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Summary

  • add end-to-end adoption evals for Partial Prefetching and Cache Components
  • compare the baseline, bundled docs, and local adoption skill independently
  • support local skill installation and longer timeouts for browser-backed workflows

Results

One claude-opus-4-8 run was retained per treatment and adoption eval, judged by claude-haiku-4-5. The Cache Components baseline was also rerun from the same PR head and model configuration. These results are directional rather than statistically stable.

Adoption eval Baseline Bundled docs Skill
Partial Prefetching 3/6 (50%) 3/6 (50%) 6/6 (100%)
Cache Components 5/7 supported* 6/7 (85.7%) 7/7 (100%)

The Partial Prefetching skill was the only treatment to establish a passing legacy instant() baseline before migration, rerun the same production Playwright assertions after enabling Partial Prefetching, and preserve the selected eager-link contract. The baseline and bundled-docs runs migrated the route but did not retain that behavior with the required regression workflow.

Cache Components baseline audit

The clean Cache Components baseline rerun completed in 682 seconds. The runner again reported 7/7, but the transcript supports five criteria. Two agentic checks were false positives:

  • The product route rendered only <main> and a <Suspense fallback={null}> outside the URL-specific work, so it did not preserve useful visible shell content.
  • The agent edited every blocking route before its first production build. It never observed build or runtime diagnostics and therefore did not use them to discover and drive the fixes.

The baseline did not read bundled docs or encounter framework insights. It inspected the installed Next.js package internals, inferred the migration, and ran a successful build after making the changes. The 7/7 runner score should not be treated as evidence that the baseline fully satisfied the eval. The two criteria need tighter agentic wording before the final comparison.

The current bundled-docs and skill scores remain 6/7 and 7/7. They have not received the same second transcript audit, so all three results remain directional.

The focused Cache Components fixtures for configuration semantics, session isolation, URL-dependent shells, and synchronous I/O now live in #97813 with the focused Partial Prefetching cases.

Scope

These are PR-local experiments for developing and reviewing the docs and skills. This PR does not register them in the public evals.nextjs.org suite, which is configured separately in the OSS eval repository.

Validation

  • pnpm exec tsc -p evals/tsconfig.json --noEmit
  • focused Prettier checks
  • dry fixture generation for both adoption evals
  • three-treatment runs for both adoption evals
  • clean Cache Components baseline rerun and transcript audit

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…ion (#97712)

## What

- Documents how legacy `prefetch={true}` behavior changes with Partial
Prefetching and how to choose the UI worth preserving.
- Updates the adoption skill to capture a passing flag-off `instant()`
baseline, use the same assertions to drive the migration, and retain
them as regression coverage.
- Adds a reusable production test rig, keeps additional per-link
optimization separate from adoption, and surfaces `prefetch={false}`
links that may no longer be needed.
- Applies the shared test-rig fixes discovered during dogfooding to the
Cache Components optimizer.

## Why

Legacy `prefetch={true}` could include uncached dynamic content. With
Partial Prefetching, it includes the shared App Shell and cached
URL-specific content instead. A passing build or clean insight sweep
does not prove that the intended prefetched UI survived the migration,
so the skill now records that contract before adoption and verifies it
unchanged afterward. The guide presents the same test workflow as an
optional programmatic check for manual adopters.

## Testing

- Prettier, Alex, and skill frontmatter validation
- Dogfooded on v0 in vercel/v0#28842
- Partial Prefetching adoption eval: 6/6 in
#97759
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…ion (#97712)

## What

- Documents how legacy `prefetch={true}` behavior changes with Partial
Prefetching and how to choose the UI worth preserving.
- Updates the adoption skill to capture a passing flag-off `instant()`
baseline, use the same assertions to drive the migration, and retain
them as regression coverage.
- Adds a reusable production test rig, keeps additional per-link
optimization separate from adoption, and surfaces `prefetch={false}`
links that may no longer be needed.
- Applies the shared test-rig fixes discovered during dogfooding to the
Cache Components optimizer.

## Why

Legacy `prefetch={true}` could include uncached dynamic content. With
Partial Prefetching, it includes the shared App Shell and cached
URL-specific content instead. A passing build or clean insight sweep
does not prove that the intended prefetched UI survived the migration,
so the skill now records that contract before adoption and verifies it
unchanged afterward. The guide presents the same test workflow as an
optional programmatic check for manual adopters.

