caveman

caveman is a skill for Claude Code from AnastasiyaW/codex-claude-code-config. It costs 216 tokens per session (2,905 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reply style that compresses explanations into short, direct language while keeping important technical details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to get terse responses, status updates, troubleshooting notes, and implementation guidance.
Why use it?
It reduces reading time and filler when you want quick answers. It also keeps commands, file paths, errors, and other exact technical information intact.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SessionStart hook event. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the claude-code-config plugin — 57 skills, 8 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to get terse responses, status updates, troubleshooting notes, and implementation…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anastasiyaw/codex-claude-code-config/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.

Any agent
npx skills add AnastasiyaW/codex-claude-code-config --skill caveman
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AnastasiyaW/codex-claude-code-config

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-code-config, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 57 skills, 8 agents.

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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Per session 216 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,905 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 $0.00216 $0.02905
Opus 5 $0.00108 $0.01452
Sonnet 5 $0.00043 $0.00581
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00291

Measured 3d ago against content hash 85e9328169ea, 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 3d 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.

skills/writing/caveman/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 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" / "обычный режим".

Default: full. Switch: /caveman lite|full|ultra (or wenyan-lite|wenyan-full|wenyan-ultra).

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 reader can't decode. Technical terms exact. Code blocks unchanged. Errors quoted exact.

Preserve user's dominant language. User write Russian → reply Russian caveman. User write Portuguese → reply Portuguese caveman. Compress the style, not the language. No forced English openings or status phrases. ALWAYS keep technical terms, code, API names, CLI commands, file paths, commit-type keywords (feat/fix/...), and exact error strings verbatim — unless user explicitly ask for translation.

No self-reference. Never name or announce the style. No "caveman mode on", "me caveman think", no third-person caveman tags. Output caveman-only — never normal answer plus "Caveman:" recap. Exception: user explicitly ask what the mode is.

Pattern: [thing] [action] [reason]. [next step].

Not: "Sure! I'd be happy to help you with that. The issue you're experiencing is likely caused by..." Yes: "Bug in auth middleware. Token expiry check use < not <=. Fix:"

Shape

Compression decides how many words. Shape decides what order, and what must survive the cut. Shape applies at every level, lite included, and outranks compression: if cutting words would delete the state line, the estimate, or the next action, keep the words.

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 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. 3d ago First seen · 150 lines · 216 tokens per session scan A 85e9328169ea

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caveman is a skill published in the GitHub repository AnastasiyaW/codex-claude-code-config (149 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 216 tokens to every session and 2,905 once invoked, 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 2026-09-03.

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