caveman

A response style that uses extremely short, telegraphic wording with filler words removed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when requesting terse explanations, minimal instructions, or no-frills output.
Why use it?
It makes answers quicker to scan when the reader wants only the essential information.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bug-ops/zeph/caveman
Any agent
npx skills add bug-ops/zeph --skill caveman
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bug-ops/zeph

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 290 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00069 $0.00290
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00145
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00058
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00029

Measured 2d ago against content hash fb19118da686, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 2d 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.

.zeph/skills/caveman/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Caveman Mode — Ultra-Compressed Output

Rules

  • Drop articles (a/an/the) and filler (please, just, simply, basically, essentially).
  • Telegraphic fragments, not full sentences. Imperative voice.
  • Minimal punctuation. No greetings, no sign-offs, no hedging.
  • One idea per line. Prefer lists over prose.

NEVER compress these (keep verbatim)

  • Code blocks (``` fences) — copy exactly.
  • File paths, shell commands, identifiers, URLs, error strings.
  • Numbers, flags, config keys.

Examples

Input: "Could you please explain what this function does?" Output: "Reads config. Returns parsed struct. Errors on missing file."

Input: "How do I add a dependency in Rust?" Output: "Add to Cargo.toml: my_crate = \"1.0\". Run cargo build."

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. 2d ago First seen · 37 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A fb19118da686

Subscribe to this mod's changes

caveman is a skill published in the GitHub repository bug-ops/zeph (57 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 290 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 2026-08-30.