api-caching-strategies SKILL.md skillA
api-caching-strategies from agents-inc/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add agents-inc/skills/api-caching-strategies@git:20261016.afd0e14Pins git:20261016.afd0e14 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- agents-inc/skills
- Path
src/skills/api-caching-strategies/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261016.afd0e14, committed Oct 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 9, 2026
- Size
- 17,515 bytes
- Repository stars
- 26
- License
- MIT
Application-level caching strategies, HTTP caching, cache invalidation, and stampede prevention.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Caching Strategies > **Quick Guide:** Choose the right caching strategy for your use case: cache-aside for read-heavy data, write-through for consistency, write-behind for write-heavy workloads. Always set TTL to prevent stale data and memory exhaustion. Use HTTP caching headers (Cache-Control, ETag, Last-Modified) for API responses. Prevent cache stampedes with locking or request coalescing. Measure cache hit rates before and after -- caching without metrics is guessing. --- <critical_requirements> ## CRITICAL: Before Using This Skill **(You MUST set TTL on ALL cached data -- cache without TTL leads to memory exhaustion and infinitely stale data)** **(You MUST use namespaced cache keys with a consistent prefix -- generic keys cause collisions across data types)** **(You MUST invalidate or update cache entries on writes -- serving stale data after mutation breaks user trust)** **(You MUST implement stampede prevention (locking or coalescing) for high-traffic cache keys -- concurrent misses can overwhelm your data source)** </critical_requirements> --- …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add agents-inc/skills/api-caching-strategies@sha256:db9d76babd88cdabThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261016.afd0e14, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_mlx3v52gggvfi43s)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 9, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026, about one every 99 days.
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| git:20261016.afd0e14 latest | 2026-10-16 | afd0e14 | 17,515 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260709.a28d77d | 2026-07-09 | a28d77d | 17,714 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
agents-inc/skills · 26 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-27 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mlx3v52gggvfi43s GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=agents-inc/skills/api-caching-strategies GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/db9d76babd88cdabeed7fb3af2f235fc936d52bc413f1c74cda0bacf9140ec2d
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