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All time, since Sep 20, including 1 thumbs-up on GitHub.

Prompt cache keepalive when idle

“If a single background agent runs longer than an hour and nothing else finishes, the next wake-up rewrites the whole main context.”

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Keep prompt cache warm while waiting on background work. When the main thread sits idle past the cache TTL, "the next wake-up rewrites the whole main context" at write price.

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Where
Prompt cache
Versions
2.1.278 to 2.1.283
Platforms
macOS

Original reports2, newest first

  1. Keep the main thread's prompt cache warm while it waits for background agents#97758
  2. Feature request: prompt-cache keepalive while background tasks or permission prompts are pending#95728

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