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+# libCacheSim Skills for Agents
+
+What you can do in this repository. Each section maps to a concrete capability, the tool or API that provides it, and the commands to invoke it.
+
+---
+
+## Build
+
+```bash
+cmake -S . -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
+cmake --build build -j$(nproc)
+```
+
+Produces three binaries in `build/bin/`: `cachesim`, `traceAnalyzer`, `mrcProfiler`.  
+Optional features require XGBoost/LightGBM; omit them unless the algorithm specifically needs it.
+
+Install dependencies first if not present:
+
+```bash
+bash scripts/install_dependency.sh
+```
+
+---
+
+## Simulate a cache
+
+`cachesim` runs one or more eviction algorithms against a trace file and reports hit/miss ratios.
+
+```bash
+# Single algorithm, one cache size
+./build/bin/cachesim trace.oracleGeneral oracleGeneral 1073741824 LRU
+
+# Multiple algorithms in parallel
+./build/bin/cachesim trace.oracleGeneral oracleGeneral 1073741824 LRU,S3-FIFO,Sieve
+
+# Auto-detect working set, sweep a range of sizes
+./build/bin/cachesim trace.oracleGeneral oracleGeneral 0 LRU --num-thread 4
+
+# CSV trace with custom column mapping
+./build/bin/cachesim trace.csv csv 1073741824 LRU \
+  -t "time-col=0, obj-id-col=1, obj-size-col=2, delimiter=,"
+```
+
+**Supported eviction algorithms** (pass by name):  
+FIFO, LRU, Clock, SLRU, LFU, LFUDA, ARC, TwoQ, CLOCK-PRO, Belady, BeladySize, GDSF,  
+Hyperbolic, LeCaR, Cacheus, LHD, LRB, GLCache, WTinyLFU, 3LCache, QD-LP, S3-FIFO, Sieve
+
+**Admission algorithms** (combine with `-a`): Adaptsize, Bloomfilter, Prob, Size
+
+Full parameter reference: `./build/bin/cachesim --help`
+
+---
+
+## Analyze a trace
+
+`traceAnalyzer` extracts statistics and generates plot-ready data from a trace.
+
+```bash
+# Overall statistics
+./build/bin/traceAnalyzer trace.oracleGeneral oracleGeneral --task stat
+
+# Request rate over time (window = 300 s)
+./build/bin/traceAnalyzer trace.oracleGeneral oracleGeneral --task reqRate -w 300
+
+# Object size distribution
+./build/bin/traceAnalyzer trace.oracleGeneral oracleGeneral --task size
+
+# Reuse distance / reuse time distribution
+./build/bin/traceAnalyzer trace.oracleGeneral oracleGeneral --task reuse
+
+# Popularity (frequency distribution)
+./build/bin/traceAnalyzer trace.oracleGeneral oracleGeneral --task popularity
+
+# Run all analysis tasks and write output files for plotting
+./build/bin/traceAnalyzer trace.oracleGeneral oracleGeneral --task all
+```
+
+Output files are written to the current directory and consumed by scripts in `scripts/traceAnalysis/`.
+
+---
+
+## Profile a miss ratio curve (MRC)
+
+`mrcProfiler` builds an MRC without simulating every cache size from scratch.
+
+```bash
+# SHARDS sampler — fast, LRU only
+./build/bin/mrcProfiler trace.oracleGeneral oracleGeneral SHARDS
+
+# MINISIM sampler — supports any algorithm, multi-threaded
+./build/bin/mrcProfiler trace.oracleGeneral oracleGeneral MINISIM --num-thread 8
+
+# MRC relative to working set size
+./build/bin/mrcProfiler trace.oracleGeneral oracleGeneral SHARDS --use-wss
+```
+
+SHARDS achieves ~23× speedup over full replay at <0.1% MAE.  
+MINISIM supports all algorithms that `cachesim` supports.
+
+---
+
+## Plot results
+
+Python scripts in `scripts/` consume output from `traceAnalyzer` and `mrcProfiler`.
