Caveman Help Agent Skill

> Quick-reference card for all caveman modes, skills, and commands. "caveman help", "what caveman commands", "how do I use caveman".

819 tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

205

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/dbt-labs/docs.getdbt.com --skill caveman-help

What comes with it

976 bytes besides the instruction

README.md

The instruction itself

7 sections, as written by the author

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):

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.

Full docs: https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman

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