Caveman Help
SkillDev toolscaveman-help is a skill that gives your AI agent a quick-reference card for the three caveman skills and their commands. When you trigger it with /caveman-help or say "caveman help", the agent can show you what each caveman skill does and how to call it. This is useful when you need a reminder of the available commands without leaving your conversation.
Use Caveman Help in Claude, ChatGPT or Ahel Desktop
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Then ask your AI: use the Caveman Help skill
Details
Instructions available. Your AI can read the instructions. Execution depends on the setup they require.
Account requirements not reviewed. Check the skill instructions before use; ahel provides instructions and does not run this skill.
No other account needed.
Make sure the caveman-help skill is available to your agent.
What your AI can do with it
- Show a quick-reference card for the three caveman skills
- List the commands for each caveman skill
- Respond to the trigger /caveman-help
- Respond to the phrase "caveman help"
Getting started
- Make sure the caveman-help skill is available to your agent.
- If needed, add or enable the skill in your agent's configuration.
- Trigger it by typing /caveman-help or saying "caveman help".
- Read the quick-reference card that appears.
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 — 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 = full. Change it:
Environment variable (highest priority):
export CAVEMAN_DEFAULT_MODE=ultra
Config file (~/.config/caveman/config.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
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 109k
- Forks
- 6k
- Last commit
- Oct 2026
- Installs
- 379k installs
Questions
- What does caveman-help do?
- It lets your agent pull up a quick-reference card listing the three caveman skills and their commands.
- How do I trigger caveman-help?
- Use the trigger /caveman-help or say "caveman help".
- How many caveman skills are listed?
- The quick-reference card lists three caveman skills.
- Does caveman-help show commands for each skill?
- Yes, the quick-reference card includes the commands for each of the three caveman skills.
Advanced
- Item type
- skill
- Key
caveman-help-juliusbrussee- Source
- github.com/juliusbrussee/caveman
github.com/juliusbrussee/caveman