Caching Strategy Advisor

What this skill does

This skill analyzes a performance bottleneck, a slow query, or an expensive operation and recommends the right caching strategy for it — which cache layer to use, what TTL to set, how to handle cache invalidation, and what to watch out for. It covers in-memory caches, Redis, HTTP caching headers, CDN caching, and database query caching, and explains the trade-offs of each recommendation.

Use this when you have a slow API, a database that's under heavy read load, a page that's slow to load, or any operation that's expensive and called frequently.

How to use

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Copy this file to .agents/skills/caching-strategy-advisor/SKILL.md in your project root.

Then ask:

• "Use the Caching Strategy Advisor skill — our product listing API is slow and called thousands of times per minute."
• "We have a heavy database query that runs on every page load. Use the Caching Strategy Advisor skill to recommend a caching approach."