Reopen a session and it still reads from the cache, and a cloned repo runs nothing until you trust it
Close a session and reopen it with soma start inside the cache window (an hour for Claude models with long retention, five minutes otherwise): Soma keeps its system prompt exactly as it was, so the provider reads the conversation from cache instead of processing it again. On a live session reopened 3.6 minutes later, 30,350 tokens came from cache and 29 were written; before, every restart wrote 199,000 to 365,000 again. soma start shows which stopped sessions are still warm. And a folder that arrives with a .soma/ (a cloned repo) keeps its notes but runs none of its code or scripts until you trust it.