Per owner decision: the binary 'burning code' flame is the mark
everywhere, matching the app's identity as a code-cost tool. Desktop
app icon + FlameMark (splash/sidebar/About/dock), menubar dock icon,
brand logo, and local dashboard all use the binary flame.
Patch release: Windows bundled-CLI fix (was not-found on 100% of
Windows), enriched cli_error telemetry, and the unified solid-flame
brand. CLI/menubar stay 0.9.16 (no changes needing an npm/menubar
republish; the desktop bundles current main's CLI).
path.startsWith('/') POSIX guard rejected the Windows bundled-CLI path
(C:\...\launch.js), so 100% of Windows installs got not-found
(confirmed in telemetry: 84 events, all win32/x64). Use path.isAbsolute
everywhere. cli_error now carries {cmd, kind, detail?} for
self-diagnosing errors, never paths/args/stderr.
Retires the binary-digit flame (which muddied below ~256px) in favor
of the original solid flame everywhere: desktop app icon + FlameMark
(splash, sidebar, About, dock), menubar dock icon, brand logo. One
consistent mark that stays crisp at every size, matching the website
favicon and local dashboard.
The AppImage-only Linux build hit users with a no-application-installed
error on double-click, because AppImages do not self-register and need
chmod plus libfuse2 on newer distros. Add deb and rpm electron-builder
targets so Linux users get a native install that lands in the app menu
with no manual steps; the deb ships a .desktop entry for exactly that.
README hero grid now lists Debian/.deb, Fedora/.rpm, and AppImage
alongside the macOS and Windows buttons, and the desktop release notes
explain the deb/rpm path plus the AppImage FUSE requirement.
Checks the GitHub releases for newer desktop-v tags once per launch
and every 24h (15s timeout, no identifying headers, offline = silent
retry). A dismissible banner and a Settings About row surface the
newer version and link the release page; dismissal persists per
version so each release nags at most once. No auto-install: unsigned
builds cannot, by platform constraint; the checker only notifies.
App 364/364 (+24), typechecks + build green.
Energy (field report: ~3x Chrome drain):
- polls skip entirely while the window is hidden/minimized, with one
catch-up refresh on return when data is stale; visible-but-unfocused
keeps polling (second-monitor case)
- all looping animations pause under html.page-hidden (the sidebar
flame flicker was a perpetual compositor drain)
- default cadence 60s; an explicit stored choice is always honored
Currency (field report: set USD, still saw EUR):
- memo-served payloads re-applied their embedded stale currency; config
mutations now purge the renderer memo and force-refresh, and a
switching payload can never overwrite the applied currency
- USD default verified end to end
Measured: hidden window = 0 new CLI spawns over 5 cadences (was: full
polling forever). App 340/340, build + package green.
- prefetch fires exactly once per provider per session; memo sized to
detected providers so base keys never evict (was: 12 full-history
parses every 30s forever from LRU thrash re-triggering the effect)
- day-aggregator buckets whole turns by user-message timestamp,
matching the report/headline path: trend bars and provider breakdown
now reconcile exactly (midnight-straddling turns were split);
DAILY_CACHE_VERSION 13 with an IANA tz guard that rehydrates when
the cache crosses timezones
- overview's redundant second all-provider scan collapsed (~11% faster
warm); numbers parity-guarded
- lock takeover cleans stale hydrating.lock; SIGINT/SIGTERM release it
- scanner skips EPERM/EACCES provider dirs (progress shows skipped)
instead of aborting; onboarding hints Full Disk Access
- rateLimited quota copy render tests; export -f json emits valid
empty JSON when no data
Root 2023 (+4), app 327 (+3), typechecks clean.
Coalesced overview polls joined to one stuck cold child each emitted
their own cold_start on the shared settle, measured from their own
start times — producing laddered pseudo-durations in telemetry.
Launch-scoped latch emits at most once, on the first cold attempt's
settle, with that attempt's duration; timedOut wiring and local-day
stamps verified already correct and locked with regression tests.
App 324/324.
P0: an interrupted cold hydration left partial caches that the
emptiness check read as warm — the daily backfill froze (missing older
days) while session parsing healed gradually (drifting totals),
poisoning every surface sharing the cache. Both caches now carry an
explicit complete marker: partial resumes cold under the hydration
lock; unmarked caches self-heal with one re-hydration. Regression test
seeds the exact frozen artifact and asserts bit-for-bit convergence
with a never-interrupted run.
