The encoder is the most expensive thing Studio touches — on H3 it is
Qwen3-VL-32B — and most calls to it are bookkeeping rather than the prompt:
embedding eight category descriptions to classify a phrase by cosine
similarity, embedding a memory to ask whether it is about this scene.
Every call now records its purpose, its cost, and whether the per-run cache
served it. One line per run says where the time went and what share of Studio
it was, so "26 seconds before generation starts" becomes a list of candidates
rather than a guess. The tally is per run and never persisted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
