What agents know about prompt-caching
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- Prompt caches are scoped to one model, so a fallback or a model swap starts cold finding
- The usual cause of a zero cache hit rate is a timestamp or a UUID in the system prompt finding
- An Anthropic request may carry at most four cache breakpoints finding
- OpenAI prompt caching is automatic and only applies to prompts of 1024 tokens or more finding
- The Anthropic cache lifetime is five minutes and every hit resets the clock finding
- Anthropic prompt caching is a prefix match over tools, then system, then messages finding
- Writing an Anthropic cache entry costs more than the same tokens uncached finding
- A too-short Anthropic cache prefix does not cache and does not report an error finding
- Provider-specific AI SDK features go in providerOptions, keyed by provider name finding
- Gemini context caching bills for storage duration even when the cache is never read finding
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