prompt-caching

prompt-caching is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from IgorWarzocha/howaboua-pi-stuff. It costs 22 tokens per session (1,560 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for designing and checking prompt caching in an agent system. Prompt caching reuses an unchanged beginning of a model request so later requests can avoid processing it again.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing, measuring, tracing, or debugging cache behavior across repeated model requests and session events.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish real provider cache hits from related mechanisms such as conversation continuation, connection prewarming, or cache predictions. It also helps define whether caching actually reduces cost or response time.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when designing, measuring, tracing, or debugging cache behavior across repeated model requests and session events.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/igorwarzocha/howaboua-pi-stuff/prompt-caching
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 IgorWarzocha/howaboua-pi-stuff --skill prompt-caching
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/IgorWarzocha/howaboua-pi-stuff

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,560 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
  • 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 $0.00022 $0.01560
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00780
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00312
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00156

Measured 10d ago against content hash d88fc770dfa9, 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 10d 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.

packages/pi-skill-harness-and-agent-engineering/skills/prompt-caching/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Define success

Successful prompt caching reuses naturally stable model context without compromising what the model should receive. Cold requests should occur at understandable lifecycle boundaries. Later requests should read the expected stable prefix, process the changed tail normally, and repay writes through real cost or latency savings.

Do not optimize for the highest read percentage. The useful boundary is the longest prefix that should honestly remain unchanged.

Keep these mechanisms separate:

  • provider prompt caching reuses model prefill for an exact rendered prefix
  • server continuation carries conversation state between requests
  • transport prewarm prepares an expected request or connection
  • cache prediction estimates reuse but does not inspect provider cache state

A key, stable source object, fast response, prediction, or successful continuation does not prove a provider hit. Use provider-reported reads and writes as final evidence.

Trace lifecycle and every model call

Cache correctness has two axes: payload identity and snapshot authority. Discover the harness's actual event order, including session start or resume, repeated turn preparation, provider calls, tool continuations, retries, lane changes, navigation, and compaction where present.

  1. Map every route that can invoke the model. Ordinary input, extension commands, model-visible messages, synthetic user messages, queued follow-ups, steering, retries, and continuations may run different hooks. Do not infer hook coverage from message role or visibility.
  2. Separate adding context from starting work. If work requires fresh prompt or tool state, use a route that performs authoritative preparation.
  3. Treat an idle check as an observation, not a reservation. Revalidate at invocation or use an atomic route when freshness depends on a new prepared run.
  4. Establish each request, continuation, replay, prewarm, or compaction snapshot's session and lane, capture event, completed hooks, represented provider request, consumer, and invalidators. The authoritative baseline is normally the latest completed final provider request in the current lane. Session-start state is not timeless.
  5. Guard asynchronous state so late work from an old lane cannot overwrite newer state.
  6. Record every provider call chronologically. An agent turn may contain several. Capture its trigger, lane, continuation state, uncached input, cache reads, cache writes, snapshot provenance, expected stable prefix, and first divergence.
  7. Explain the sequence before aggregating it. A series of misses followed by one large hit is broken until explained. Long-term ratios hide when, where, and for whom caching failed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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. 10d ago First seen · 97 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A d88fc770dfa9

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prompt-caching is a skill published in the GitHub repository IgorWarzocha/howaboua-pi-stuff (359 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 1,560 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.

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