dira vs. the stopwatch

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 agents doing the work — or prove a single minute of it.

THE FLOW YOU KNOW

You already log time twice. Neither place is right.

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.

A normal Tuesday, today
09:12Start a timer in Toggl. Forget which task.
09:40Kick off two Claude Code sessions + a Codex run.
11:05Timer still running through lunch. Was that billable?
14:20Switch repos. Forget to switch the timer.
18:00Reconstruct it all into JIRA worklogs from memory.
✕ double entry✕ guessed from memory✕ agents invisible
→
The same Tuesday, with dira
09:12You just start working. Nothing to press.
09:40Three agent sessions captured automatically, per repo.
11:05Lunch idles out after 5 min — not counted.
14:20Repo change detected — time re-attributes itself.
18:00Go home. The invoice already has the commits behind it.
✓ zero entry✓ deduped & idle-trimmed✓ git-anchored
FEATURE BY FEATURE

Same job, different decade.

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
✕
✕
✓
Comparison reflects each tool's core, agent-relevant capabilities. Clockify and Toggl are excellent manual timers — they were simply built before agents wrote the code.
WHY A TIMER CAN'T DO THIS

Three things only an agent-native tracker knows.

Parallel agents, deduped

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.

Compute, as its own line

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.

✓
Proof, not a number you typed

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.

Keep JIRA for tickets. Let dira do the time.

dira isn't another tab to remember — it lives in the terminal you're already in. One command sets up your harness hooks and you never start a timer again.

$ dira init — detects Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode
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