caveman-help

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Quick-reference card for all caveman modes, skills, and commands. One-shot display, not a persistent mode. Trigger: /caveman-help, "caveman help", "what caveman commands", "how do I use caveman".

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Sourcejuliusbrussee/caveman

Added on2026-04-12

NPX Install

npx skill4agent add juliusbrussee/caveman caveman-help

SKILL.md Content

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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

.

Configure Default Mode

Default mode =

full

. Change it:

Environment variable (highest priority):

bash

export CAVEMAN_DEFAULT_MODE=ultra

Config file (

~/.config/caveman/config.json

):

json

{ "defaultMode": "lite" }

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