Forked Agent Cache-Sharing Economics
- Entity ID:
ent-20260419-20f4b8edf54c - Type:
concept - Scope:
shared - Status:
active - Aliases: cache-shared fork economics, 4x parallel-fork cost reduction
Description
Because sub-agents forked from a parent inherit byte-identical context, the first fork pays the full context cache-write cost and all subsequent forks pay only incremental cost for their individual continuations. At 5+ agents this yields ~4x cost reduction versus naive parallel calls and is the economic engine that makes /batch multi-agent orchestration viable at consumer tier pricing.
Key claims
- Fork economics make 5-agent parallel barely more expensive than 1-agent
Relations
- Forked Agent Cache-Sharing Economics --[depends_on]--> Cache Economics
- /batch Command Worktree Orchestration --[depends_on]--> Forked Agent Cache-Sharing Economics
- Forked Agent Cache-Sharing Economics --[derived_from]--> Forked Agent Pattern