OpenAI adds 12-hour prompt caching; an agent opens an integration PR within minutes

heyneighbor · x · 2026-10-21

OpenAI Developers announced 12-hour prompt caching in the API: persistent agents can reuse context all day, keeping shared instructions, tools, and context cached longer while paying the lower cached-input rate. Developer Peter Steinberger immediately told his RoboClaw agent to research the feature, add a config option, and open a PR — which it did on the spot, demoing an extreme build-in-public workflow of agent-driven integration.

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