- splash indexing reveals only on genuinely cold scans (explicit cold
flag in the progress protocol), never on warm incremental re-parses
- uncached filter switches clear to skeleton instead of showing the
previous filter's numbers; cached switches paint same-commit;
background prefetch warms every detected provider after idle
- build stamp (git sha + date) in splash and About ends build ambiguity
- payload parity test: identical payloads on identical cache, and
payload totals equal the CLI report path
- Sessions empty state keeps the provider filter row; zero savings
line hidden; TCC usage-description strings + Full Disk Access docs
- warm profile documented: optimize scan ~1.47s dominant (safe
refactor deferred), parse ~1s, aggregation ~30ms
Root 1848, app 320, typechecks clean.
A 4xx response means the server will never accept that payload;
retrying it wedges the queue at its cap and blocks all newer events.
Drop on 4xx, keep retrying on 5xx and network failures. Matches the
server's validation contract (batch cap 200).
Performance and coherence:
- Settings > General 'Refresh every' (Manual/30s/1m/3m/5m/10m), live via
RefreshCadenceContext; Manual polls only on demand
- usePolled memoKey LRU: provider/period switches paint the last-good
result instantly with a switching hairline while refreshing quietly
- quota TTL 5min + honest rate-limited copy on 429 backoff
- version-suffixed cache files (session-cache.v5.json, daily-cache.v12,
auto-minted on future bumps); legacy files never written or deleted,
adopted once when versions match: old and new binaries coexist
without clobbering (field-observed menubar-vs-desktop ping-pong)
- advisory hydration lock: concurrent cold starts share one scan
(wait-then-read-warm), stale/dead locks self-heal, never a
correctness gate
Telemetry v1 + onboarding (desktop only, per owner decisions):
- first-launch onboarding (3 feature screens + consent); region-split
default (EU/EEA/UK/CH off, elsewhere on, unknown off); nothing sends
before consent completion or while off; dev builds never send
- anonymous install UUID, rotated on opt-out; day-granularity events,
cost buckets only; whitelisted names; 200-event queue, 5min flush
- Settings > Privacy live toggle replaces the static claim
Zero computed-number changes. App 316/316, root 1805.
Wire contract targets api.codeburn.app/v1/telemetry (Worker follows).
The per-provider ingest list rendered a dozen stacked text rows on
machines with many detected providers. Now one status line with live
tabular-numeral counts (Indexing Claude · 240/699), a single strip of
15px provider logos (dim pending, pulse active, settled done), and a
muted one-time-scan note. ~3 lines of vertical footprint, 340px max
width; reduced motion drops the pulse; warm launches never see it.
Root cause of the field-reported 45s timeout + perpetual slowness: on
a cold cache all six sections spawned different CLI subcommands at
once, each running its own full-history parse (~11-31s, ~3GB RSS),
contending past the 45s kill so the rebuilt cache never persisted and
every poll restarted from zero.
- the first overview fetch runs as a warmup: 10-minute timeout,
re-arms until it succeeds, reverts to 45s after; section polls gate
on that first resolution (usePolled gains enabled), so cold
hydration happens exactly once
- warmup streams the CLI's progress protocol; the splash shows 'First
run: indexing your usage history' with a per-provider ingest list
(logo, live counts, check on done), static under reduced motion,
generic fallback without events; warm launches unchanged
- overview spawns pass --no-timeline (desktop never renders it)
Measured on real data: cold 31s once (was: killed at 45s forever),
warm 2.6s. 295/295 app, 1797 root.
The packaged app resolved whatever codeburn was on PATH — for real
users the published npm release, which predates every JSON surface the
app calls. The app now ships its own CLI copy under resources/cli
(staged production node_modules tree; tsup output is not
self-contained) and spawns it with Electron's own binary via
ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE. No install prerequisite remains.
- resolution order: CODEBURN_BIN, dev repo CLI, bundled, persisted
path, PATH search
- launch.js shim strips the extra argv element commander mis-slices
under packaged Electron-as-node (process.versions.electron is set),
which reproduced the 'too many arguments' class of error
- afterPack hook copies the staged tree (extraResources runs
node_modules through the production-dep filter and ships it empty);
lands before signing, signature verified intact
- packaging always restages from src via root build:cli (tsup only,
no network); ~12MB compressed per artifact
Verified on the built app: Electron-as-node CLI emits current JSON
(providerDetails, currency), and a minimal-PATH GUI launch spawns the
bundled CLI with zero external dependencies. 290/290.
Same model via different providers (MiniMax M3 x3) was
indistinguishable: rows now carry providerDisplayName in both lenses.
The provider dropdown and Sessions quick-filter no longer hide detected
providers with zero spend in the current period (Hermes was invisible
while Settings listed it); entries sort by cost, zero-spend last.
