What's the right solution for making verification type tasks cacheable? My task doesn't produce any output as it just checks certain conditions being present in the build? How do I make it cacheable? Do I just make a token output item like a file I write "verification successful" to? Where do I put it then, does this make sense?

layout.buildDirectory.file("intermediates/***/***.txt")

To make it up-to-dateable and cacheable you just have to tell Gradle there it is valid that there is no output by using

outputs.upToDateWhen { true }

Haven't seen this anywhere, thank you 👍🏻

The least tasks without outputs are up-to-dateable or cacheable, most have at least some kind of report. 🙂

I am looking into using your provided solution but struggle to conceptualise this, if this task is always up-to-date once declared so, would this mean it would not be executed again on new inputs?

if this task is always up-to-date once declared so

Why should it be? You just say that the outputs are up-to-date. That does not mean that the inputs are ignored.

Makes sense, thank you