diff --git a/.gitea/actions/rust-cache/action.yml b/.gitea/actions/rust-cache/action.yml
index 80b4bc7..73771e4 100644
--- a/.gitea/actions/rust-cache/action.yml
+++ b/.gitea/actions/rust-cache/action.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-name: Rust Setup + Cache
-description: Install Rust toolchain and cache cargo/rustup dependencies for Gitea Actions
+name: Rust Setup + Sccache
+description: Install Rust and configure sccache for Rust builds in Gitea Actions
 author: eric
 
 inputs:
@@ -7,73 +7,120 @@ inputs:
     description: Rust toolchain to install (e.g., stable, 1.75.0, nightly)
     default: stable
     required: false
-  cache-prefix:
-    description: Prefix for cache keys.
-    default: rust
+  sccache:
+    description: Enable sccache and set RUSTC_WRAPPER.
+    default: "true"
     required: false
-  cache-version:
-    description: Cache format version. Bump this to avoid reusing stale or partial cache entries.
-    default: v3
+  sccache-version:
+    description: Mozilla sccache release tag to install.
+    default: v0.15.0
+    required: false
+  sccache-bucket:
+    description: S3 bucket for sccache. Leave empty to use local sccache storage.
+    default: ""
+    required: false
+  sccache-region:
+    description: S3 region. Use auto for S3-compatible services when an endpoint is provided.
+    default: auto
+    required: false
+  sccache-endpoint:
+    description: Optional S3-compatible endpoint URL, for example https://s3.example.com.
+    default: ""
+    required: false
+  sccache-s3-use-ssl:
+    description: Whether the S3 endpoint uses TLS.
+    default: "true"
+    required: false
+  sccache-s3-enable-virtual-host-style:
+    description: Enable virtual-host-style S3 addressing.
+    default: "false"
+    required: false
+  sccache-key-prefix:
+    description: Optional S3 key prefix. Defaults to repository/runner/toolchain scope.
+    default: ""
     required: false
 
 outputs:
-  cache-hit:
-    description: "Whether a cache entry was found"
-    value: ${{ steps.cache-restore.outputs.cache-hit }}
+  sccache-enabled:
+    description: Whether sccache was enabled.
+    value: ${{ steps.configure-sccache.outputs.enabled }}
 