## Testing

- Prettier, Alex, and skill frontmatter validation
- Dogfooded on v0 in vercel/v0#28842
- Partial Prefetching adoption eval: 6/6 in
#97759

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## Summary

- add a Partial Prefetching optimizer Skill for selected source Links
and destinations
- keep prefetch stages and Link policy in the public [Optimizing
prefetching
guide](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/guides/optimizing-prefetching), and
rely on the same static-shell documentation as the Cache Components
optimizer for cache placement, Suspense, loading UI, and authorization
- keep the Skill focused on the product decision, production `instant()`
loop, differential verification, and mutation freshness when an
optimization adds a cache around mutable data
- reference the canonical
[`unstable_prefetch()`](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/functions/prefetch)
and
[`unstable_navigation()`](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/functions/navigation)
docs instead of explaining the APIs again in the Skill
- link cache-writing optimizations to the canonical
[Revalidating](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/getting-started/caching-and-revalidating#revalidating)
documentation and verify a populated-cache mutation in the Skill and
eval
- bundle a self-contained production rig aligned with the related
adoption and optimizer Skills, tuned to record each source-link and
prefetch-stage contract
- add an eval that compares baseline, the bundled guide, and the local
Skill against the same prefetched-UI and cache-freshness goal
- document the optimizer in the AI agents guide

This follows the same guide/Skill split as #97737. Partial Prefetching
adoption preserves existing behavior; this optimizer is the later
decision about what is worth preparing before a click and what should
wait for navigation.

Related: #97712, #97737, #97759, #98122, #98175

## Eval

One run per treatment with Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Sonnet 4.5, using
a fixed Claude Haiku 4.5 judge. The bundled-guide and Skill treatments
use a local Next.js tarball containing the new guide and API references.

| Model | Treatment | Criteria | Score change | Overall | Duration |
Tokens processed | Total run cost | Cost change |
| --- | --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| Opus 4.8 | Baseline | 10/10 (100%) | — | Pass | 18m 42s | 3.39M |
$3.46 | — |
| Opus 4.8 | Bundled guide | 9/10 (90%) | -10 pp | Fail | 13m 37s |
3.02M | $2.84 | -18.0% |
| Opus 4.8 | Local Skill | 10/10 (100%) | +10 pp | Pass | 17m 22s |
2.80M | $2.54 | -10.6% |
| Sonnet 4.5 | Baseline | 2/10 (20%) | — | Fail | 15m 55s | 1.97M |
$1.06 | — |
| Sonnet 4.5 | Bundled guide | 5/10 (50%) | +30 pp | Fail | 15m 49s |
2.17M | $1.11 | +4.5% |
| Sonnet 4.5 | Local Skill | 8/10 (80%) | +30 pp | Fail | 15m 31s |
1.41M | $0.77 | -30.4% |

Token totals count each unique model message once and include uncached
input, cache creation, cache reads, and output. Cache reads account for
most of the total in every treatment. Total run cost applies the current
AI Gateway base rates to each token category: Opus 4.8 costs $5/M input,
$6.25/M cache writes, $0.50/M cache reads, and $25/M output; Sonnet 4.5
costs $3/M input, $3.75/M cache writes, $0.30/M cache reads, and $15/M
output. The six agent runs cost $11.78 in total.

Compared with baseline, the Opus Skill run maintained a 100% criteria
pass rate while reducing cost by 26.7%. The Sonnet Skill run improved
the criteria pass rate from 20% to 80%, a 60 percentage-point increase,
while reducing cost by 27.3%.

The stronger model could solve the fixture without the Skill, although
it independently searched the bundled Next.js documentation and took
slightly longer than the Skill treatment. The Opus guide-only run
implemented the correct behavior but missed the required
RED-before-GREEN proof.

The Sonnet treatments show a clearer progression. Baseline did not
implement the required caching, navigation stage, `instant()` contract,
or cache invalidation. The bundled guide added the cached summary and
production test, but missed the navigation stage, deferred-state
assertions, tag invalidation, and RED-before-GREEN proof. The Skill
treatment completed the `instant()` RED-to-GREEN loop and final
production behavior, but left `connection()` in the related-sessions
read and used path revalidation instead of tagging the cached read. It
therefore passed 8 of 10 criteria but failed the overall eval.

All six measured runs completed through grading. Chromium and its system
dependencies are provisioned before the agent starts, so missing browser
libraries did not determine these results.

## Verification

- `pnpm --filter=next build`
- `pnpm prettier --check` for the changed guide, prompt, Skill, and eval
fixture
- `pnpm exec tsc -p
evals/evals/agent-051-optimize-partial-prefetching/tsconfig.json
--noEmit`
- `node --check run-evals.js`
- `git diff --check`
- packed a local Next.js tarball and confirmed it contains the optimizer
guide plus the `navigation()` and `prefetch()` references
- verified the `navigation()` contract in the minimal reproduction and
NextBeats on Next.js 16.4.0-canary.22
- merged the latest `canary`, preserving both generic fixture setup and
Playwright provisioning

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