check-cache-bugs

check-cache-bugs is a skill for Claude Code from FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-plugins. It costs 38 tokens per session (3,861 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A diagnostic checklist for cache and context bugs in Claude Code, including issues connected to resuming sessions, attribution headers, and silent context removal. The excerpt documents affected versions and some fixes or workarounds.

In plain words
What is it for?
Auditing Claude Code versions, configuration files, instructions, hooks, shell profiles, and installed Claude binaries for the listed cache-related issues.
Why use it?
It helps identify whether Claude Code setup problems are caused by known version, configuration, or session-handling bugs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Part of the code-quality plugin — 7 skills, 8 commands, 6 agents shipped together

Good fit Auditing Claude Code versions, configuration files, instructions, hooks, shell profiles, and installed Claude binaries for the listed cache-related issues.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/florianbruniaux/claude-code-plugins/check-cache-bugs
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 FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-plugins --skill check-cache-bugs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install code-quality, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 8 commands, 6 agents.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,861 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 14 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Agent Snooping · line 14
    Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
  • high Agent Snooping · line 113
    Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
  • high Agent Snooping · line 114
    Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
  • high Agent Snooping · line 115
    Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
  • high Agent Snooping · line 116
    Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
  • high Agent Snooping · line 119
    Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
  • high Agent Snooping · line 120
    Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
  • high Agent Snooping · line 121
    Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
  • high Agent Snooping · line 122
    Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
  • high Agent Snooping · line 123
    Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
  • high Agent Snooping · line 141
    Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
  • high Agent Snooping · line 173
    Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
  • high Agent Snooping · line 262
    Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 230
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00038 $0.03861
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.01544
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00772
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00386

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ea9991d9ab78, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

check-cache-bugs scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 1mo 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.

Reads agent configuration directorieslowAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

grep -rl "cch=" ~/.claude/hooks/ 2>/dev/null

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

plugins/code-quality/skills/check-cache-bugs/SKILL.md · 314 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 314 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Check Cache Bugs (CC#40524)

Audit your Claude Code setup for cache and cost bugs discovered in March-April 2026.

Time: ~30 seconds | Scope: version, config files, CLAUDE.md, skills, hooks, shell profiles, all claude binaries

Note on cache contamination: This skill loads content containing cch= strings into the current session's message array. For cleanest results, run this command at the very start of a fresh session, or via claude -p "$(cat .claude/commands/check-cache-bugs.md)" as a one-shot print-mode invocation.

Reference: anthropics/claude-code#40524 | Discovered by: @jmarianski + @whiletrue0x | Extended by: @ArkNill (ArkNill/claude-code-cache-analysis, April 2026)


Background

Fix Status (current as of v2.1.92)

Bug Versions affected Status
Bug 1: cch sentinel (standalone binary) v2.1.36-v2.1.90 FIXED in v2.1.91
Bug 2: deferred_tools_delta on --resume v2.1.69-v2.1.89 FIXED in v2.1.90
Bug 3: attribution header per-session hash v2.1.69+ Active (env var workaround)
B4: Microcompact / silent context stripping all versions through v2.1.92 Active (GrowthBook controlled)
B5: Tool result budget cap 200K all versions through v2.1.92 Active (MCP tools exempted)

Original three bugs (CC#40524)

  • Bug 1 (FIXED v2.1.91): Bun's native HTTP layer did a same-length byte replacement of the cch=00000 attestation placeholder after JSON.stringify but before TLS. Triggered only if cch=00000 appeared literally in messages[] content. Confirmed closed; npm and standalone binary are now equivalent on v2.1.91+.

  • Bug 2 (FIXED v2.1.90): The session JSONL writer stripped deferred_tools_delta attachment records before writing to disk. On --resume, those records were absent; the deferred tools layer had no prior history and re-announced all tools from scratch, shifting every message position and breaking the messages-level cache prefix entirely. Each resume rebuilt 87-118K tokens as cache_creation. Anthropic tracked internally as inc-4747.

Read the full file on GitHub · 314 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. 1mo ago First seen · 314 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A ea9991d9ab78

Subscribe to this mod's changes

check-cache-bugs is a skill published in the GitHub repository FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-plugins (42 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 3,861 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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