Koog 1.0 idioms, gotchas, and scaffolding skills for Kotlin agents on the JVM
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88%
Does it follow best practices?
Impact
87%
1.85xAverage score across 45 eval scenarios
Advisory
Suggest reviewing before use
A developer runs a Koog 1.0 agent on Anthropic Opus. The agent has a multi-thousand-word system prompt with detailed instructions and examples — it never changes between calls. The agent is invoked frequently from production traffic, and the developer is paying full token rates for the same system content on every call. Each call's user input is short and unique.
They've heard "caching can help" and ask: "Can we cache the LLM responses so we don't pay for repeated calls?" — they want the response cost reduced.
The conversation prompts and user inputs are NOT repeated — the responses must remain fully LLM-generated per call. The repetition is purely in the stable system prompt content.
Walk through what to recommend. Produce the response as a single message — including any code you'd write or any clarification you'd offer the developer.
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skills
add-observability
add-persistence
add-rag
add-structured-output
add-token-budgeting
add-tool
cache-llm-calls
define-prompt
domain-model-subtask-pipeline
references
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handle-agent-events
manage-state
migrate-from-0-x
model-planner-subtasks
persist-chat-history
query-sql-from-agent
scaffold-agent
snapshot-and-restore
test-koog-agents
trace-agent-internals
use-attachments
use-functional-agent
use-llm-node-variants
use-planner
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wire-acp-server
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