keep-warm
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Refresh the prompt cache for this session with one minimal turn, and report when it expires next. Use when asked for "/keep-warm", "keep the cache warm", or just before stepping away from a long session.
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The file
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2 rules. About 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 16
Read the cache clock:
- Distinctive: line 24
Stop. Do not summarize the session, read files, or call other tools.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
/keep-warm
When to use
Run this when the user is about to pause a long session and wants the next turn to read the conversation from the prompt cache instead of paying to write it again. Sending this command is itself the refresh: any turn in the session resets the cache clock, so the reply should be as small as possible.
Procedure
- Read the cache clock:
M="$HOME/.claude/hooks/tq-forge/mods.py"; [ -f "$M" ] || M=".claude/hooks/tq-forge/mods.py"
python3 "$M" keep-warm- Reply in one line with what it printed: how long the cache stays warm from now.
- Stop. Do not summarize the session, read files, or call other tools; every extra token here is cost with no benefit.
Pitfalls
- A refresh is not free. It reads the whole conversation from the cache once, so it pays off only if the user comes back before the next expiry.
- The cache lasts about an hour on a Claude subscription and about five minutes with an API key. On the five-minute clock, keeping a session warm through a long break costs more than letting it go cold.
tq-forge keep-warm --waitin another terminal rings the bell when a refresh is due. It cannot send the turn for you; only a message in this session refreshes this session's cache.
Verification
- The command prints the minutes left, and the status line (if it shows the cache clock) resets after this turn.
Tags
cache, keep-warm, cost, mods
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