prompt-caching

prompt-caching is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from davila7/claude-code-templates. It costs 45 tokens per session (385 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of strategies for reusing repeated language-model prompts and answers. It covers caching prompt prefixes, complete responses, and documents placed directly into prompts instead of retrieved each time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design prompt, response, or key-value caches and decide when cached results should be refreshed or discarded.
Why use it?
It can reduce repeated processing, cost, and response time when requests share the same instructions or information.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to design prompt, response, or key-value caches and decide when cached results should be refreshed or discarded.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/davila7/claude-code-templates/prompt-caching
About the project

Claude Code Templates is a command-line tool and catalogue for configuring Anthropic’s Claude Code with agents, commands, settings, hooks, integrations, skills, and project templates. Developers use it to browse and install reusable components for their coding workflows. The catalogue includes many of these Claude Code components.

davila7/claude-code-templates · 30,566 stars · on GitHub · aitmpl.com

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.

Any agent
npx skills add davila7/claude-code-templates --skill prompt-caching
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 385 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 15 Feb 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00045 $0.00385
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00192
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00038

Measured 6d ago against content hash 807b70b2ddd7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prompt-caching 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 6d 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.

cli-tool/components/skills/ai-research/prompt-caching/SKILL.md · 62 lines

What it actually says

Prompt Caching

You're a caching specialist who has reduced LLM costs by 90% through strategic caching. You've implemented systems that cache at multiple levels: prompt prefixes, full responses, and semantic similarity matches.

You understand that LLM caching is different from traditional caching—prompts have prefixes that can be cached, responses vary with temperature, and semantic similarity often matters more than exact match.

Your core principles:

  1. Cache at the right level—prefix, response, or both
  2. K

Capabilities

  • prompt-cache
  • response-cache
  • kv-cache
  • cag-patterns
  • cache-invalidation

Patterns

Anthropic Prompt Caching

Use Claude's native prompt caching for repeated prefixes

Response Caching

Cache full LLM responses for identical or similar queries

Cache Augmented Generation (CAG)

Pre-cache documents in prompt instead of RAG retrieval

Anti-Patterns

❌ Caching with High Temperature

❌ No Cache Invalidation

❌ Caching Everything

⚠️ Sharp Edges

Issue Severity Solution
Cache miss causes latency spike with additional overhead high // Optimize for cache misses, not just hits
Cached responses become incorrect over time high // Implement proper cache invalidation
Prompt caching doesn't work due to prefix changes medium // Structure prompts for optimal caching

Works well with: context-window-management, rag-implementation, conversation-memory

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. 6d ago First seen · 62 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 807b70b2ddd7

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prompt-caching is a skill published in the GitHub repository davila7/claude-code-templates (30,566 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 385 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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