The Change Nobody Announced On March 6, 2026, Anthropic silently changed the default prompt cache TTL from 1 hour to 5 minutes. There was no blog post. No changelog entry. No deprecation notice. If you built a caching strategy based on the original 1-hour window — and most people did, because that's what the docs showed — your cache hit rate has been cratering for weeks and you might not have no
Claude's Prompt Cache TTL Silently Dropped from 1 Hour to 5 Minutes (Here's What to Do)
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