Token Burn

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

today · in flight

1.8M active

14 sessions · spend 48.8M · Claude Code 1.8M
by project: pal 1.1M · memory 542K · panacea-ai 53K
top session 83ba2858 (pal, 1.1M, —)

2026-08-16
as of 2026-08-16T13:00:11Z

Stupid button · 29m ago · gemma4:e4b · 3286t in / 659t out · 101.8s

Trend vs last week

Accepted tokens are DOWN 11.3M (-100.0%) versus last week (11286541 → 0).
Unsettled tokens are UP 8.9M (+170.0%) versus last week (5227738 → 14112943).
Waste tokens are DOWN 15.8M (-80.8%) versus last week (19603550 → 3754332).

What worked

No projects show any accepted token burn this week (accepted_active_h is "0" for all listed projects).

What wasted tokens

The <home> project accounts for the largest waste volume at "2.9M" (waste_active_h). Its acceptance ratio is 0.0.
The pal/placeholders project shows significant unsettled burn ("3.0M") with an acceptance ratio of 0.0.
The tmp project contributes "851K" in waste tokens, also with a 0.0 acceptance ratio.

What needs a verdict

dreamweaver + d476d902 + 2026-08-12 + dreamweaver/.worktrees/deploy-main: review (open_loop, 6.5M burn — worth looking)
dreamweaver + d476d902 + 2026-08-14 + dreamweaver/.worktrees/deploy-main: review (open_loop, 2.2M burn — worth looking)
pal/placeholders + d476d902 + 2026-08-10 + pal/placeholders: review (open_loop, 1.8M burn — worth looking)
dreamweaver + d476d902 + 2026-08-10 + dreamweaver: review (open_loop, 1.6M burn — worth looking)
pal/placeholders + d476d902 + 2026-08-12 + pal/placeholders: review (open_loop, 1.2M burn — worth looking)
memory + 83ba2858 + 2026-08-16 + /home/khoward/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/memory: review (open_loop, 542K burn — worth looking)
pal + 83ba2858 + 2026-08-16 + pal: not_useful (open_loop, 165K burn — small miss)

One contrarian observation

The <home> project has a high number of sessions (158), but its acceptance ratio is 0.0.

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 14.1M · acceptance 0%

spend 386.9M · 159 sessions · Claude Code 16.5M / Codex 1.4M

Last 30 days

11.3M accepted

unsettled 210.2M · acceptance 5%

spend 9.67B · 638 sessions · Claude Code 203.3M / Codex 41.5M

Last 90 days

11.3M accepted

unsettled 275.5M · acceptance 4%

spend 11.20B · 758 sessions · Claude Code 214.2M / Codex 96.0M

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
2026-08-01	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	10.4M
pal/placeholders	3.0M
<home>	2.9M
tmp	851K
memory	548K
pal	165K
panacea-ai	53K
wt-deploy	11K

By outcome — last 7 days

open_loop 10

no_repo 162

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	731K	32%
wt-cifix	60K	100%
pal/memory	22K	11%
pal/bin	1K	100%
memory	0	0%

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

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

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.

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
2026-08-16	pal	83ba2858	165K	open_loop	.../pal
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	29K	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
2026-08-16	CC	memory	83ba2858	542K	447	open_loop
2026-08-16	CC	pal	83ba2858	165K	24K	open_loop
2026-08-16	CC	panacea-ai	83ba2858	53K	16K	open_loop
2026-08-16	CC	dreamweaver	83ba2858	29K	11K	open_loop
2026-08-16	CC	<home>	0382ce2c	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>	59157f65	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-16	CC	<home>	786945a3	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-16	CC	<home>	be0b8956	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-16	CC	<home>	c35d0458	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-16	CC	<home>	cf20ece1	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-16	CC	<home>	e4e2ce62	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-16	CC	<home>	f2afffa0	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-16	CC	<home>	f89c4335	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-15	CC	<home>	83ba2858	1.2M	69K	no_repo
2026-08-15	CC	tmp	83ba2858	64K	26K	no_repo
2026-08-15	CC	memory	83ba2858	6K	2K	open_loop
2026-08-15	CC	<home>	0848c625	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-15	CC	<home>	0d1a47c5	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-15	CC	<home>	0fbd074d	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-15	CC	<home>	1253602f	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-15	CC	<home>	14c2d81c	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-15	CC	<home>	17f7675d	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-15	CC	<home>	1a54066f	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-15	CC	<home>	1bb92c79	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-15	CC	<home>	2487f46e	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-15	CC	<home>	2b155955	0	0	no_repo
2026-08-15	CC	<home>	664b773d	0	0	no_repo

Generated 2026-08-16 13:00 UTC from ~/ideas/pal/dashboards/token_burn.jsonl (916 rows). Sources: ~/.codex/sessions/ (exact), ~/.claude/projects/-home-khoward/ (exact). No estimate lane currently active.