implementing-database-caching

Process use when you need to implement multi-tier caching to improve database performance. This skill sets up Redis, in-memory caching, and CDN layers to reduce database load. Trigger with phrases like "implement database caching", "add Redis cache layer", "improve query performance with caching", or "reduce database load".

Quality

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Does it follow best practices?

Impact

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Securityby

Passed

No known issues

Quality

Content

65%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A highly actionable, technically dense skill with concrete commands and values throughout. Its weaknesses are verbosity in the Overview/Examples, missing mid-process validation loops, and a monolithic structure that ignores its own bundle files.

Suggestions

Tighten the Overview sentence and convert the three prose Examples into compact key/value-style specs (data type, TTL, hit rate) to cut tokens.

Add explicit mid-process validation checkpoints and a fix-retry loop — particularly around cache invalidation (step 8) and after Redis config — rather than relying on end-to-end testing alone in step 10.

Reference the bundled scripts (e.g. scripts/redis_setup.py) from the body, or remove stale placeholders; scripts/README.md advertises cache_invalidation.py and cache_stats.py that do not exist.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is dense and operational without explaining concepts Claude already knows, but the Overview sentence and the three prose Examples paragraphs could be tightened into concrete specs.	2 / 3
Actionability	Provides fully executable guidance — Redis commands (SET ... EX 3600, SET key:lock NX EX 5, DEL), concrete TTL values, maxmemory settings, named libraries, and metrics formulas — copy-paste ready.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	A clear 10-step sequence exists with an end validation step (step 10), but there are no mid-process checkpoints or fix-retry loops, and cache invalidation (step 8) is a mutation step lacking an explicit validate-then-retry feedback loop.	2 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	The body is well-sectioned but monolithic, with all detail inline; bundle files exist (scripts/redis_setup.py, scripts/README.md, assets/README.md) yet are never referenced or signaled from the body, and scripts/README.md lists files (cache_invalidation.py, cache_stats.py) that are not present.	2 / 3
	Total	9 / 12 Passed

Description

100%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description is concise, third-person, and clearly states both capability and trigger conditions with natural keywords. It is among the strongest description examples.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names multiple concrete actions — "sets up Redis, in-memory caching, and CDN layers" and "implement multi-tier caching to improve database performance" — rather than vague language.	3 / 3
Completeness	Explicitly answers both what (sets up Redis, in-memory, and CDN caching layers) and when via a "use when you need to implement multi-tier caching" clause plus enumerated trigger phrases.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Provides natural trigger phrases users would say: "implement database caching", "add Redis cache layer", "improve query performance with caching", "reduce database load".	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Occupies a clear niche (multi-tier database caching) with distinct triggers unlikely to fire for unrelated skills.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Validation

87%

Warnings & errors only

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 14 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
allowed_tools_field	'allowed-tools' contains unusual tool name(s)	Warning
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	14 / 16 Passed

Repository: jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills
Commit: 2cafb23

Reviewed: 2 days ago

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