agent-brain-cache

A command for viewing or clearing the embedding cache used by Agent Brain. Embeddings are numerical representations that help a system compare the meaning of text.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect cache metrics in human-readable or JSON form, or clear the cache before a fresh indexing run.
Why use it?
It shows cache usage and can remove stored results when changing the search provider or model, so future indexing computes them again.

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/spillwavesolutions/agent-brain/agent-brain-cache
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SpillwaveSolutions/agent-brain
Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,576 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 $0.00013 $0.01576
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00788
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00315
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00158

Measured 2d ago against content hash 412753887eae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-brain-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 2d ago.

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.

agent-brain-plugin/commands/agent-brain-cache.md · 221 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 221 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Brain Cache Management

Purpose

Manage the embedding cache used by Agent Brain to avoid redundant OpenAI API calls:

  • status — View hit rate, entry counts, and cache size to understand cache health.
  • clear — Flush all cached embeddings to force fresh computation on the next reindex.

The embedding cache is automatic — it requires no setup. Use this command to monitor it and clear it when changing embedding providers or models.

Usage

/agent-brain:agent-brain-cache status [--json] [--url <url>]
/agent-brain:agent-brain-cache clear [--yes] [--url <url>]

Parameters

Parameter Required Default Description
subcommand Yes - Operation: status or clear
--yes No false Skip confirmation prompt (clear only)
--json No false Output in JSON format (status only)
--url No AGENT_BRAIN_URL or http://127.0.0.1:8000 Server URL override

Examples

/agent-brain:agent-brain-cache status                # Show cache metrics (human-readable)
/agent-brain:agent-brain-cache status --json         # Show metrics as JSON
/agent-brain:agent-brain-cache clear                 # Clear cache (prompts for confirmation)
/agent-brain:agent-brain-cache clear --yes           # Clear cache (skips confirmation)

Execution: Status Path

Step 1: Run Cache Status

agent-brain cache status

For JSON output (useful for scripting):

agent-brain cache status --json

Expected Output

Metric            Value
──────────────── ──────
Entries (disk)    1,234
Entries (memory)    500
Hit Rate          87.3%
Hits            5,432
Misses              800
Size             14.81 MB

Interpreting Metrics

Metric Description
Entries (disk) Total embeddings persisted in the SQLite cache database
Entries (memory) Embeddings currently held in the in-memory LRU (fastest tier)
Hit Rate Percentage of embedding lookups served from cache (higher is better)
Hits Total successful cache lookups this session
Misses Total cache misses (embedding had to be computed via API)
Size Total disk space used by the cache database

Read the full file on GitHub · 221 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. 2d ago First seen · 221 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 412753887eae

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-brain-cache is a command published in the GitHub repository SpillwaveSolutions/agent-brain (117 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 1,576 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. 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.