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My change cuts across multiple systems with many tests/static analysis/AI code reviews happening in CI. The agent keeps pushing new versions and waits for results until all of them come up clean, taking several iterations.
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I mean if you don't have your company paying for it I wouldn't bother... We are talking sessions of 500-1000 dollars in cost.
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Right. At Opus 4.6 rates, once you're at 700k context, each tool call costs ~$1 just for cache reads alone. 100 tool calls = $100+ before you even count outputs. 'Standard pricing' is doing a lot of work here lol
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Cache reads don’t count as input tokens you pay for lol.

https://www.claudecodecamp.com/p/how-prompt-caching-actually...

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