diff --git a/crates/engine/src/lib.rs b/crates/engine/src/lib.rs
index 091348a6b..c3eeaa277 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/lib.rs
@@ -347,6 +347,15 @@ pub(crate) fn adding_fonts() -> std::sync::MutexGuard<'static, ()> {
     FONTS.lock().unwrap_or_else(std::sync::PoisonError::into_inner)
 }
 
+/// Whether the tests that run every command with `{}` run command `id`. `plugin.clearCache` is
+/// left out: without an id it empties the cache of every plug-in installed in the process, which
+/// includes the caches that the plug-in storage tests check while they run.
+/// `tests/plugin_clear_cache.rs` runs it with `{}` in a test binary of its own.
+#[cfg(test)]
+pub(crate) fn runs_with_empty_params(id: &str) -> bool {
+    id != "plugin.clearCache"
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 use tests::{
     adjust as tests_adjust, clip as tests_clip, colormgmt as tests_colormgmt, expand as tests_expand, large_edits as tests_large_edits,
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/tests.rs b/crates/engine/src/tests.rs
index ca0501c8f..2cf0031a3 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/tests.rs
@@ -3160,7 +3160,7 @@ fn every_command_survives_empty_params() {
     // The view toggles among them flip the process-wide proof view.
     let _proof_view = crate::tests_colormgmt::GLOBAL.lock().unwrap_or_else(|e| e.into_inner());
     for sel in [false, true] {
-        for c in command_specs() {
+        for c in command_specs().iter().filter(|c| crate::runs_with_empty_params(c.id)) {
             let mut s = session();
             let a = rect(&mut s, 0.0, 0.0, 10.0, 10.0);
             rect(&mut s, 20.0, 0.0, 10.0, 10.0);
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/tests/dynamic_symbols.rs b/crates/engine/src/tests/dynamic_symbols.rs
index f4ae97bb1..278d979ef 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/tests/dynamic_symbols.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/tests/dynamic_symbols.rs
@@ -1309,7 +1309,7 @@ fn a_lent_selection_tool_moves_the_instance_of_a_picked_object() {
 #[test]
 fn read_only_commands_read_the_instance_of_a_picked_object() {
     let mut failures = Vec::new();
-    for spec in crate::cmd::command_specs().iter().filter(|c| !c.journal) {
+    for spec in crate::cmd::command_specs().iter().filter(|c| !c.journal && crate::runs_with_empty_params(c.id)) {
         let mut s = session();
         let inst = pair(&mut s, "dynamic");
         s.execute("symbol.instance.selectPart", &json!({"id": inst.0, "path": [1]})).unwrap();
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/tests/plugins.rs b/crates/engine/src/tests/plugins.rs
index a4be6e554..dc52243e3 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/tests/plugins.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/tests/plugins.rs
@@ -3242,6 +3242,40 @@ fn removing_an_id_that_is_not_installed_deletes_its_storage() {
     assert!(s.execute("plugin.remove", &json!({"id": id})).is_err(), "nothing left to remove");
 }
 
+/// The `plugin.*` commands that the tests running every command with `{}` run
+/// ([`crate::runs_with_empty_params`]) leave the cache of an installed plug-in as it is, so
+/// those tests can run beside the ones here that check a cache. Each command runs with `{}` in a
+/// document with two rectangles, one or both selected, as `every_command_survives_empty_params`
+/// runs it.
+#[test]
+fn plugin_commands_run_with_empty_params_keep_other_plugins_caches() {
+    let folder = crate::tests_links::Folder::new("plugin-storage-empty-params");
+    let id = "test.engine.storageemptyparams";
+    let mut s = session();
+    s.attach_plugin_store(folder.0.clone());
+    install_storing(&mut s, id, WRITES);
+    run(&mut s, "plugin.run", json!({"id": id, "ids": []}));
+    assert_eq!(run(&mut s, "plugin.info", json!({"id": id}))["cacheBytes"], json!(3));
+    let mut ran = vec![];
+    for all in [false, true] {
+        for c in crate::cmd::command_specs().iter().filter(|c| c.id.starts_with("plugin.") && crate::runs_with_empty_params(c.id)) {
+            let mut other = session();
+            let a = rect(&mut other, 10.0, "#ff0000");
+            rect(&mut other, 40.0, "#0000ff");
+            if all {
+                run(&mut other, "select.all", json!({}));
+            } else {
+                run(&mut other, "select.set", json!({"ids": [a.0]}));
+            }
+            let _ = other.execute(c.id, &json!({}));
+            ran.push(c.id);
+            assert_eq!(run(&mut s, "plugin.info", json!({"id": id}))["cacheBytes"], json!(3), "after {}", c.id);
+        }
+    }
+    assert!(ran.contains(&"plugin.list"), "{ran:?}");
+    run(&mut s, "plugin.remove", json!({"id": id}));
+}
+
 /// The settings file and the cache are checked: a file that doesn't read is moved aside and the
 /// settings start empty; a write past a cap fails and changes nothing; cache entries whose names
 /// differ only in case are two files; a removed plug-in's storage takes no more writes.