[maven29]

I'm sure you're aware but it's worth pointing out that you will lose all your cache hit discounts with some providers. The next turn will incur the cost of the whole trajectory billed at fresh input token rates.

As an aside, 95 pages into the system card for Claude Opus 4.6, Anthropic acknowledges that they have disabled prompt prefill.

[planckscnst]

Yes, I have already made deliberate cache decisions and plan to do more once it's working the way I imagine. I think the trimmed down context will have way bigger effect than the cache stuff, though.

As far as I understand, it's caches are not a "next-turn" thing, but a ttl thing.

I made the "retrieve" tool, which is what pulls back previously removed content, append to the conversation rather than putting it back where it previously was. But it's a but premature to really know if that's a real optimization.