feat(ai-bedrock): add prompt caching to Converse

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The Bedrock Converse adapter cannot use prompt caching. Bedrock caches only the part of a request before a cachePoint block, and the adapter never emits one. This change reads metadata.cachePoint from system prompts, text content parts, and tools, and places the block right after each item.

🎯 Changes

• Add BedrockCachePoint ({ type: 'default', ttl?: '5m' | '1h' }), BedrockSystemPromptMetadata, and BedrockToolMetadata. BedrockTextMetadata gains cachePoint.
• toConverseMessages and toToolConfig append a cachePoint block after any system prompt, text part, or tool whose metadata sets it.
• The adapter declares BedrockSystemPromptMetadata as its system prompt metadata type, so chat() type-checks systemPrompts[i].metadata.
• E2E spec bedrock-converse-cache.spec.ts runs the real adapter and AWS SDK against an aimock mount that speaks vnd.amazon.eventstream.
• Docs: The "Prompt caching" section explains conditional cache billing and the TTL order across tools, system prompts, and messages.

Usage reporting for cache reads and writes landed in #1300. This PR is the request side.

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Testing

Commands run.

• NX_DAEMON=false pnpm test:pr: passed.
• pnpm test:docs: passed.
• pnpm nx run @tanstack/ai-bedrock:test:lib: 100 tests passed, 4 of them new.
• pnpm --filter @tanstack/ai-e2e test:e2e -- --grep bedrock-converse: passed.

E2E.

aimock does not replay the Converse event stream, so global-setup.ts mounts /bedrock-converse-cache, which encodes the frames with @smithy/eventstream-codec (see "Bedrock Converse coverage gap" in testing/e2e/README.md). The route pins the SDK client to HTTP/1.1 because the SDK defaults to HTTP/2 for streaming and aimock speaks HTTP/1.1. The request sets metadata.cachePoint on the system prompt, the only tool, and the last text part. The spec asserts:

observed: { tools: true, system: true, lastMessage: true }
usage.promptTokens: 3
usage.promptTokensDetails: { cachedTokens: 8409, cacheWriteTokens: 0 }

Manual test.

Requires AWS credentials and a Claude model that supports prompt caching.

1. Call chat() with bedrockText(...), a system prompt longer than the model's minimum checkpoint size, and metadata: { cachePoint: { type: 'default' } } on that prompt.
2. Call it again within 5 minutes.
3. Read onUsage after each call.

The first call reports cacheWriteTokens equal to the prompt size. The second reports the same number as cachedTokens. A run of this branch against global.anthropic.claude-opus-4-6-v1 in ap-northeast-2, with three checkpoints (tools, system, last message), returned this RUN_FINISHED.usage:

call 1: { promptTokens: 3, completionTokens: 5, totalTokens: 16762, promptTokensDetails: { cachedTokens: 0,     cacheWriteTokens: 16754 } }
call 2: { promptTokens: 3, completionTokens: 5, totalTokens: 16762, promptTokensDetails: { cachedTokens: 16754, cacheWriteTokens: 0 } }

How this PR makes testing easy.

tests/converse/message-converter.test.ts and tests/converse/tool-converter.test.ts assert the block placement. tests/converse/adapter.test.ts checks the request at the SDK seam. testing/e2e/tests/bedrock-converse-cache.spec.ts covers the same over the wire. The docs example type-checks against the adapter.

Risk / rollback

Risk is low. Nothing changes unless a caller sets metadata.cachePoint. A checkpoint below the model's minimum size is ignored by Bedrock; the request still succeeds.

Revert this PR to restore the previous behavior.

Public API change

Before

// No way to request a cache checkpoint on the Converse path.

After

chat({
  adapter: bedrockText('us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929-v1:0'),
  systemPrompts: [
    { content: stablePrompt, metadata: { cachePoint: { type: 'default' } } },
  ],
  messages,
})

New exports: BedrockCachePoint, BedrockSystemPromptMetadata, BedrockToolMetadata.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added prompt-caching support to the Bedrock Converse adapter.
  • Cache points can be applied to system prompts, message content, and tool definitions.
  • Supports 5-minute and 1-hour cache lifetimes, subject to model support and a four-checkpoint request limit.
  • Added public metadata types for configuring cache points.

• Documentation

  • Clarified checkpoint ordering, eligibility, and billing: cache-rate savings apply to matching cache hits, while misses use standard input rates.

• Tests

  • Added unit and end-to-end coverage for cache-point conversion and cache usage reporting.

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Adds typed prompt-cache checkpoints to the Bedrock Converse adapter for system prompts, message content, and tools. Adds conversion tests, an end-to-end mock stream and route, usage assertions, documentation, and a release changeset.

Changes

Bedrock Converse prompt caching

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Cache-point contracts and conversion packages/ai-bedrock/src/message-types.ts, packages/ai-bedrock/src/converse/..., packages/ai-bedrock/src/index.ts	Adds public cache-point metadata types. Converts metadata into Converse blocks after system prompts, text parts, and tool definitions.
Adapter integration and unit validation packages/ai-bedrock/src/adapters/converse-text.ts, packages/ai-bedrock/tests/converse/...	Threads system and tool metadata through the adapter. Tests generated system, message, and tool cache-point entries.
End-to-end cache flow testing/e2e/global-setup.ts, testing/e2e/src/routes/..., testing/e2e/src/routeTree.gen.ts, testing/e2e/tests/..., testing/e2e/package.json, testing/e2e/README.md	Adds a mocked Converse event stream, a cache test route, route registration, dependency setup, and assertions for checkpoint placement and usage counters.
Documentation and release note docs/adapters/bedrock.md, .changeset/bedrock-converse-cache-point.md	Documents cache-point eligibility, TTL options, ordering, limits, and billing behavior. Adds the release changeset.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b1b53

Cache-point requests containing mixed TTLs may be rejected or behave unexpectedly when tool and prompt checkpoints are assembled in an invalid order. Resolve the ordering issue before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Test as bedrock-converse-cache.spec.ts
  participant Route as /api/bedrock-converse-cache
  participant Adapter as Http1ConverseAdapter
  participant Mock as Bedrock Converse mock
  Test->>Route: POST cache test request
  Route->>Adapter: Stream chat with cachePoint metadata
  Adapter->>Mock: Send Converse stream request
  Mock-->>Adapter: Return event-stream usage and text
  Adapter-->>Route: Return output and usage
  Route-->>Test: Return checkpoint observations and counters

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