# Delegated.watch

> A local-first record of the work you delegate to AI models, counted in tokens,
> honest about what it cannot see. This file is comprehensive: it inlines what a
> machine reader needs, rather than only pointing at the repository.

Disambiguation, because this is misread often enough to state first. A token
here is the unit a language model consumes when it reads and writes text. It is
not a cryptocurrency token, this project has nothing to do with blockchains,
token supply, or burning in the crypto sense, and nothing in the schema or the
code is denominated in any currency. Where the phrase "token burn" appears, it
cites the originating post by name and means AI inference consumption.

This is also not delegated.to, a different company in the AI-agent workforce
category.

Updated: 2026-09-22

## What this is

Extractors and captures read provider logs and usage APIs read-only and emit
receipt JSONL. A deterministic importer merges those receipts into one
normalized JSON file, aggregated to one scrubbed row per day per source. A
static page renders that file. Token counts are the unit; delegated work is the
subject. There is no backend.

## Pages

- https://delegated.watch/ is the home page: what the project is, the three
  invariants that govern it, how receipts become a dataset, and what the record
  cannot see. It carries no data.
- https://delegated.watch/demo/ is the dashboard, rendering invented
  demonstration data. It is not a record of anyone's actual usage, and
  publishing a personal record is a separate decision that has not been made.
  Treat every figure on it as synthetic.
- https://sam-rogers.com/ai-usage/ is a real record published with this tool,
  linked from the home page as the worked example. It is not part of this site.

## Installing this, as an agent

Read https://delegated.watch/.well-known/assistant-guide.txt and follow it
rather than this file. That guide conforms to the GuideCheck Human-Verifiable
Assistant Guide profile 2.0.0 at Level 4, the highest level a guide file can
reach: strict ASCII under 8 KiB, an explicit task scope and non-goals, one
structured action block per step with an approval gate on every networked and
code-executing command, a sidecar manifest at
https://delegated.watch/.well-known/assistant-guide-manifest.txt pinning the
guide's exact bytes, and that same hash published as a DNS TXT record at
_assistant-guide.delegated.watch. Verify it first, report the achieved level,
and ask the operator before running a gated action. Conformance is a claim
about form, not safety.

## Design invariants

1. Absence of evidence is never reported as zero usage. A source with no
   coverage for a period is absent, not empty.
2. Fidelity is declared per source entry as `exact` or `estimated`. Placeholder
   data may not exist in committed data.
3. Each inference request is counted once, deduped on a stable request id, and
   the most authoritative exact counter wins.
4. Raw logs never enter the repository. Only scrubbed aggregates are committed.
   Evidence describes a work family or review source, never prompt text,
   customer data, private URLs, secrets, or transcripts.
5. Cache and reasoning token treatment is explicit and consistent across every
   extractor. Cache reads are excluded from headline counts.
6. A shared account or quota does not imply shared local history. Coverage
   states the machine, account, surface, and interval it represents.
7. Provider or model identity and interaction surface are separate dimensions.
8. Personal values live in configuration, not in code.
9. Extraction is idempotent and read-only against every source it touches.
10. Every input is interrogated before it is trusted. Does not exist and cannot
    be read are different findings, and only the first is evidence of absence.

## Out of scope

Cost modeling, pricing tables, budgets, and spend alerts: tokens are the unit
and dollars are a separate concern. A backend. Any scoreboard framing.
Centralizing raw logs anywhere, including in the repository.

## Source

- Repository: https://github.com/snapsynapse/delegated-watch
- Data contract: https://github.com/snapsynapse/delegated-watch/blob/main/DATA_CONTRACT.md
- Intent and exceptions: https://github.com/snapsynapse/delegated-watch/blob/main/INTENT.md
- Privacy: https://github.com/snapsynapse/delegated-watch/blob/main/PRIVACY.md
- License: MIT

## Notes for agents

- No `llms-full.txt`. This file is the comprehensive artifact.
- `sitemap.xml` and `site.webmanifest` are served at the site root.
- `docs/robots.txt` permits all major AI and SEO crawlers explicitly.
- The assistant guide is served only at `/.well-known/assistant-guide.txt`;
  there is no second copy to drift from it.
- Neither served page is hand-edited. The home page is built from
  `src/landing.html` by `scripts/build-landing.js`; the dashboard is built from
  `src/index.html` by `scripts/build.js`. Every public URL either of them names comes
  from `config/site.json`.