caveman-help
Quick-reference card for caveman modes, skills and commands. Trigger: /caveman-help or "caveman help".
By juliusbrussee · 340,097 installs
npx skills add juliusbrussee/caveman --skill caveman-help
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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 .
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.
Configure Default Mode
Default mode = full . Change it:
Environment variable (highest priority):
Config file ( ~/.config/caveman/config.json ):
Set "off" to disable auto activation on session start. User can still activate manually with /caveman .
Resolution: env var config file full .
More
Full docs: https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman