Cache Layout¶

By default, artifacts are written under:

~/.cache/argcomplete-snapshot/<cli-name>/

Example:

~/.cache/argcomplete-snapshot/mycli/
  snapshot-v1.json
  completion-v1.bash
  version-stamp

Files¶

Serialized snapshot of the extracted parser structure and completion metadata.

Generated Bash completion runtime sourced by the activation bootstrap.

Runtime metadata used to determine whether the cache is still valid for the installed executable and schema version.

The cache is rebuilt when the runtime decides the stored signature, entrypoint, or schema no longer matches the current environment.

Use --cache-root if you need to redirect artifacts for testing or custom packaging layouts.