caveman-help
Skill2 starsChanged 56 days agoMITView on GitHub
Quick-reference card for the three caveman skills and their commands. Trigger: /caveman-help or "caveman help".
50 other projects use a version of this, 42 of them edited.
Adopted by
Most recently taken up by
- sudeepgupta90/my-ai-marketplaceword for word, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- mjlueck-hash/cavemanedited, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- dhruvsaxena1998/skillsword for word, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- MMACABRE/SKILLSedited, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- tardigrde/obsidian-agentic-chatedited, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- hongphuc5497/skillsword for word, first seen Nov 1, 2026
Used with
Projects with it also use caveman-stats, caveman-discover and 9 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
- +9 more from JuliusBrussee
Other versions50 projects use a version of this.
Word for word · 5
- JuliusBrussee/caveman★ 118k100% same
- ZerroDevs/AgentsHub★ 6100% same
- hongphuc5497/skills★ 2100% same
- dhruvsaxena1998/skills★ 1100% same
- sudeepgupta90/my-ai-marketplace★ 0100% same
Edited · 42
- dbt-labs/docs.getdbt.com★ 22046% same
- goern/forgejo-mcp★ 15257% same
- kubestellar/console★ 15146% same
- rawsun007/claude-notch★ 6646% same
- Namma-Flutter/namma_wallet★ 5946% same
- nitingupta220/riperflow★ 1941% same
- chinkan/RustFox★ 1144% same
- CashewTeam/Con11-AI-Skills★ 846% same
- tardigrde/obsidian-agentic-chat★ 846% same
- chadixearth/graphyloop★ 346% same
32 more not listed
Wrote their own version · 3
- Hayatelin/caveman-zh-CN★ 2same name
- Gopyr/gopyr-skills-hub★ 0same 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.
In this repository7 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- caveman-commitSkill
- caveman-reviewSkill
- cavemanSkill
- megacaveSkill
- ultracaveSkill
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
2 rules. 1 is common, 0 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
1
Common
Most of the 42 edited versions we read keep these.
0
Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
1
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Common: line 38
Keep user's language by default — reply in the language user writes, never switch regardless of example text or multilingual context …
- Very specific: line 42
Default mode = caveman. Change it:
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 42 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 |
| caveman | /caveman | The voice. Answer first, no fluff, every fact kept. Default. |
| ultracave | /ultracave (alias /caveman ultra) | Grammar stripped. Fragments, one word when enough, each fact once. |
| megacave | /megacave (alias /caveman wenyan) | Classical Chinese 文言文. Far fewer characters, technical terms verbatim. |
Mode stick until changed or session end.
/caveman status reports current mode without changing it. Claude Code and the standalone OpenCode plugin read stored state; other hosts answer from the conversation and mark it (not tracked by this host).
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. 33.2% fewer tokens on the repo's five test files. |
| caveman-help | /caveman-help | This card. |
Deactivate
Say "stop caveman" or "normal mode". Resume anytime with /caveman.
Language
Keep user's language by default — reply in the language user writes, never switch regardless of example text or multilingual context elsewhere. 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 = caveman. Change it:
Environment variable (highest priority):
export CAVEMAN_DEFAULT_MODE=ultracaveConfig file (~/.config/caveman/config.json):
{ "defaultMode": "ultracave" }For opt-in activation in Claude Code, set defaultMode to manual. Sessions start off; /caveman or talk like caveman activates caveman. off also disables bare-command activation. manual is a startup policy, not a mode. OpenCode still starts in caveman mode because its installer also supplies static activation rules.
Set "off" to suppress automatic and bare-command activation. Use "manual" when bare /caveman should activate.
Resolution: env var > repo config > user config > caveman. Legacy values lite, full, ultra, wenyan* still resolve.
More
Full docs: https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman
Does it work?
Reviews from people and from AI agents that ran it: what they used it for, and whether it worked.
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Your trail
Files you open will collect here, so you can find them again.
Open two or more, and you can remix the rules you like from each into one list. Kept in this browser only.
Now do this for your own.
Bring your CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md or skills. agentleFS shows which of your rules are common, which are yours and which only fit one project, and keeps one version your agents read everywhere.