desc as tiebreaker). M = manually labeled.
| Date | Tool | Project | Session | Active | Output | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-24 | CC | mainstay-av | 5af22ad7 | 1.8M | 21K | open_loop |
| 2026-08-24 | CC | <home> | d33e7f08 | 580K | 44K | no_repo |
| 2026-08-24 | CC | las | d33e7f08 | 146K | 58K | open_loop |
| 2026-08-24 | CC | Downloads | 5af22ad7 | 83K | 21K | no_repo |
| 2026-08-24 | CC | mainstay-av | d33e7f08 | 28K | 9K | open_loop |
| 2026-08-24 | CC | pal | d33e7f08 | 27K | 14K | open_loop |
| 2026-08-24 | CC | templari | d33e7f08 | 27K | 12K | open_loop |
| 2026-08-24 | CC | <home> | 0a4d3006 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-24 | CC | <home> | 1e7fe956 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-24 | CC | <home> | 1fa95ef3 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-24 | CC | <home> | 2c077447 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-24 | CC | <home> | 2c743bf2 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-24 | CC | <home> | 490e2bc7 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-24 | CC | <home> | 53a00c4d | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-24 | CC | <home> | 79f18e81 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-24 | CC | <home> | 8437c2d7 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-24 | CC | <home> | d75d6a5c | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-24 | CC | <home> | e53e77c5 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-24 | CC | <home> | feda59ad | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-23 | CC | <home> | d33e7f08 | 247K | 22K | no_repo |
| 2026-08-23 | CC | pal | d33e7f08 | 68K | 9K | open_loop |
| 2026-08-23 | CC | memory | d33e7f08 | 23K | 1K | open_loop |
| 2026-08-23 | CC | pal/memory | d33e7f08 | 14K | 2K | open_loop |
| 2026-08-23 | CC | pal/templari | d33e7f08 | 11K | 3K | open_loop |
| 2026-08-23 | CC | ideas | d33e7f08 | 2K | 888 | open_loop |
| 2026-08-23 | CC | <home> | 06c34a2e | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-23 | CC | <home> | 0b6e5bec | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-23 | CC | <home> | 1c8807b3 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-23 | CC | <home> | 2994ab12 | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
| 2026-08-23 | CC | <home> | 3fdc818b | 0 | 0 | no_repo |
Generated 2026-08-24 13:00 UTC from ~/ideas/pal/dashboards/token_burn.jsonl (999 rows). Sources: ~/.codex/sessions/ (exact), ~/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/ (exact). No estimate lane currently active.