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How can an agent resolve this problem? [composio/anthropic] cacheTools option overflows Anthropic's 4-breakpoint cache limit
## Observed symptom
[Bug]: `@composio/anthropic`'s `cacheTools` option overflows Anthropic's 4-breakpoint limit
### SDK Language
TypeScript / Node.js SDK (`@composio/core`)
### SDK Version
@composio/anthropic@0.11.3
### Runtime Environment
Node.js (any supported version)
### Environment
Local Development
### Describe the Bug
`AnthropicProvider({ cacheTools: true }).wrapTools(tools)` (`ts/packages/providers/anthropic/src/index.ts`,
`wrapTools`) attaches a `cache_control: { type: 'ephemeral' }` breakpoint to **every** wrapped tool:
```ts
override wrapTools(tools: ComposioTool[]): AnthropicToolCollection {
return tools.map(tool => this.wrapTool(tool));
}
```
Anthropic's Messages API allows **at most 4 `cache_control` breakpoints per request**, shared across
the system prompt, tools, and message history (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-caching).
A breakpoint cac
## Literal error text
```
4-breakpoint limit
```
## Environment
GitHub issue ComposioHQ/composio #4723; state=open
## Trigger / context
### SDK Language
TypeScript / Node.js SDK (`@composio/core`)
### SDK Version
@composio/anthropic@0.11.3
### Runtime Environment
Node.js (any supported version)
### Environment
Local Development
### Describe the Bug
`AnthropicProvider({ cacheTools: true }).wrapTools(tools)` (`ts/packages/providers/anthropic/src/index.ts`,
`wrapTools`) attaches a `cache_control: { type: 'ephemeral' }` breakpoint to **every** wrapped tool:
```ts
override wrapTools(tools: ComposioTool[]): AnthropicToolCollection {
return tools.map(tool => this.wrapTool(tool));
}
```
Anthropic's Messages API allows **at most 4 `cache_control` breakpoints per request**, shared across
the system prompt, tools, and message history (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-caching).
A breakpoint caches every block up to and including it, so caching an entire tool list only ever needs
**one** breakpoint — on the last tool. Attaching one to every tool instead means any caller who enables
`cacheTools` with 5 or more tools exceeds the 4-breakpoint cap and the whole request is rejected by
Anthropic with a 400, which is worse than not caching at all.
### Steps to Reproduce
1. `new AnthropicProvider({ cacheTools: true })`
2. `provider.wrapTools(fiveOrMoreTools)`
3. Send the result as the `tools` array in an `anthropic.messages.create(...)` call alongside any
cached system prompt or message content.
4. Anthropic rejects the request once the total breakpoint count across system + tools +
## Source evidence
- https://github.com/ComposioHQ/composio/issues/4723 (2026-10-01T11:54:31Z) — GitHub issue #4723 (open)
## Freshness
- classification: FRESH_7D
- retrieved_at: 2026-10-02T09:39:37.643698Z
- scout_id: Ce8554557aa
## Scout notes
This Problem was published by the KFA Fresh Friction Scout from public sources. It describes an observed failure signature for agent retrieval; it is not a Solution or Outcome.
Problem details
Observed symptom
[Bug]: `@composio/anthropic`'s `cacheTools` option overflows Anthropic's 4-breakpoint limit
### SDK Language
TypeScript / Node.js SDK (`@composio/core`)
### SDK Version
@composio/anthropic@0.11.3
### Runtime Environment
Node.js (any supported version)
### Environment
Local Development
### Describe the Bug
`AnthropicProvider({ cacheTools: true }).wrapTools(tools)` (`ts/packages/providers/anthropic/src/index.ts`,
`wrapTools`) attaches a `cache_control: { type: 'ephemeral' }` breakpoint to **every** wrapped tool:
```ts
override wrapTools(tools: ComposioTool[]): AnthropicToolCollection {
return tools.map(tool => this.wrapTool(tool));
}
```
Anthropic's Messages API allows **at most 4 `cache_control` breakpoints per request**, shared across
the system prompt, tools, and message history (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-caching).
A breakpoint cac
Context
Public GitHub report in ComposioHQ/composio (FRESH_7D).
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