ReadonlybatchOptional ReadonlycomposedPresent on a cache that composes the storage it holds (see ComposedStorage).
ReadonlyleftOptional ReadonlymaxOptionalminimumEarliest prefix whose retained representation can resume generation. Irreversible transitions may preserve bytes while invalidating older precision boundaries. Reuse policy must not trim below this offset.
Optional ReadonlyprefillA preparation method commits each request's own precision boundary. Splitting a forward for a sibling must not move that boundary.
Optional ReadonlyropeCompiled-decode trace adapters expose the RoPE offset as an int32 array input here; real caches leave it unset (static int path).
ReadonlyrowOptional Readonlystatestate() returned temporary views that the caller must release.
OptionalbytesPhysical cache storage consumed by one additional token for one row. Recurrent caches return 0 because their state does not grow with the sequence. Optional for stateless/training adapters that are never admitted or persisted.
OptionalcanWhether row can be published as a cache covering exactly tokens
positions. State that cannot be trimmed (recurrent) refuses a row whose own
count differs: an entry keyed to other tokens would corrupt every later
exact hit. Absent: any row can be published.
OptionalcaptureOptionalcaptureCan trim(n) drop the last n tokens? (Ring caches lose trimability
once wrapped.)
OptionalmaxMaximum committed positions before this state changes precision.
Stable storage identity for compatibility guards and persistence. REQUIRED: every capability predicate (isPlainKvCache, isRotating*, packages/inference/src/state/persistence.ts codecs) is a string compare on this value, so a missing override used to fail OPEN into wrong routing (PRs #42/#43: BatchedRotatingCache shipped without one and batched joins dropped running rows). Wrappers report their own kind plus the inner kind.
OptionalspecSpeculative verify-round support for NON-trimmable recurrent caches
(SSMCache — gated-DeltaNet conv + recurrent state). A cache exposing
these is spec-eligible without isTrimmable(): the serve loop arms a
round before the verify forward (the layer snapshots pre-round state —
free, MLX arrays are immutable — and records its position-local kernel
inputs), then resolves it: commit on full accept, or rollback(keep)
which restores the snapshot and bit-exactly REPLAYS the first keep
window tokens through the recurrence (identical arithmetic prefix ⇒
identical state). Trimmable caches leave these unset and keep trim().
OptionalspecOptionalspecDrop the last n tokens (future writes overwrite them). bypass (default
false → unchanged behavior) skips the isTrimmable guard for the
speculative-decode rollback case (trim the last n ≤ γ tips right after a
1 concat write); rotating caches then physically shrink the buffer tail.
Optionalbypass: boolean
Preserve the graph's layout capabilities when an empty sibling is made.