{ "title": "The coffee-break tax: what your next Claude Code message costs after a 0 to 65 minute pause", "url": "https://tokensave.app/data/ai-coffee-break-cache-cost", "license": "CC BY 4.0", "measured": "2026-10-20", "citation": "TokenSave (2026). The coffee-break tax: what your next Claude Code message costs after a 0 to 65 minute pause [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23489501", "tool": "Claude Code 2.1.295 (Opus 5.5), claude -p --effort medium --permission-mode acceptEdits, turn 2 with --resume; no MCP servers", "turn1_prompt": "Make a brick-breaker game that runs in the browser as a single file named index.html in the current folder. It needs 2 levels, a score display and 3 lives, and it must be playable with the keyboard and the mouse. Write the file and finish.", "turn2_prompt": "Make the ball red and slightly faster. 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