Time trackers were built for one human at one keyboard — you run three agents. Clockify, Toggl and the timer-plus-JIRA-worklog routine all measure the same thing: a person, manually, after the fact. None of them can see the AI coding agents doing the work — or prove a single minute of it.
A timer you forget to start, and a JIRA worklog you fill from memory at 6pm. Two reconstructions of a day that three agents actually built.
| CAPABILITY | Manual + JIRA timer + worklog | Clockify / Toggl dedicated timers | dira agent-native |
|---|---|---|---|
| How a minute is recordedcapture mechanism | twice — timer + worklog | start / stop a timer | agent hooks, no input |
| Running several agents at onceparallel supervision | agents are invisible | one timer, one stream | ✓ |
| AI tokens & compute costthe new cost center | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Proof behind the numberverifiability | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Where you do itcontext switching | browser + ticket | separate window | where you already are |
| End-of-day reconstructionmemory tax | rebuilt from memory | fix forgotten timers | captured as it happens |
| What you bill onbilling base | one undifferentiated number | one undifferentiated number | engaged · agent · compute |
| Rate change re-prices old invoiceseffective dating | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
A stopwatch records one stream. Supervise three agents and a manual timer either triple-counts or sees nothing. dira counts one human-minute per minute and splits it across the repos that earned it.
Toggl has no concept of a token. dira reconciles real usage from each harness's session files into an estimated cost — an optional invoice line, so you bill or absorb the AI surplus per client.
A manual entry is a claim a client takes on faith. dira anchors each interval to commit SHAs that exist in the remote, authored by you — a verifiable line, not a self-reported one.
dira isn't another tab to remember — it lives in the terminal you're already in. One command per harness sets up its hooks and you never start a timer again.