 runs:
   using: composite
   steps:
-    - name: Compute cache key
-      id: cache-key
-      shell: bash
-      run: |
-        OS=$(printf '%s' '${{ runner.os }}' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
-        ARCH=$(printf '%s' '${{ runner.arch }}' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
-        {
-          printf 'toolchain=%s\n' '${{ inputs.toolchain }}'
-          find . \
-            \( -path './.git' -o -path './target' \) -prune -o \
-            \( -name Cargo.toml -o -name Cargo.lock -o -name rust-toolchain -o -name rust-toolchain.toml \) \
-            -type f -print0 \
-            | sort -z \
-            | xargs -0 sha256sum 2>/dev/null || true
-        } > /tmp/rust-cache-fingerprint
-        HASH=$(sha256sum /tmp/rust-cache-fingerprint | cut -d' ' -f1)
-        echo "hash=$HASH" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-        echo "key=${{ inputs.cache-prefix }}-${{ inputs.cache-version }}-$OS-$ARCH-${{ inputs.toolchain }}-$HASH" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-        echo "restore-prefix=${{ inputs.cache-prefix }}-${{ inputs.cache-version }}-$OS-$ARCH-${{ inputs.toolchain }}-" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-
-    - name: Configure cache upload
-      shell: bash
-      run: |
-        echo "CACHE_UPLOAD_CONCURRENCY=1" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-
-    - name: Restore Rust cache
-      id: cache-restore
-      env:
-        ACTIONS_CACHE_SERVICE_V2: "0"
-      uses: https://gitea.com/actions/cache@v3
-      with:
-        path: |
-          ~/.cargo/registry
-          ~/.cargo/git
-          ~/.rustup/toolchains
-          ~/.rustup/settings.toml
-          target
-        key: ${{ steps.cache-key.outputs.key }}
-        restore-keys: |
-          ${{ steps.cache-key.outputs.restore-prefix }}
-
-    - name: Show Rust cache status
-      shell: bash
-      run: |
-        echo "Rust cache key: ${{ steps.cache-key.outputs.key }}"
-        echo "Rust cache hit: ${{ steps.cache-restore.outputs.cache-hit }}"
-
     - name: Setup Rust
       shell: bash
       run: |
         curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs \
-          | sh -s -- -y --profile minimal --default-toolchain ${{ inputs.toolchain }}
-        echo "$HOME/.cargo/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
+          | sh -s -- -y --profile minimal --default-toolchain '${{ inputs.toolchain }}'
+        echo "$HOME/.cargo/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH"
+
+    - name: Install sccache
+      if: ${{ inputs.sccache == 'true' }}
+      shell: bash
+      run: |
+        set -euo pipefail
+        version='${{ inputs.sccache-version }}'
+        case "$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" in
+          Linux-x86_64) target=x86_64-unknown-linux-musl ;;
+          Linux-aarch64|Linux-arm64) target=aarch64-unknown-linux-musl ;;
+          Darwin-x86_64) target=x86_64-apple-darwin ;;
+          Darwin-arm64|Darwin-aarch64) target=aarch64-apple-darwin ;;
+          *)
+            echo "unsupported sccache platform: $(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" >&2
+            exit 1
+            ;;
+        esac
+        asset="sccache-${version}-${target}.tar.gz"
+        base_url="https://github.com/mozilla/sccache/releases/download/${version}"
+        tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
+        trap 'rm -rf "$tmp"' EXIT
+        curl -fsSLo "$tmp/$asset" "$base_url/$asset"
+        curl -fsSLo "$tmp/$asset.sha256" "$base_url/$asset.sha256"
+        expected="$(tr -d '[:space:]' < "$tmp/$asset.sha256")"
+        if command -v sha256sum >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+          actual="$(sha256sum "$tmp/$asset" | cut -d ' ' -f 1)"
+        else
+          actual="$(shasum -a 256 "$tmp/$asset" | cut -d ' ' -f 1)"
+        fi
+        test "$expected" = "$actual"
+        tar -xzf "$tmp/$asset" -C "$tmp"
+        install -m 755 "$(find "$tmp" -type f -name sccache | head -n 1)" "$HOME/.cargo/bin/sccache"
+        sccache --version
+
+    - name: Configure sccache
+      id: configure-sccache
+      if: ${{ inputs.sccache == 'true' }}
+      shell: bash
+      run: |
+        set -euo pipefail
+        echo "enabled=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+        echo "RUSTC_WRAPPER=sccache" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+        echo "SCCACHE_IGNORE_SERVER_IO_ERROR=1" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+        echo "SCCACHE_LOG=${SCCACHE_LOG:-warn}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+        if [ -n '${{ inputs.sccache-bucket }}' ]; then
+          repo="${GITHUB_REPOSITORY:-unknown/repository}"
+          runner_os="${RUNNER_OS:-$(uname -s)}"
+          runner_arch="${RUNNER_ARCH:-$(uname -m)}"
+          prefix='${{ inputs.sccache-key-prefix }}'
+          if [ -z "$prefix" ]; then
+            prefix="$repo/$runner_os-$runner_arch/${{ inputs.toolchain }}"
+          fi
+          echo "SCCACHE_BUCKET=${{ inputs.sccache-bucket }}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          echo "SCCACHE_REGION=${{ inputs.sccache-region }}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          echo "SCCACHE_S3_USE_SSL=${{ inputs.sccache-s3-use-ssl }}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          echo "SCCACHE_S3_KEY_PREFIX=$prefix" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          if [ -n '${{ inputs.sccache-endpoint }}' ]; then
+            echo "SCCACHE_ENDPOINT=${{ inputs.sccache-endpoint }}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          fi
+          if [ '${{ inputs.sccache-s3-enable-virtual-host-style }}' = 'true' ]; then
+            echo "SCCACHE_S3_ENABLE_VIRTUAL_HOST_STYLE=true" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          fi
+        fi
+
+    - name: Start sccache
+      if: ${{ inputs.sccache == 'true' }}
+      shell: bash
+      run: |
+        sccache --start-server
+        sccache --show-stats
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e13da9e..31cd9ad 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,43 +4,68 @@ Reusable Gitea Actions for Rust projects.
 
