Show HN: Claude-thermos – keeps your Claude session warm for you

I've directly inspected calls for pro/Max plans and as of today they have 1hr cache expiries. This has definitely degraded to 5 min in the past but that's the behavior today.

If you're paying API rates, you can choose 5m or 1hr yourself (and pay different rates).

Keeping a 1hr cache warm could still be useful, sure, but outside that, I don't see much use of this today.

Feels like will be shut down real quick

Is the 5-minute expiration correct? I thought it was more like ~1 hour.

How will this not lead to tragedy of the commons?

Glad this exists. It will force anthropic to fix their flawed cache mechanism.

Don't we pay for cache input though?

This is a good idea if it could manage it in an acceptable way.

For example, there might be something I intended to complete in one sitting, but took two sittings in the same day unexpectedly. Maybe it could just be a few cache delays per day or something, tagged in advance somehow.

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