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Re:Claude Code burns ~15–20% of your tokens on a 3-word stat... by maxbond on Thursday October 29, 2026 @01:23AM (#50284864)
It's an hour. It'll tell you the expiry time on the status line now but that information is also available in /usage.
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Re:Claude Code burns ~15–20% of your tokens on a 3-word stat... by buzer on Thursday October 29, 2026 @01:27AM (#50284888)
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/46829

Looks like what I remembered was a bug.

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Re:Claude Code burns ~15–20% of your tokens on a 3-word stat... by simon83 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:29AM (#50286018)
Subagents have a default TTL of 5 minutes though, with an opt in to increase it to 1h, for a premium for writing to cache.
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