---
id: META-8
family: RT-META
level: extended
profiles: [runtime, editor-client]
posture: normative-target
added: "1.0"
changed: "1.0"
source: https://flowdrop.io/spec/rules/rt-meta/meta-8
specification: FlowDrop Workflow Specification 1.0-draft
licence: CC BY 4.0
---

# META-8 — The two schema variants are cached on deliberately different terms

*RT-META (Part II) · level: extended · profiles: runtime, editor-client · added in 1.0*

The annotated document reattaches translated text from live plugins, so a shared copy would serve one interface language's annotations to a reader in another.

## The rule

> **Normative.** This is the rule.
>
> 1. The plain workflow schema document is publicly cacheable for at most 60 seconds.
>
> 2. The annotated document is served `no-cache`.
>
> 3. A schema response varies by the argument selecting the variant on every path, including the one that adds nothing else, and varies by interface language only when annotated.
>
> 4. A response is invalidated when the workflow it describes changes, and by nothing broader.

## Related rules

- Names: META-6
- Referenced by: META-6

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Rule identifiers are permanent and are never renumbered. This specification carries
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