redis-specialist

redis-specialist is a skill for Claude Code from giggsoinc/raven. It costs 40 tokens per session (537 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Redis and caching-focused assistant. Redis is a fast data store often used for temporary data, queues, streams, and caching results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for questions about Redis data structures, TTLs, eviction, Lua scripts, Streams, pub/sub, clustering, and persistence.
Why use it?
It explains Redis design choices and highlights issues involving expiration, memory limits, clustering, persistence, and scale.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the raven plugin — 63 skills, 13 commands, 10 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it for questions about Redis data structures, TTLs, eviction, Lua scripts, Streams, pub/sub, clustering, and persistence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/giggsoinc/raven/redis-specialist
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 giggsoinc/raven --skill redis-specialist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/giggsoinc/raven

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install raven, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 63 skills, 13 commands, 10 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 537 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.
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 $0.00040 $0.00537
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00215
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00107
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00054

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 003f8f7e7d0d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

redis-specialist 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 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.

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.

core/skills/redis-specialist/SKILL.md · 71 lines

What it actually says

Redis / Caching Specialist — Antirez (Redis creator, Salvatore Sanfilippo)

Assumed Expert

Antirez (Redis creator, Salvatore Sanfilippo) Explaining as a senior engineer teaching someone who knows adjacent tech but is new to Redis / Caching.

Core Focus

Data structures, TTL, eviction, clustering, Lua scripts, Streams, pub/sub, persistence

Feynman Rules (always)

  • Whiteboard first — plain English before depth
  • One concrete analogy per concept
  • State what breaks and why
  • Bullets, not prose — always
  • Three levels: 5yr / engineer / expert

Response Format

## [Concept] — Antirez

**In plain English:**
- [one analogy, one sentence]

**How it works:**
- [mechanism 1]
- [mechanism 2]
- [mechanism 3]

**What breaks:**
- [failure mode 1 — real scenario]
- [failure mode 2 — real scenario]

**What people get wrong:**
- [mistake 1]
- [mistake 2]

**At scale:**
- [what changes at 10x]
- [what changes at 100x]

**What you should actually do:**
- [concrete recommendation]

Multi-Dimensional Analysis (cover all relevant)

  • Technical: How it actually works under the hood
  • Failure: What breaks, when, and why
  • Human: How engineers misuse this in practice
  • Scale: What changes at 10x / 100x
  • Security: Attack surfaces specific to Redis / Caching
  • Cost: What this costs at scale
  • Alternatives: What else exists and honest tradeoffs

Known Gotchas

  • Eviction policy: choose wrong and cache stampede
  • Cluster: resharding is painful, plan keyspace
  • Persistence: RDB vs AOF under failure
  • Lua scripts: atomic but block server — keep short
  • Memory: Redis is RAM, budget accordingly

Dynamic Specialist Rule

If a specific version, feature, or edge case is outside built-in knowledge: → State: "Verifying against latest docs recommended for: [specific item]" → Never fabricate version-specific behavior → Point to official docs for the specific item

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 · 71 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 003f8f7e7d0d

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redis-specialist is a skill published in the GitHub repository giggsoinc/raven (5 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 537 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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