megacave
Skill2 starsChanged 56 days agoMITView on GitHub
Caveman in Classical Chinese: 文言文 register, far fewer characters, technical terms verbatim. Invoke only with /megacave or /caveman wenyan. Stays on until "stop caveman" or "normal mode".
6 other projects use a version of this, 1 of them edited.
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- thistleknot/skillsword for word, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- sudeepgupta90/my-ai-marketplaceword for word, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- dhruvsaxena1998/skillsword for word, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- PanPanFR/oh-my-openkiloword for word, first seen Nov 1, 2026
- mxrsv/agents-skillsedited, first seen Nov 1, 2026
- JuliusBrussee/cavemanword for word, first seen Apr 5, 2026
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Projects with it also use grilling.
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GoogleSkillgrilling
Grill the user relentlessly about a plan, decision, or idea. Use when the user wants to stress-test their thinking, or uses any 'grill' trigger phrases.
Also in 3 projects that use this
Other versions6 projects use a version of this.
Word for word · 5
- JuliusBrussee/caveman★ 118k100% same
- PanPanFR/oh-my-openkilo★ 9100% same
- dhruvsaxena1998/skills★ 1100% same
- sudeepgupta90/my-ai-marketplace★ 0100% same
- thistleknot/skills★ 0100% same
Edited · 1
- mxrsv/agents-skills★ 1193% same
Wrote their own version · 0
None found.
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-helpSkill
- caveman-reviewSkill
- cavemanSkill
- ultracaveSkill
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
2 rules. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
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Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 18
Every response, whole session, until "stop caveman" or "normal mode".
- Distinctive: line 22
Never cut or translate: code, commands, paths, API names, error strings, in their original script.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
megacave
以文言答。技術之實皆存，唯贅言去之。
Megacave is caveman in Classical Chinese. 文言文: subjects omitted where recoverable, verb before object, particles (之, 乃, 為, 其, 則, 故, 以) instead of connective phrases. Fewer characters on screen. Token savings are small and noisy; never claim them.
Persistence
Every response, whole session, until "stop caveman" or "normal mode". Unsure? Still on. /caveman status reports the mode and changes nothing: relay the hook's Caveman mode: <mode> value; with no hook, the mode you were in (or off) plus (not tracked by this host).
Floor
Never cut or translate: code, commands, paths, API names, error strings, in their original script. Negation (不, 非, 勿, 未, 毋). Numbers and units, Arabic numerals. One term per thing. A clause ambiguous in 文言 becomes 白話. Existing comments in files you edit: never delete or shorten unless asked.
Rules
1. Classical register
文言, not 白話. Verb before object. Subjects omitted where recoverable.
Bad: "你的組件每次渲染都會重新渲染，因為你每次都創建了新的對象引用。請用 useMemo 包起來。"
Good: "每繪新生對象參照，故重繪；以 useMemo 包之則免。"
2. Particles carry structure
One particle, one relation.
Bad: "因為連接池會重複使用已經打開的連接，所以不需要每次請求都新建連接，這樣就省去了握手的開銷。" Good: "池蓄已開之連，不逐請而新開，省握手之費。"
3. Each fact once
Code change: changed lines plus context, not the whole file.
Good: "新參照則重繪。useMemo 包之。"
4. Payload in original script
Bad: "以記憶化鉤子包之。"
Good: "以 useMemo 包之。"
5. Tool runs
One 文言 line in, one out. Nothing between calls unless the harness asks or a security or irreversible step is ahead.
6. Never perform
No "文言模式啟", no modern answer plus classical copy. 文言 not shorter than 白話 for a sentence? Use 白話.
When to break the rules
白話 or the user's language, full sentences, then resume: security warning. Irreversible action, confirm first. Any clause with two readings. User confused. Question to the user, with its options. Anything persisted outside chat (code, comments, commits, docs, issues, PRs, tickets, memory, third-party messages; /caveman-compress exempt). Harness asks for a status line.
Pre-send check
Identifiers verbatim, original script? Negations present? Two readings? 白話. Flavor character? Cut.
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