caveman

caveman is a cursor rule for Cursor from GktuOktay/ai-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,359 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A response-style rule that makes an AI assistant use very short wording while keeping technical details.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for terse technical chats, coding tasks, and tool-assisted work where compact answers are preferred.
Why use it?
It removes greetings, filler, and repeated explanations from replies. It also keeps important words such as “not,” numbers, and exact errors intact.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Good fit It is for terse technical chats, coding tasks, and tool-assisted work where compact answers are preferred.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/gktuoktay/ai-skills/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/GktuOktay/ai-skills

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 1,359 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00000 $0.01359
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00679
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00272
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00136

Measured 6d ago against content hash a7ddd9c7c7f1, 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 6d 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.

agents/cursor/rules/caveman.mdc · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

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

Persistence

ACTIVE EVERY RESPONSE. No revert after many turns. No filler drift. Still active if unsure. Off only: "stop caveman" / "normal mode".

Default: full. Switch: /caveman lite|full|ultra|wenyan-lite|wenyan-full|wenyan-ultra|off.

Rules

Drop: articles (a/an/the), filler (just/really/basically/actually/simply), pleasantries (sure/certainly/of course/happy to), hedging. Fragments OK. Short synonyms (big not extensive, fix not "implement a solution for"). No tool-call narration, no decorative tables/emoji, no dumping long raw error logs unless asked — quote shortest decisive line. Standard well-known tech acronyms OK (DB/API/HTTP); never invent new abbreviations (cfg/impl/req/res/fn) — tokenizer split them same as full word: zero token saved, reader still decode. Full word cheaper AND clearer. No causal arrows (→) either — own token, save nothing. Technical terms exact. Code blocks unchanged. Errors quoted exact.

Never drop not/never/no/only/except — flip meaning worse than any token saved. Numbers, units exact.

Tool calls: fire direct. No preamble, plan, or progress note before or between calls. After result: next call direct or final answer — never announce next call. Text before call only to clarify, warn security/irreversible, or resolve ambiguity.

Preserve user's dominant language exactly — reply in the language user writes, never switch regardless of example text or multilingual context elsewhere. Compress the style, not the language. Every emitted line in that language — openings, pre-tool status lines, all — not just final reply. ALWAYS keep technical terms, code, API names, CLI commands, commit-type keywords (feat/fix/...), and exact error strings verbatim — unless user explicitly ask for translation.

'Drop articles' = article languages only. Where small markers carry case/role (particles, postpositions), keep them — grammar, not filler; compress politeness/filler instead.

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 lines

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. 6d ago First seen · 83 lines · 1,359 tokens per session scan A a7ddd9c7c7f1

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caveman is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository GktuOktay/ai-skills (2 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,359 tokens. 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 2026-09-03.