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Pythonlangsmithprompt_cacheAsyncPromptCachestart
Method●Since v0.7

start

Start async background refresh loop.

Must be called from an async context. Creates an asyncio task that periodically checks for stale entries and refreshes them. Does nothing if ttl_seconds is None (infinite TTL mode).

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    self,
) -> None
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