 ## actions/rust-cache
 
-Composite action that restores Rust build caches, installs a Rust toolchain, and saves updated cargo/rustup/target caches after the job.
+Composite action that installs Rust, installs a prebuilt Mozilla `sccache`
+binary, and configures `RUSTC_WRAPPER=sccache` for later Cargo steps.
 
-### Usage
+This action intentionally does not use Gitea `actions/cache` and does not cache
+`target/`. Rust build artifacts are cached through `sccache`; callers can use
+local sccache storage or an S3-compatible backend.
+
+### S3 usage
+
+Create one shared bucket for Rust compiler artifacts, then pass non-secret S3
+settings as inputs and credentials as normal workflow secrets.
 
 ```yaml
 jobs:
   build:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: https://gitea.com/actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-      - name: Setup Rust + Cache
+      - name: Setup Rust + sccache
         uses: https://git.ericxliu.me/eric/actions-rust/.gitea/actions/rust-cache@main
         with:
-          toolchain: stable      # optional, defaults to stable
-          cache-prefix: rust     # optional, defaults to rust
-          cache-version: v3      # optional, defaults to v3
+          toolchain: stable
+          sccache-bucket: sccache
+          sccache-region: auto
+          sccache-endpoint: https://s3.example.com
+          sccache-key-prefix: my-org/my-repo/linux-x64/stable
+        env:
+          AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.SCCACHE_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
+          AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.SCCACHE_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
 
-      - run: cargo build --release
       - run: cargo test
+      - run: sccache --show-stats
 ```
 
-### What it does
+### Local usage
 
-1. **Cache key** — Hashes root/workspace `Cargo.toml`, `Cargo.lock`, and `rust-toolchain*` files without relying on `hashFiles()`.
-2. **Cache restore/save** — Restores `~/.cargo/registry`, `~/.cargo/git`, `~/.rustup/toolchains`, and `target/` using Gitea's native `actions/cache`. The cache action saves updated paths in its post step after later build/test steps have populated them.
-3. **Rust install** — Runs `rustup` with the minimal profile to install or verify the requested toolchain.
-4. **PATH setup** — Appends `$HOME/.cargo/bin` to `$GITHUB_PATH` so cargo/rustc are available in subsequent steps.
+Omit `sccache-bucket` to use the runner-local sccache cache:
 
-The cache upload is serialized with `CACHE_UPLOAD_CONCURRENCY=1` because Gitea
-act_runner's cache server stores chunk metadata in BoltDB and can return 500s
-under large parallel uploads.
-
-### Cache key format
-
-```
-{cache-prefix}-{cache-version}-{runner.os}-{runner.arch}-{toolchain}-{hash(manifests/toolchain files)}
+```yaml
+- name: Setup Rust + local sccache
+  uses: https://git.ericxliu.me/eric/actions-rust/.gitea/actions/rust-cache@main
+  with:
+    toolchain: stable
 ```
 
-Warm builds run in ~40–60s vs ~3min for a cold build.
+### Inputs
+
+- `toolchain`: Rust toolchain to install. Defaults to `stable`.
+- `sccache`: Set to `"false"` to install Rust without configuring sccache.
+- `sccache-version`: Mozilla sccache release tag. Defaults to `v0.15.0`.
+- `sccache-bucket`: S3 bucket name. Empty means local sccache storage.
+- `sccache-region`: S3 region. For S3-compatible endpoints, `auto` is usually right.
+- `sccache-endpoint`: Optional S3-compatible endpoint URL.
+- `sccache-s3-use-ssl`: Whether the endpoint uses TLS. Defaults to `"true"`.
+- `sccache-s3-enable-virtual-host-style`: Set to `"true"` only for endpoints that require virtual-host-style addressing.
+- `sccache-key-prefix`: Optional cache key prefix. Defaults to repository, runner, and toolchain scope.
+
+### Notes
+
+- Do not pass secret values as action inputs. Pass standard AWS environment
+  variables from workflow secrets.
+- `SCCACHE_IGNORE_SERVER_IO_ERROR=1` is set so a cache outage falls back to
+  local compilation instead of failing the build.
+- Add `sccache --show-stats` after build/test steps to inspect cache hit rates.