Settings Providers pane keyed logos by lowercased display names
('grok build' never matched THEMED_LOGOS 'grok'); rows now come from
providerDetails ids like the rest of the app. 20 official marks added
from the repo's own assets (hermes, openclaw, antigravity, kiro, devin,
cline, roo-code, ...) and unknown providers render a first-letter
monogram badge so no detected provider is ever logoless.
GUI-launched apps inherit a minimal PATH without the user's node
install, so spawning the codeburn npm shim (#!/usr/bin/env node) failed
with 'env: node: No such file or directory' in packaged builds. Spawn
now augments PATH with the resolved binary's own directory (node sits
beside the shim in nvm, Homebrew, and npm-prefix layouts) plus the
resolver's search dirs. Dev never hit this because the terminal PATH
was inherited.
Field-verified on macOS 15+: an ad-hoc-signed quarantined download gets
the damaged/move-to-Trash dialog and right-click Open does not bypass
it; the quarantine strip is the reliable path. Also updates the
Releases section to the hyphenated CodeBurn-Setup-<version>.exe
artifact name set via nsis.artifactName.
Cross-built from macOS alongside the existing mac config: nsis x64
(oneClick false, clean CodeBurn-Setup-<version>.exe artifact name) and
AppImage x64. DISTRIBUTION.md covers the new build commands, the
unsigned-build first-run steps per platform, and the desktop-v<version>
release tag convention the website pins.
A packaged DMG on a machine without the CLI opens into the 'CLI not
found' state; the distribution doc now says so up front, with the
install command and the future bundle-the-CLI path.
electron-builder config with ad-hoc signing (identity "-", not null,
which skips signing and breaks Apple Silicon), dmg+zip for arm64 and
x64, org.agentseal.codeburn-desktop bundle id matching the menubar
convention, icon reused from build/icon.png. DISTRIBUTION.md documents
the build, verification, the Gatekeeper first-open steps for
unnotarized builds, and the later paid-notarization upgrade path.
The h264 loader baked a flat dark background that read as a rectangle
against the splash's warm radial tint. Re-encoded from the original as
VP9 WebM with an alpha channel (checker keyed to transparency), so the
burning flame composites directly onto the gradient. Verified over a
contrasting test canvas.
273/273, typecheck + build green.
Root causes (verified live): the Claude keychain branch was never
enabled (allowClaudeKeychain never passed), security -w returns
hex-encoded JSON the parser rejected, and Codex had no keychain
discovery at all.
- shared readKeychainPassword: Apple-signed /usr/bin/security, 90s
window so the user can answer the macOS dialog, hex decode,
notFound vs accessDenied classification; secrets never logged
- Claude: keychain fallback active (gated to explicit Refresh so
launch never ambushes with a dialog); connection retained across
keychain-less background polls
- Codex sources in order: the menubar's own cached OAuth (read-only,
401 = one re-read, never rotate), legacy ~/.codex/auth.json
(writable), com.openai.codex plaintext if usable; Safe Storage
never decrypted
- new accessDenied state (amber, 'locked') + ConnectAffordance on
Plans cards and Settings rows: login command, keychain-Allow note,
force Refresh
Live verification: Claude connected with its real tier and windows;
Codex correctly accessDenied until the keychain dialog is allowed.
273/273 (26 files), typecheck + build green.
New owner-approved art: the binary-digit flame. Checkerboard keyed out,
largest-component masking to drop glow-zone checker fringe, clean
synthetic ember glow rebuilt; composited to the Big Sur squircle as
app/build/icon.png and squared with alpha as the in-app FlameMark
raster (sidebar, About, static splash).
The supplied burn animation becomes the splash loader: checker keyed
per-frame and the splash's fixed dark canvas (#171310) baked in (h264
has no alpha), audio stripped, 944KB looping video shown while the
first scan runs. Splash canvas and text colors are now theme-fixed so
video and page never diverge; reduced motion/tests keep the static
mark, verified by test.
Flame/splash/motion suites green in isolation (full suite re-verified
when the in-flight quota batch commits); typecheck + build green.
The owner supplied the final flame render; the hand-retrace is retired.
Checkerboard keyed out to real alpha, composited to the Big Sur squircle
(824/1024, r185, charcoal #231613) as app/build/icon.png (the
electron-builder master, verified legible at 16px), and the flame-only
alpha PNG becomes the in-app mark: FlameMark now renders the raster so
splash, sidebar, About and dock are pixel-identical. Flicker applies to
the whole mark (raster has no separable core). Stale icon.svg removed.
