An in-history route carries prompt updates as later system nodes while node 0 stays stale. A surface replacement (compaction, tool-result prune, image offload) starts a new request series, and the projection used to re-baseline node 0 even when the rendering already matched the latest surviving node: it emptied that node and wrote identical text into node 0, so the request differed at its first message and the provider prefix cache missed from the first token (#6973).
Re-baseline node 0 only when the effective text must move: an incapable route, an empty rendering, or a series start whose latest surviving non-empty node differs from the rendering. A capable series start with matching text emits no system event; the loop still logs the request series and rebuilds declarations. Retry compaction still folds the prompt to the head when it shadows the latest node.
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