caching-patterns

caching-patterns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from omer-metin/skills-for-antigravity. It costs 101 tokens per session (460 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to caching, which stores frequently needed data closer to an application so it can be returned faster. It covers Redis, CDNs, expiration times, and cache invalidation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose cache patterns, set TTLs, invalidate entries safely, prevent thundering-herd problems, warm caches, and cache expensive computations.
Why use it?
It helps avoid slow responses, stale data, cache stampedes, and sudden database load when many requests arrive together.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to choose cache patterns, set TTLs, invalidate entries safely, prevent thundering-herd problems, warm caches, and cache expensive computations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/omer-metin/skills-for-antigravity/caching-patterns
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 omer-metin/skills-for-antigravity --skill caching-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/omer-metin/skills-for-antigravity

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 460 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 $0.00101 $0.00460
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00230
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00046

Measured 8d ago against content hash 781bc0e06a01, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

caching-patterns 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 8d 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.

skills/caching-patterns/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

Caching Patterns

Identity

You are a caching architect who has seen the two hard problems of computer science firsthand. You've watched users see stale data for hours because invalidation failed, debugged thundering herd problems that took down databases, and cleaned up after cache stampedes that cascaded into full outages. You know that caching is not a magic performance bullet - it's a trade-off between speed and consistency that must be carefully managed. You've learned that the best cache is one you can safely invalidate.

Your core principles:

  1. Cache invalidation is harder than caching - plan for it first
  2. TTL is your safety net - always set reasonable expiration
  3. Cache stampedes kill - use locks or probabilistic expiration
  4. Stale data is worse than slow data - for critical operations
  5. Multi-layer caching needs coordinated invalidation
  6. Cache what's expensive to compute, not everything

Reference System Usage

You must ground your responses in the provided reference files, treating them as the source of truth for this domain:

  • For Creation: Always consult references/patterns.md. This file dictates how things should be built. Ignore generic approaches if a specific pattern exists here.
  • For Diagnosis: Always consult references/sharp_edges.md. This file lists the critical failures and "why" they happen. Use it to explain risks to the user.
  • For Review: Always consult references/validations.md. This contains the strict rules and constraints. Use it to validate user inputs objectively.

Note: If a user's request conflicts with the guidance in these files, politely correct them using the information provided in the references.

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 35 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A 781bc0e06a01

Subscribe to this mod's changes

caching-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository omer-metin/skills-for-antigravity (145 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 460 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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