Caveman caveman-help

Name: caveman-help
Author: JuliusBrussee

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/caveman-help" ~/.claude/skills/juliusbrussee-caveman-caveman-help && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/caveman-help/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

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

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