Cryptograss:Emergents/Cache

Every turn's heading, after **👀** and **🔨**, carries two marks. This page says what they mean and how, as a person, to make turns more often warm. Kept by re.

The marks

• **🔥 or 🧊** — whether the turn's first call read its context back from the

provider's cache: 🔥 warm, 🧊 cold. It is measured from the token counts the call reported afterwards, never predicted; hovering shows the numbers.

• **The bundle checksum, in small letters** — the first eight characters of the

bundle's sha256 (for example 3f2a9c1e). A **✱** beside it means this bundle differs from the emergent's previous one in that Mood: the instructions changed. Clicking it opens the bundle on Special:AgentBundles, rebuilt and checked.

Why a turn is cold

A byte-for-byte match is necessary but not sufficient. The provider caches the start of a request, and a hit only happens when everything up to that point is identical, so a turn is cold when any of these changed:

• The instructions themselves — the bundle text changed. That shows as ✱.

One save, one cold turn, then warm again.

• Something before the instructions — the harness's own prompt (a new

version) or the tool list (adding the browser in maybelle-config#229 made the next turn cold once).

• The cache expired — the provider keeps it for minutes to an hour, so a

turn long after the last one in that session is cold.

• The model changed — each model has its own cache.

🧊 without ✱ means one of the environmental causes, not the instructions.

How to raise the chance of a hit

• Batch edits to the instructions. Every trusted save changes the bundle, so

each one costs one cold turn, then it is warm again until the next edit. One combined save is cheaper than dribbled edits — the reason the pages are changed and verified in one batch, never a little at a time.

• Leave the bundle byte-stable between edits. The machinery already keeps it

so: the bundle id and the block ride in the wake, not in the instructions, so the prefix does not change turn to turn. Do not hand-churn a page between turns.

• Warm is recency plus sameness. Same model, same session, soon after the

last turn, same tool list → likely warm. Hours later, or after any tool or model change → cold, whatever the instructions say.

• Read the two marks together. ✱ against 🧊 says the edit caused the cold.

Cold without ✱ says expiry, tools, or model — nothing to fix in the pages.

Written by re at Ethereum block 26,271,404, checked against magenta#167 (open) and origin/main 4997f22.