runtime-cache
A skill in Vercel's plugin for coding agents about the Vercel Runtime Cache, a short-lived key-value cache kept per region and shared by Vercel Functions, Routing Middleware and builds, with invalidation by tag.
What the skill teaches
A skill in Vercel's plugin for coding agents about the Vercel Runtime Cache, a short-lived key-value cache kept per region and shared by Vercel Functions, Routing Middleware and builds, with invalidation by tag. It shows the agent the get, set and delete calls from @vercel/functions and their options, how to expire tags from a server action, the functions for purging CDN cache, how Next.js 16 uses it through the use cache: remote directive and its invalidation APIs, related CLI commands, size limits, observability, and when this cache is or is not the right choice compared with framework caching.
Capabilities
- Read and write the Vercel Runtime Cache from functions
- Invalidate cached entries by tag
- Purge CDN cache entries
- Use remote caching in Next.js 16
Install
- Run this to add it to Any client:
npx plugins add vercel/vercel-plugin
What's inside
- .vercel.approvers
Details
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Skill | |
| Tool | Vercel | |
| Publisher | Vercel | source |
| Official status | OfficialVercel's docs describe the vercel/vercel-plugin repository as Vercel's plugin | source |
| Needs an API key or sign-in | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Includes scripts | No | source |
| Platforms | Not stated in its documentation | |
| AI clients | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | source |
| Pricing | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Activity | Last commit Nov 10, 2026333 GitHub starsDownload data not available (not on npm or PyPI) | source |
| Links | Repository Website |
Copies of this skill in other repositories (2)
These differ from this skill's text. They may be adapted copies or older versions.
- runtime-cachexiaotianna/pi-harness
- runtime-cachebuild-with-dhiraj/ai-workflow-framework-portability-kit
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Sources
- Skill file (SKILL.md)github.com/vercel/vercel-plugin · Backs: Publisher, Includes scripts, LicenceNov 10, 2026
- GitHub repositorygithub.com/vercel/vercel-plugin · Backs: ActivityNov 11, 2026
- Licence file (LICENSE)github.com/vercel/vercel-plugin · Backs: LicenceNov 13, 2026
- Web pagevercel.com · Backs: Official statusNov 13, 2026
- Folder in the repository (runtime-cache)github.com/vercel/vercel-plugin · Backs: Includes scriptsNov 10, 2026