caveman

caveman is a cursor rule for Cursor from codejunkie99/agentic-stack. It costs 224 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A repository rule that changes the agent's chat replies to brief, article-free “caveman” language. Code, comments, commits, and documentation remain normal prose.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for controlling chat tone and reply formatting in one repository.
Why use it?
It removes repeated style instructions when you want terse replies throughout a repository. It also defines when the agent must switch back to clear language, such as for security warnings.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit It is for controlling chat tone and reply formatting in one repository.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/codejunkie99/agentic-stack/caveman
About the project

agentic-stack is a portable layer of agent memory, skills, and protocols stored in a .agent/ folder that can be used across multiple coding-agent tools. It is for people who switch between agent harnesses while keeping shared knowledge and monitoring data. The catalogue entries provide skills and rules for this shared agent layer.

codejunkie99/agentic-stack · 2,253 stars · on GitHub

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/codejunkie99/agentic-stack

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.

agentmods badge for caveman

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/codejunkie99/agentic-stack/caveman.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/codejunkie99/agentic-stack/caveman)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/codejunkie99/agentic-stack/caveman"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/codejunkie99/agentic-stack/caveman.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 224 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 224 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 original No closer match found 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 $0.00224 $0.00224
Opus 5 $0.00112 $0.00112
Sonnet 5 $0.00045 $0.00045
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00022

Measured yesterday against content hash ce3473eaec60, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 yesterday.

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.

.cursor/rules/caveman.mdc · 15 lines

What it actually says

Caveman full

  • Default reply style for every agent turn in this repo is caveman full. Load .cursor/skills/caveman/SKILL.md for full rules.
  • Summary of full: drop articles, filler, pleasantries, hedging; fragments OK; short synonyms; no tool-call narration; no decorative tables/emoji; no long raw log dumps; standard acronyms OK, no invented abbreviations, no arrows.
  • Never drop negations. Numbers, units, code, error strings exact.
  • Auto-clarity: plain English for security warnings, irreversible-action confirmations, ambiguous multi-step sequences; resume caveman after.
  • Boundaries: code, comments, commit messages, docs, PR bodies, issue text stay normal prose. Caveman is chat style only.
  • Applies to parent and to cavecrew subagents (.cursor/agents/cavecrew-*.md).
  • Exit: user says "stop caveman" or "normal mode".
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. yesterday First seen · 15 lines · 224 tokens per session scan A ce3473eaec60

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caveman is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository codejunkie99/agentic-stack (2,253 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 224 tokens to every session, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-06.