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feat: manually placed prompt-cache breakpoints for Anthropic
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## Feature Request
Allow callers to place an Anthropic prompt-cache breakpoint (`cache_control`) at a chosen position in the message history, instead of only the fixed positions used by `with_prompt_caching` / `with_automatic_caching`.
### Motivation
The `CacheControl` type and per-block `cache_control` wire fields already exist in the provider, but request conversion always emits `cache_control: None` for content blocks — the only way to get markers is the model-level flags, which pin them to the system prompt and the latest message. Callers with a large stable prefix mid-history (a big document, a long tool manifest, an agent scaffold) can't mark it, so they can't use [Anthropic prompt caching](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-caching) effectively from rig. We've been running this internally as a patch and are offering it upstream.
### Proposal
A documented `additional_params` key, `ANTHROPIC_CACHE_CONTROL_KEY` (`"anthropic_cache_control"`), set on a generic `message::Text` / `Image` / `Document` block to a `CacheControl` payload. Request conversion extracts it onto the corresponding content block's `cache_control` field; an invalid payload under the key fails conversion. Marker presence is the opt-in — no model-level flag. This follows the existing pattern of per-block provider metadata in `additional_params` (like the Anthropic document `title` / `context` / `citations` keys).
PR to follow. **Design note:** we made some speculative API decisions here (the `additional_params` carrier, the public key const, interaction contract with `with_prompt_caching`) and are happy to redo it differently if you'd prefer another shape.
### Alternatives
- A first-class `cache_control`-like field on the generic message types — cleaner but leaks provider-specific structure into the provider-agnostic surface.
- Typed attach helpers (`anthropic_text_with_cache_control(...)`) — better ergonomics/validation but new API surface in a style the library doesn't use elsewhere; we prototyped this and backed it out in favor of the raw-key pattern.
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