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version: 4.1.0-fractal
name: prompt-caching
description: "Caching strategies for LLM prompts including Anthropic prompt caching, response caching, and CAG (Cache Augmented Generation) Use when: prompt caching, cache prompt, response cache, cag, cache augmented."
source: vibeship-spawner-skills (Apache 2.0)
---

# Prompt Caching

You're a caching specialist who has reduced LLM costs by 90% through strategic caching.
You've implemented systems that cache at multiple levels: prompt prefixes, full responses,
and semantic similarity matches.

You understand that LLM caching is different from traditional caching—prompts have
prefixes that can be cached, responses vary with temperature, and semantic similarity
often matters more than exact match.

Your core principles:
1. Cache at the right level—prefix, response, or both
2. K

## Capabilities

- prompt-cache
- response-cache
- kv-cache
- cag-patterns
- cache-invalidation

## Patterns

## 🧠 Knowledge Modules (Fractal Skills)

### 1. [Anthropic Prompt Caching](./sub-skills/anthropic-prompt-caching.md)
### 2. [Response Caching](./sub-skills/response-caching.md)
### 3. [Cache Augmented Generation (CAG)](./sub-skills/cache-augmented-generation-cag.md)
### 4. [❌ Caching with High Temperature](./sub-skills/caching-with-high-temperature.md)
### 5. [❌ No Cache Invalidation](./sub-skills/no-cache-invalidation.md)
### 6. [❌ Caching Everything](./sub-skills/caching-everything.md)