caveman-optimize
Skill1 starsChanged 4 months agoNo licenceView on GitHub
Turn Caveman's exact report-only repository observations into an operator-chosen optimization candidate with a paired baseline/candidate evaluation. Use when the user asks to inspect an optimization observation, evaluate a candidate change, or act on the current Caveman optimization report. Require a logged-in Caveman CLI connection and explicit approval; never infer money or actuation from a profile.
11 other projects use a version of this, 6 of them edited.
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- sudeepgupta90/my-ai-marketplaceedited, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- mjlueck-hash/cavemanword for word, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- MMACABRE/SKILLSedited, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- ZerroDevs/AgentsHubedited, first seen Nov 1, 2026
- pengawasmknan/claude-skillsedited, first seen Oct 11, 2026
- Gopyr/gopyr-skills-hubtheir own version, first seen Oct 11, 2026
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Projects with it also use ponytail.
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GoogleSkillponytail
Forces the laziest solution that actually works, simplest, shortest, most minimal. Channels a senior dev who has seen everything: question whether the task needs to exist at all (YAGNI), reach for the standard library before custom code, native platform features before dependencies, one line before fifty. Supports intensity levels: lite, full (default), ultra. Use on ANY coding task: writing, adding, refactoring, fixing, reviewing, or designing code, and choosing libraries or dependencies. Also use whenever the user says "ponytail", "be lazy", "lazy mode", "simplest solution", "minimal solution", "yagni", "do less", or "shortest path", or complains about over-engineering, bloat, boilerplate, or unnecessary dependencies. Do NOT use for non-coding requests (general knowledge, prose, translation, summaries, recipes).
Also in 3 projects that use this
Other versions11 projects use a version of this.
Word for word · 4
- Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up★ 3100% same
- xingtu1996/dsh-xingtu-skills★ 2100% same
- mjlueck-hash/caveman★ 1100% same
- xingtu1996/xingtu-skills★ 0100% same
Edited · 6
- JuliusBrussee/caveman★ 118k96% same
- ZerroDevs/AgentsHub★ 696% same
- nomdedev/agent-manager-template★ 296% same
- MMACABRE/SKILLS★ 196% same
- pengawasmknan/claude-skills★ 096% same
- sudeepgupta90/my-ai-marketplace★ 096% same
Wrote their own version · 1
- Gopyr/gopyr-skills-hub★ 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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- .agents/skills/caveman-learn/CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
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- agents-sdkSkill
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- caveman-commitSkill
- caveman-compressSkill
- caveman-discoverSkill
- caveman-evidence-reviewSkill
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- caveman-helpSkill
- caveman-learnSkill
- caveman-manageSkill
- caveman-optimizeSkill
- caveman-reviewSkill
- caveman-setupSkill
- cavemanSkill
- caveman-statsSkill
- investigate-firstSkill
- lean-buildSkill
- migrationSkill
- safe-refactorSkill
- surgical-patchSkill
- verify-and-stopSkill
- ask-mattSkill
- auditing-codebase-reliabilitySkill
- auditing-linear-capacitySkill
- auditing-ux-intuitionSkill
- brainstormingSkill
- canceling-work-runSkill
- cavecrewSkill
- caveman-manageSkill
- caveman-reviewSkill
- caveman-setupSkill
- caveman-statsSkill
- closing-deployment-pipelinesSkill
- closing-repo-workSkill
- cloudflare-email-serviceSkill
- cloudflare-one-migrationsSkill
- cloudflare-oneSkill
- cloudflareSkill
- codebase-designSkill
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- committing-semanticallySkill
- completing-branch-prSkill
- creating-codex-promptsSkill
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- creating-test-suitesSkill
- debugging-real-time-pipelinesSkill
- debugging-systematicallySkill
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- designing-frontendSkill
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- developing-with-testsSkill
- diagnosing-bugsSkill
- dispatching-parallel-agentsSkill
- domain-modelingSkill
- durable-objectsSkill
- executing-plansSkill
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The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
12 rules. 9 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 3 are very specific to this project.
9
Common
Most of the 6 edited versions we read keep these.
0
Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
3
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
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“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 6 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.
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