caveman-help
Skill1 starsChanged 56 days agoMITView on GitHub
Quick-reference card for caveman modes, skills and commands. Trigger: /caveman-help or "caveman help".
50 other projects use a version of this, 48 of them edited.
Adopted by
Most recently taken up by
- sudeepgupta90/my-ai-marketplaceedited, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- mjlueck-hash/cavemanedited, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- dhruvsaxena1998/skillsedited, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- MMACABRE/SKILLSedited, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- tardigrde/obsidian-agentic-chatedited, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- hongphuc5497/skillsedited, first seen Nov 1, 2026
Used with
Projects with it also use caveman-stats, caveman-discover and 7 more.
Other files people use alongside this one.
Files found in the same public projects as a version of this one, more often than they turn up anywhere else. Each project counts once, large collections count for less, and this file's own repository is left out.
JuliusBrusseeSkillcaveman-stats
Show recorded output and cache-read token usage and mode attribution for the current Claude Code session, or locate the host's native usage report. Trigger: /caveman-stats.
Also in 26 projects that use this
- JuliusBrusseeSkill
caveman-discover
Find and label every LLM workflow in the repository so Caveman Cloud groups spend by workflow instead of one bucket. Use for "discover workflows" or breaking LLM spend down by workflow.
Also in 7 projects that use this
- +7 more from JuliusBrussee
Other versions50 projects use a version of this.
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Edited · 48
- JuliusBrussee/caveman★ 118k24% same
- dbt-labs/docs.getdbt.com★ 22055% same
- goern/forgejo-mcp★ 15258% same
- kubestellar/console★ 15155% same
- rawsun007/claude-notch★ 6655% same
- Namma-Flutter/namma_wallet★ 5955% same
- nitingupta220/riperflow★ 1949% same
- chinkan/RustFox★ 1154% same
- CashewTeam/Con11-AI-Skills★ 855% same
- tardigrde/obsidian-agentic-chat★ 855% same
38 more not listed
Wrote their own version · 2
- Hayatelin/caveman-zh-CN★ 2same name
- Hayatelin/caveman-zh-TW★ 0same name
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
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- The first 60 shown.
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
1 rule. 1 is common, 0 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
1
Common
Most of the 47 edited versions we read keep these.
0
Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
0
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Common: line 40
Keep user's language by default.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 47 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
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. |
| Wenyan-Lite | /caveman wenyan-lite | Classical Chinese style, light compression. |
| Wenyan-Full | /caveman wenyan-full | 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-explore | /caveman-explore | Read-only repo explorer. Forked haiku subagent return path:line citations only. |
| cavecrew | /cavecrew | When to delegate to compressed subagent presets: investigator, builder, reviewer. |
| caveman-compress | /caveman-compress <file> | Compress Markdown, text, Typst and TeX 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.
Default Mode
Upstream plugin's env-var and config-file auto-activation not vendored here; set level per session with /caveman <level>.
More
Full docs: https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman
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