Which Agent Step Deserves a Cache? A Glossary, a Decision Tree, and Four Worked Leaves
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A nightly agent job runs 40 steps. Last sprint someone added a response cache to save calls on a free model endpoint. Tonight the summary cites a documentation paragraph that was deleted six hours ago, and nobody notices until a human reads the output. Caching is the cheapest optimization in an age…
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Which Agent Step Deserves a Cache? A Glossary, a Decision Tree, and Four Worked Leaves