Flame suites green in isolation; full suite re-verified before the
in-flight quota batch commits.
- app/build/icon.svg + icon.png: hand-retraced vector of the approved
reference (three flat layers: coral #e86c39, amber #f7943c, cream
#fecb8b on charcoal #231613), Big Sur squircle proportions (824/1024,
r185, transparent corners, no glow), flame ~72% optically centered;
8 render-and-compare iterations against the reference; legible at 16px
- FlameMark retraced to the same three paths (flat fills, no gradients);
flicker now animates the cream core only
- AboutModal renders FlameMark instead of the old gradient flame.png;
orphaned 70KB asset removed
253/253, typecheck + build green.
CodeBurn wordmark on the splash now uses --accent (matching the
website/sidebar brand treatment) with the app version (v0.1.0, from
package.json at build time) in muted small text below. App version
bumped 0.0.0 -> 0.1.0.
253/253, build green.
Detected subscriptions card (Claude/Codex): auto-detected tier from the
live quota with a connect hint when logged out — like the menubar,
never a fixed preset. Manual budget presets now only for providers
without OAuth quota (Cursor/SuperGrok); configured claude/codex manual
plans stay listed for removal with a superseded note. The Plans
dashboard already excludes them next to the authoritative live quota.
Replaces the rejected hand-traced silhouette with Bootstrap Icons'
fire path (MIT, embedded with license note) — the flame.fill-style
teardrop with the inner tongue — filled with the menubar BurnFlame's
actual Ember gradient from the Swift theme (#f0a070 > #e8774a >
#c9521d > #8b3e13, bottom to top), not the brighter accent ramp.
Flicker hook moves to the whole mark (single compound path).
Also: .splash-word snapped to var(--fs-kpi).
The motion batch gave five sections shimmer skeletons on first load but
missed Compare and Models' Audit lens (both still showed bare loading
text in an empty panel). Same SectionSkeleton treatment now.
250/250.
Old-CLI fallback derived picker ids from providers-map keys (lowercased
display names); a key with a space ('grok build') passed to --provider
was rejected by the app's own validator, erroring the fetch and leaving
stale data under the new filter's header. Exclude keys that cannot
round-trip. (Primary fix is running the current CLI: rebuilt dist.)
- FlameMark: hand-traced inline SVG of the brand flame (~1.1KB, warm
3-stop gradients, useId-scoped), used at splash and sidebar sizes
- Splash: full-window first-load overlay echoing the menubar's
BurnLoadingOverlay ignite moment; 600ms floor so warm cache never
blinks, 250ms crossfade on first data, instant yield on error or
reduced motion, done-latch so it never reappears
- Sidebar logo replaced with the live FlameMark: 1-2% inner-tongue
flicker, 4.5s period, random phase; static under reduced motion
250/250, build green (+2.4KB JS, +1.8KB CSS).
- one gate (motionEnabled): off under reduced-motion, missing matchMedia,
and vitest; every path checks it first
- mount/filter-change only: count-up and bar grow-in key off the
period|provider|range key, so 30s poll refreshes snap values silently
instead of re-animating
- first-load skeleton shimmer replaces bare scanning text (kept sr-only
for screen readers); slide-in toast host for Settings/export feedback
(validation errors stay inline); CSS hover-lift + press micro-
interactions, all with a reduced-motion escape hatch
- gsap 3.15.0 + @gsap/react 2.1.2 (+74KB raw JS; G4 flame work shares it)
244/244, typecheck + build green.
Every var(--t1/--t2/--t3/--hair/--hair2) and secondary legacy color
(--lav/--amber/--red/--mint/--blue/--purple/--cyan) repointed to the
canonical family (--ink/--mut/--mut2/--line/--line2, --warn/--bad/--ok,
--s-*); all legacy definitions and the plain.css alias shim deleted.
The explicit dark/light theme blocks carried drifted legacy literals
(including a pre-contrast-fix --t3), so this also extends the AA
contrast values to all four theme modes, which previously disagreed
with system-light.
grep-proven zero legacy usages. 235/235, build green.
- Models gains an Audit lens: raw provider token fields vs displayed
totals and cost derivation per model, est badge where pricing is
missing or recomputed cost diverges from attributed
- Settings Pricing pane: list/add/remove price overrides (USD per 1M),
inline confirm on remove, only provided rates sent; rates validated
finite and strictly positive on both sides of the bridge
- four new IPC channels with the established validation pattern
Root 1617/1617, app 235/235, build green.
