cache

A command for inspecting, filling, or deleting package and build caches on a leased development machine. Caches are saved temporary files that make repeated installs and builds faster.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to view cache statistics and configured volumes, warm caches with commands such as package installation, or purge selected cache types from a leased box.
Why use it?
It lets you see what cache space is used, refresh caches when needed, or clear them safely without deleting the synced project files.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/openclaw/crabbox/cache
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openclaw/crabbox
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,610 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.01610
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00805
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00322
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00161

Measured yesterday against content hash 072bb125362b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cache scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

docs/commands/cache.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

cache

crabbox cache inspects, purges, or warms package and build caches on a leased box. Caches are a speed optimization layered on top of the synced worktree; the worktree stays authoritative, so cache state is always safe to clear.

crabbox cache stats --id swift-crab
crabbox cache stats --id swift-crab --json
crabbox cache volumes
crabbox cache warm  --id swift-crab -- pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
crabbox cache purge --id swift-crab --kind pnpm --force

Subcommands

cache stats   show usage for each enabled cache kind on the lease
cache list    alias for cache stats
cache volumes list configured provider-backed cache volumes
cache warm    run a command in the synced workdir to populate caches
cache purge   delete one or all cache kinds (requires --force)

stats, list, warm, and purge resolve --id to a box and connect over SSH. --id accepts the canonical cbx_... lease ID or an active friendly slug (for example swift-crab). If you omit the flag, stats and purge fall back to the first positional argument.

Resolving a lease also touches it (resetting the idle timer) and binds the lease to the current repo via a local claim. If the lease is already claimed by a different repo checkout, add --reclaim to move the claim.

These commands operate over SSH, so they apply to SSH-lease providers. On Windows leases running in windows.mode=normal, remote cache stats report as unsupported and cache purge exits with an error.

Cache kinds

pnpm     /var/cache/crabbox/pnpm
npm      /var/cache/crabbox/npm
git      /var/cache/crabbox/git   (shared origin objects)
docker   Docker layer/image cache (reported via docker system df)

Repo config toggles cache.pnpm, cache.npm, cache.docker, and cache.git control which kinds are enabled. Disabled kinds are omitted from stats, are not removed by purge --kind all, and purging a disabled specific kind fails early with cache kind "<kind>" is disabled by config.

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 169 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 072bb125362b

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cache is a command published in the GitHub repository openclaw/crabbox (1,343 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,610 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.