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juliusbrussee/caveman

caveman-help

Quick-reference card for caveman modes, skills and commands.

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Installation

$ npx skills add juliusbrussee/caveman --skill caveman-help
View on skills.sh ↗ GitHub repository ↗

Summary

  • Quick-reference card for caveman modes, skills, and commands with one-shot display.
  • Six modes available: Lite, Full (default), Ultra, Wenyan-Lite, Wenyan-Full, and Wenyan-Ultra, each progressively compressing output from light article-dropping to extreme classical Chinese terseness Four skills included: caveman-commit for terse conventional commits, caveman-review for one-line PR feedback, caveman-compress for markdown token reduction, and caveman-help for this reference Modes persist until changed or session end; deactivate with "stop caveman" or "normal mode" Default mode configurable via environment variable or config file at ~/.config/caveman/config.json

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Analyzed May 10, 2026

The skill is a static documentation resource providing a help card for caveman commands and modes. It contains no executable code, configuration changes, or security risks. It references the author's GitHub repository for further documentation.

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More details

Agent compatibility

Declared targets from SKILL.md / docs. Unmarked agents are not listed — the skill may still install via the CLI.

Claude Code Not declared
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Windsurf Not declared
Gemini CLI Not declared
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Repository health

Stars 104.3K
License LICENSE
Default branch main
Open issues 62
Status Active

Package contents

Files included with this skill beyond the listing page.

  • skill md SKILL.md 2,205 B
  • docs README.md 976 B
  • docs SUMMARY.md 122 B

History

  1. First seen on skills.sh
  2. First recorded snapshot · 333,300 installs

SKILL.md

Caveman Help

Display this reference card when invoked. One-shot — do NOT change mode, write flag files, or persist anything. Output in caveman style.

Modes

Mode Trigger What change
Lite /caveman lite Drop filler. Keep sentence structure.
Full /caveman Drop articles, filler, pleasantries, hedging. Fragments OK. Default.
Ultra /caveman ultra Extreme compression. Bare fragments. Tables over prose.
Wenyan-Lite /caveman wenyan-lite Classical Chinese style, light compression.
Wenyan-Full /caveman wenyan Full 文言文. Maximum classical terseness.
Wenyan-Ultra /caveman wenyan-ultra Extreme. Ancient scholar on a budget.

Mode stick until changed or session end.

Skills

Skill Trigger What it do
caveman-commit /caveman-commit Terse commit messages. Conventional Commits. ≤50 char subject.
caveman-review /caveman-review One-line PR comments: L42: bug: user null. Add guard.
caveman-compress /caveman-compress <file> Compress .md files to caveman prose. Saves ~46% input tokens.
caveman-help /caveman-help This card.

Deactivate

Say "stop caveman" or "normal mode". Resume anytime with /caveman.

Language

Keep user's language by default. User write Portuguese → reply Portuguese caveman. Compress the style, not the language. Technical terms, code, commands, commit types, and exact error strings stay verbatim unless user ask for translation.

Configure Default Mode

Default mode = full. Change it:

Environment variable (highest priority):

export CAVEMAN_DEFAULT_MODE=ultra

Config file (~/.config/caveman/config.json):

{ "defaultMode": "lite" }

Set "off" to disable auto-activation on session start. User can still activate manually with /caveman.

Resolution: env var > config file > full.

More

Full docs: https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman