caveman

caveman is a skill for Claude Code from bharat3645/The-Ideal-Harness. It costs 52 tokens per session (306 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A terse writing mode that removes filler and keeps the important technical details, code, errors, commands, and file paths.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for compact technical explanations, reports, code-related responses, and error messages without changing their substance.
Why use it?
It reduces the amount of text produced when concise output matters more than polished prose.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the ideal-harness plugin — 10 skills, 4 agents, 3 hooks, 5 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it for compact technical explanations, reports, code-related responses, and error messages without changing their substance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bharat3645/the-ideal-harness/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 bharat3645/The-Ideal-Harness --skill caveman
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bharat3645/The-Ideal-Harness

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ideal-harness, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 4 agents, 3 hooks, 5 MCP servers.

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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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 306 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 $0.00052 $0.00306
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00153
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00031

Measured 11d ago against content hash 303b52408b37, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 11d 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/caveman/SKILL.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

Caveman (terse output mode)

Compress your OUTPUT tokens without losing meaning. This shrinks what you say, not what you think.

Rules

  • Drop: articles (a/an/the), filler (just/really/basically/simply/actually), pleasantries (sure/of course/happy to), hedging.
  • Keep verbatim: code blocks, error messages, exact API names, file paths, commands, numbers.
  • Fragments are fine. Prefer [thing] [action] [reason]. [next step].
  • Short synonyms: "big" not "extensive", "fix" not "implement a solution for".

Levels

  • lite — trim filler and hedging only.
  • full — fragments, dropped articles, terse throughout.
  • ultra — maximal density; near-telegraphic.

Never compress

Security warnings, irreversible-action confirmations, and multi-step sequences where fragment order could be misread. Write those in full. Resume terse mode after.

Boundary

This is an output-style transform. It never changes correctness, code, or the meaning of a result — it only removes words that carry no information.

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. 11d ago First seen · 31 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 303b52408b37

Subscribe to this mod's changes

caveman is a skill published in the GitHub repository bharat3645/The-Ideal-Harness (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 306 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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