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A warm-lit dashboard showing token usage breakdown with a large orange bar labeled 'System Prompt' dominating the chart

Operations·13 min read read

Your agent re-reads its own manual on every call

Datadog's 2026 State of AI Engineering report found that 69% of input tokens go to system prompts, yet only 28% of LLM calls use prompt caching. Here's how to diagnose the problem and fix it without rewriting your agent.

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Weekly. Patterns for shipping agents that work. MCP, scorecards, regression tests, prompts, model comparisons.

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