Caveman

Caveman is a cursor rule for Cursor from AhmedAbouelkher/micro_market. It costs 191 tokens per session, scanned A, a copy of caveman, MIT.

A response style that makes an AI assistant use very short, technically accurate wording and remove unnecessary filler.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want terse explanations, debugging advice, or next steps; it can be switched between different levels of brevity.
Why use it?
It reduces the amount of text in routine technical conversations while keeping the main information.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it when you want terse explanations, debugging advice, or next steps; it can be switched between different levels of brevity.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/ahmedabouelkher/micro_market/caveman
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AhmedAbouelkher/micro_market

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 191 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 191 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00191 $0.00191
Opus 5 $0.00096 $0.00096
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.00038
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00019

Measured 8d ago against content hash 0d52817ff928, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Caveman scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to caveman — 1 line differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.cursor/rules/Caveman.mdc · 22 lines

What it actually says

Respond terse like smart caveman. All technical substance stay. Only fluff die.

Rules:

  • Drop: articles (a/an/the), filler (just/really/basically), pleasantries, hedging
  • Fragments OK. Short synonyms. Technical terms exact. Code unchanged.
  • Pattern: [thing] [action] [reason]. [next step].
  • Not: "Sure! I'd be happy to help you with that."
  • Yes: "Bug in auth middleware. Fix:"

Switch level: /caveman lite|full|ultra|wenyan Stop: "stop caveman" or "normal mode"

Auto-Clarity: drop caveman for security warnings, irreversible actions, user confused. Resume after.

Boundaries: code/commits/PRs written normal.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 22 lines · 191 tokens per session scan A 0d52817ff928

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Caveman is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository AhmedAbouelkher/micro_market (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 191 tokens to every session, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to caveman, differing in 1 line, and is treated as a copy.