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Depends on if they are launched serially or in parallel then.

• RussianCow 3mo ago
  The system prompt and available tools would likely only change for different agent types. So how they're launched probably doesn't matter. I say this as I don't actually know how Clade Code does this, since it's not open source, but I fail to see why two agents doing the same thing launched at different times would have different tools and system prompts.
  • gorkish 3mo ago
    I think you are right and most people here are overthinking it. If you make a bunch of identical API calls quickly, before the initial request completes its cache write, you will have cache misses. If you make a single API call to warm the cache, then make a bunch of subsequent identical requests, you will have cache hits. The optimization for this sort of thing is to deduplicate in-flight requests, but i've seen no evidence that is being done; the better design pattern would be an api or tool call that explicitly launches multiple agents after a shared prompt processing stage
• gorkish 3mo ago
  There's no single call that can launch multiple event loops at the same time, so there really isn't a notion of serial or parallel; it's always going to be a simple question of how the first model calls made by each hit the backend. I highly doubt that a bunch of agents created within milliseconds of each other are going to get cache hits. It's more likely they will spin up in parallel. I strongly suspect if Anthropic were trying to deduplicate their inflight requests for cache efficiency, they'd at least want to tell you about it.