DSPy Utilities: Caching, Debugging, Save/Load, and Validation

Guide the user through DSPy's utility functions -- controlling caching, debugging calls, persisting optimized programs, and enforcing runtime constraints with reward functions.

Looking for streaming, async, or MCP? These have dedicated skills now:

• Streaming tokens to a UI -- see /dspy-streaming
• Async execution and FastAPI -- see /dspy-async
• MCP server integration -- see /dspy-mcp

Step 1: Which utility do you need?

Ask the user before diving in:

1. What are you trying to do? Debug a failing program, save/load an optimized program, control caching, or validate outputs with reward functions?
2. Is this for development or production? Development needs (debugging, cache control) differ from production needs (save/load, validation).

Then jump to the relevant section below.

2. configure_cache -- controlling cache behavior