Caching and freshness

What can be reused

Cacheable research results can be reused across eligible requests. Each workspace still has its own purchase/accounting record. A cache hit can reduce the product-credit cost; inspect the response rather than assuming every call is free.

Tool inputs and the service’s cache rules determine whether a result can be reused. Private account data and credentials are not public research cache entries.

When freshness matters

Social discussions, prices and search results can change. Record the query, market, date and any supplied cache timestamps alongside the findings. A reused result is evidence from its fetch time, not a promise about the current state of a platform.

Some operations deliberately bypass cache: bounded Reddit newest-feed monitoring is one example. Caching and provider availability differ by tool; the reference and response metadata are the source of truth.

No data is a result to explain

A missing transcript, private resource or unavailable provider result must not be rewritten as a successful measurement. Use the returned error/no-data information to choose another public input or stop.