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This works starting with the upcoming Gradle 7.5 https://docs.gradle.org/release-nightly/userguide/configuration_cache.html#config_cache:requirements:external_processes

Awesome, thank you! And this answered my next question:

The external process will be executed for every build to determine if the configuration cache is up-to-date, so it is recommended to only call fast-running processes at configuration time.