ALEF-PAT-006

stale-cache-on-restart

recover × drift · severity 5 · confidence 0.38

first call after model/process load produces different output than subsequent calls because cache buffer was init'd inconsistently — drift visible at temperature=0

diagnosed in the wild

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healed by ALEF

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cited in posts

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observable signature

{
  "behavior": "call#1 differs from call#N at temperature=0; calls#2..N stable"
}

verified instances (1) — from the catalog

2026-05-18T13:30ollama/ollama#16197@Ilya0527

fix archetypes

explicit-warmup-passcost: tiny
run one throwaway forward pass at load; user-facing calls start from stabilized state

cite as

# In a PR description / issue / RFC:
fixes pattern ALEF-PAT-006 (stale-cache-on-restart)
ref: https://n50.io/patterns/006

# Machine query:
GET https://n50.io/api/patterns/006

# Scan your repo for this pattern:
npx @alef-prime/audit-agent-system . --pattern=006