How Claude Code Achieves a 92% Prompt Caching Hit Rate with Three Unbreakable Engineering Rules
Claude Code’s prompt‑caching delivers a 92% hit rate, slashing a 50‑round agent session cost from $6 to $1.15 by separating stable prefixes from dynamic tails, using a three‑layer cache architecture, exact token‑sequence matching, and three strict engineering rules that keep the cache hot and reliable.
