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308308Agents in the same run can read each other's [prompt cache](/docs/en/prompt-caching#subagents-and-the-cache). Two agents that run with the same model, effort level, agent type, tools, output schema, and working directory build the same tools-and-system-prompt prefix, so an agent that starts after a matching sibling's response has begun reads that sibling's cache on its first request.
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310A workflow agent's requests fall outside the main conversation's [cache TTL bucket](/docs/en/prompt-caching#which-ttl-each-request-gets), so its cache holds for five minutes by default, including on a Claude subscription. To keep it for an hour, set [`subagentPromptCacheTtl`](/docs/en/settings-reference#subagentpromptcachettl) to `1h`. The API bills 1-hour cache writes at a higher rate.
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310312When a fan-out starts several matching agents at once, Claude Code holds all but the first until the first agent's response begins, then releases the held agents together so their first requests read the shared prefix instead of each processing it uncached. Claude Code caps the hold at [`CLAUDE_CODE_WORKFLOW_PREFIX_STAGGER_MS`](/docs/en/env-vars) milliseconds, `5000` by default. Set it to `0` to disable the hold.
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312314### Behavior and limits
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