Replaces the three-rule anomaly card with a Wins/Improvements/Risks
Signals card mirroring the menubar's rule set and thresholds
(FindingsSection.swift): cache >=80% and one-shot >=0.75 and spend-down
>10% and streak >=5d as wins; top-3 optimize findings, low cache <50%,
low one-shot <0.5, retry tax >=25% of spend as improvements; weekday
spike >1.8x, week-over-week >+25%, projected month >1.3x prior month as
risks. Time-comparison rules suppressed under a custom range. Renders
nothing when empty; icons per group, never color-alone. Anomaly test
coverage ported, not deleted.
221/221, build green.
- Settings/General: Daily budget row (Off / USD amount / Tokens),
positive-finite validation, warns at 80% and alerts at 100%
- app-wide one-line banner above every section: --warn at 80%+, --bad
at 100%+, dismissible for the rest of the day
- USD caps compare raw USD against per-provider daily cost (works under
any filter); token caps evaluate only on the all-providers view since
provider-filtered history zeroes token fields (comparing against a
false zero would always pass)
212/212, build green.
- TopBar picker (shown only when >1 Claude config dir exists) threads
--claude-config-source through getOverview; synthetic 'All Claude
configs' entry returns to the aggregate default
- config id validation accepts the real <kind>:<16hex> id shape while
still rejecting flag-shaped input (leading char anchored)
- both incompatibility directions handled: selecting a config resets a
non-Claude provider filter, and picking a non-Claude provider clears
the config scope, so the CLI rejection is unreachable
- choice persisted (localStorage); active config shown in the scope
line and read-only in Settings/General
Verified live against 2 real config dirs. 205/205, build green.
- Sessions: All + per-provider logo buttons (detected, cost > 0) that
drive the same app-level provider state as the top-bar dropdown, so
the two controls can never disagree; aria-pressed group semantics
- Spend By project: rows expand inline (single-open, aria-expanded,
chevron rotation) to the project's sessions: date, top model, calls,
currency-aware cost; date-only strings parsed at local noon so days
never roll across time zones
194/194, typecheck + build green.
- will-navigate/window-open denied; openExternal restricted to http(s);
production CSP drops 'unsafe-inline' scripts (dev-only Vite plugin
re-adds it for the Fast Refresh preamble)
- single-instance lock; before-quit reaps in-flight CLI children; 16MB
output cap rejects with CliError 'too-large'
- read-only CLI spawns coalesce: concurrent identical calls share one
child, a 5s result cache absorbs same-cadence pollers (six sections
polled getOverview independently); actions bypass and flush the cache
on completion so post-action refetches are fresh
- every renderer-supplied argv string validated (period/provider/range/
currency allowlists, no flag-shaped tokens, absolute export path) with
new CliError kind 'bad-args'; envelope + action stderr routed through
sanitizeError
- quota force-refresh: manual refresh (refreshToken) passes force which
invalidates QuotaService's cache; steady polls do not
- POSIX credential mode check gated off on win32
App suite 190/190, build green (production index.html verified strict).
- formatUsd applies the payload currency {code,symbol,rate} once at
display; formatConverted (symbol only) for CLI-preconverted plan
values so nothing converts twice
- provider picker built from providerDetails: label shown, internal id
sent as --provider (fixes filters for providers whose display name
differs, e.g. Grok Build); falls back to map keys on older CLIs
- getYield threads the active provider through preload/main/sections
App suite 170/170, root 1615/1615.
- Provider filter: Models-this-period sources current.topModels (history
days carry empty topModels per provider); StackedBars falls back to a
cost-proportional single segment like the Swift menubar
- Chart windows align to the CLI (week -7, 30days -30, all = 6 months)
and zero-fill a contiguous calendar window; history.daily is sparse and
both sides key local YYYY-MM-DD, so lookups are safe (verified on real
CLI output)
- Custom range threads into Overview panels (chart, models table) and
suppresses MTD/projected and vs-last-week comparisons; Compare states
that custom dates fall back to the period
- usePolled clears errors per attempt and sections show a StaleBanner
instead of silently rendering last-good data after a failed refresh
- Cache-hit denominator matches the CLI; hero savings relabeled 'Saved by
applied fixes' + new 'Saved via local models' line; formatCompact
everywhere; Optimize 'Fixes' count matches the rendered list
App suite 163/163 (was 147), root 1613/1613.
contiguousDailyWindow rebuilt a calendar window from the client clock and looked
up days by date key; on real CLI data every lookup missed and zero-filled, so the
Spend chart went empty and the Overview chart went flat. Use the real last-N
backfilled entries of history.daily directly (Spend last-15, Overview
last-max(30, periodDaily)) and remove the dead helper.
typecheck clean; 147/147 tests pass.