+
+```bash
+# Miss ratio curve vs cache size
+python3 scripts/plot_mrc_size.py --input result.mrc
+
+# MRC over time
+python3 scripts/plot_mrc_time.py --input result.mrc
+
+# Approximate MRC (SHARDS / MINISIM output)
+python3 scripts/plot_appr_mrc.py --input result.mrc
+
+# Trace-level plots (run after traceAnalyzer --task all)
+python3 scripts/traceAnalysis/access_pattern.py
+python3 scripts/traceAnalysis/req_rate.py
+python3 scripts/traceAnalysis/popularity.py
+python3 scripts/traceAnalysis/reuse.py
+```
+
+---
+
+## Generate a synthetic trace
+
+```bash
+# Zipf workload: 1M requests, 100K objects, alpha=1.0
+python3 scripts/data_gen.py --num-req 1000000 --num-obj 100000 --alpha 1.0 \
+  --output synthetic.oracleGeneral
+```
+
+---
+
+## Inspect or convert a trace
+
+```bash
+# Print trace as human-readable text
+./build/bin/tracePrint trace.oracleGeneral oracleGeneral | head -20
+
+# Convert between trace formats
+./build/bin/traceConv trace.csv csv trace.oracleGeneral oracleGeneral
+```
+
+---
+
+## Use the C API in code
+
+The library API lets you build custom simulators. See `example/` for complete working programs.
+
+```c
+#include "libCacheSim.h"
+
+// Open a trace
+reader_t *reader = open_trace("trace.oracleGeneral", ORACLE_GENERAL_TRACE, NULL);
+
+// Create a cache (e.g. 1 GiB LRU)
+common_cache_params_t params = default_common_cache_params();
+params.cache_size = 1 * GiB;
+cache_t *cache = LRU_init(params, NULL);
+
+// Simulate
+request_t *req = new_request();
+while (read_one_req(reader, req) == 0) {
+    cache->get(cache, req);  // returns true on hit
+}
+
+free_request(req);
+free_cache(cache);
+close_trace(reader);
+```
+
+**Multi-size simulation** (runs N cache sizes in one pass):
+
+```c
+simulate_at_multi_sizes(reader, cache, n_sizes, cache_sizes, NULL, 0, 4 /*threads*/);
+```
+
+See `example/cacheSimulator/` for a minimal single-cache example and  
+`example/cacheSimulatorConcurrent/` for multi-size and CSV trace usage.
+
+---
+
+## Add a new eviction algorithm
+
+1. Create `libCacheSim/cache/eviction/MyAlgo.c` — implement `init`, `get`, `find`, `insert`, `evict`, `remove`, `free`.
+2. Register it in `libCacheSim/cache/cacheObj.c` and the algo name map.
+3. Add it to `CMakeLists.txt`.
+4. Rebuild and verify with `cachesim`.
+
+See `doc/advanced_lib_extend.md` for the full walkthrough and `doc/advanced_lib.md` for internal data structures.
+
+---
+
+## Write a plugin (without modifying core)
+
+The plugin system lets you implement an algorithm as a shared library loaded at runtime.
+
+```bash
+cd example/plugin_v2
+cmake -S . -B build && cmake --build build
+./build/test_plugin trace.oracleGeneral oracleGeneral 1073741824
+```
+
+Implement the six hooks in your plugin: `plugin_init`, `plugin_hit`, `plugin_miss`, `plugin_eviction`, `plugin_remove`, `plugin_free`. See `example/plugin_v2/myPlugin.cpp`.
+
+---
+
+## Run tests
+
+```bash
+cd build && ctest --output-on-failure
+```
+
+---
+
+## Trace formats
+
+| Format | Description |
+|---|---|
+| `oracleGeneral` | Binary struct: `{uint32 timestamp, uint64 obj_id, uint32 obj_size, int64 next_access_vtime}`. Supports `.zst` compression. |
+| `csv` | Plain text; column mapping required via `-t` flag. |
+| `binary` | Raw fixed-width binary records. |
+
+Object IDs in oracleGeneral are hashed values. `next_access_vtime` is logical time (request count, not wall clock).