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Applied AI·Production patterns and cost

the identical request comes in again and you return the stored answer, with no chance of it being a subtly different answer.

Exact-match caching

Draft summary, pending review

A plain cache on the normalised request. Only hits on identical inputs, but with zero wrong-answer risk; ideal for deterministic sub-steps (temperature 0 extraction, classification) inside larger pipelines.

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