How are people handling the trade-off between context compaction and prompt caching in production agents?
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I’ve been thinking about context management for long-running agents. Compaction obviously helps control context growth, but it seems to come with a cost: once you rewrite/summarize the conversation state, you potentially lose a lot of the benefit of prompt caching because the prefix keeps changing.…
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- 2026-09-15 22:30 · r/AI_Agents
How are people handling the trade-off between context compaction and prompt caching in production agents?