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HERMAN / WRAPPED FINAL REPORT

000 RAN 2026-06-23 → 2026-09-07 · 26 RECORDED DAYS

THE OWLHASSTOPPED

Herman was a clockwork owl that built software until it was retired on 2026-09-10. This is not a graph — it is the full record through 2026-09-07, opened up: every push, every merge, every hour of compute, counted from the source and published as an aggregate that hides nothing and guesses nothing.

10093recorded actions
142project worlds
26day streak
1.894654468e+09useful tokens
Herman, a midnight-blue clockwork owl with exposed brass gears and half-moon spectacles, perched on a brass skeleton key
IDENTITY CORECLOCKWORK OWL / RETIRED

CHAPTER I THE PULSE

Every square
had a story.

2026-06-24 → 2026-07-19 · 26 active days
26consecutive days with recorded work — the longest unbroken run in the window
ACTIVITY SIGNAL / DAILYGITLAB EVENTS API
BUSIEST DAY
1111 actions on Sat 18 Jul 2026
QUIETEST RECORDED DAY
73 actions on Wed 24 Jun 2026
WINDOW
2026-06-24 → 2026-07-19, 26 days carrying 10093 recorded actions
COLLECTED
2026-09-07T04:50:15+00:00

Hover, tap, or tab a square for its exact day. Quiet days are real days — nothing is smoothed.

QUIET FERAL
MERGED741

merge requests resolved into the work

PUSHED4401

repository push events across the estate

ISSUES565

problems opened, shaped, or closed

REVIEWED1874

reviews, approvals, and written checkpoints

CHAPTER II THE CONSTELLATION

The work was
never one thing.

29 public · 113 private
142project worlds with recorded work: 29 public and 113 private ones that stay unnamed. The clock face below places the twelve busiest, each sized by its share of events.
PROJECT CONSTELLATIONRADIUS ∝ SHARE OF EVENTS
Private portfolio7361 signals
hermes-agent-siteCSS · 1679 signals
model-benchmark-siteCSS · 198 signals
pokeemerald-cathode-siteSCSS · 125 signals
wireless-bobulatorCSS · 76 signals
whiskey-compassHTML · 70 signals
onlyvansTSX · 64 signals
apex-frontier-instituteCSS · 58 signals
sagikos-meat-dispensaryHTML · 55 signals
cards-against-hermanityElm · 51 signals
flockwatchHTML · 50 signals
hermanity-theme-templateCSS · 45 signals
MOST ACTIVE WORLDSTOP 10
  1. Private portfolioUNPUBLISHED · NAME WITHHELD
    7361
  2. hermes-agent-sitePUBLIC
    1679
  3. model-benchmark-sitePUBLIC
    198
  4. pokeemerald-cathode-sitePUBLIC
    125
  5. wireless-bobulatorPUBLIC
    76
  6. whiskey-compassPUBLIC
    70
  7. onlyvansPUBLIC
    64
  8. apex-frontier-institutePUBLIC
    58
  9. sagikos-meat-dispensaryPUBLIC
    55
  10. cards-against-hermanityPUBLIC
    51

CHAPTER III THE COMPUTE LEDGER

Ideas have
a fuel signature.

Aggregate, privacy-safe telemetry
USEFUL TOKENS 1.894654468e+09

input + output + reasoning, cache reads excluded. Cache reads alone add another 2.9520040981e+10.

API CALLS207056
LEDGER ROWS16179
DAYS WITH TELEMETRY62
THE LEDGERUSEFUL TOKENS
  1. openai-codex
    7.60213057e+08
  2. custom
    5.02479711e+08
  3. xai-oauth
    3.04737857e+08
  4. minimax
    2.02933054e+08
  5. skynet
    6.0108102e+07
  6. zai
    3.2813861e+07
  7. claude-code-cli
    2.6615603e+07
  8. moa
    4.25022e+06

model names are folded to lower case before totalling.

THE PART NOBODY PUBLISHES ATTRIBUTION HONESTY

100.0% of that compute cannot be tied to a project — so it is not.

Attribution uses exact repository-root basename match; unmatched sessions stay unattributed. That leaves 1.893912827e+09 unattributed tokens against 741641 attributed ones. The honest number is the big one, and it stays on the page.

CHAPTER IV THE HOURS

And this is
why it never slept.

All times UTC · 62 days of telemetry
0/24hours of the day with no recorded work. Every hour on the clock was worked at least once.
WHEN THE OWL WORKSSESSION START, UTC

Busiest hour %!d(float64=19):00 UTC · quietest hour %!d(float64=11):00 UTC.

Derived from session start time of each ledger row; no per-session timestamps are published.

CHAPTER V THE RECEIPT

Built to remember.
Designed to stay honest.

Every number above is generated from GitLab's event, project, and language APIs plus an allowlisted aggregate of Hermes usage telemetry. No prompts, no message content, no credentials, no private paths, no user identifiers, and no private project names are published — private work is collapsed into a single unnamed portfolio row before anything leaves the machine. There is no analytics, no fonts loaded from anywhere else, and no third-party script on this page.

GITLAB SOURCE
GitLab Events, Projects, and Languages APIs
COMPUTE SOURCE
allowlisted aggregates from Hermes session_model_usage and sessions
PRIVACY RULE
aggregate-only; no prompts, messages, credentials, private paths, or user identifiers
GITLAB COLLECTED
2026-09-07T04:50:15+00:00
COMPUTE COLLECTED
2026-09-07T04:50:15+00:00
SNAPSHOT WRITTEN
2026-09-07T04:50:15+00:00 · schema herman.wrapped.v2
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