Caveman Help

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Cut your AI's token usage by about 65% by having it answer in short, simple language. This skill makes your agent rewrite its responses the caveman way: fewer words, same point. Shorter replies mean every conversation uses fewer tokens.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

No other account needed.

Add the skill, then ask your agent something and it will reply in short, simple language that uses fewer tokens. The source is at github.com/juliusbrussee/caveman.

Then ask your AI: use the Caveman Help skill

What your AI can do with it

Rewrite responses in short, simple language
Cut token usage by about 65%
Answer with fewer words on every turn
Trim extra text out of replies

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by juliusbrussee/caveman in skills/caveman-help/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

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.