agentic-stack: Skill for Cursor

.cursor/skills/caveman/SKILL.md

caveman is a skill for Cursor from codejunkie99/agentic-stack. It costs 59 tokens per session (1,530 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of caveman, Apache-2.0.

A communication style skill that makes coding-agent replies shorter while keeping their technical meaning. It supports several compression levels and can remain active until turned off.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps produce terse explanations, error summaries, and technical responses, including a mode using classical Chinese wording.
Why use it?
It reduces filler and response length when a developer wants brief answers. It does not change the technical work the agent performs.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

This is codejunkie99/agentic-stack's own configuration. It tells Cursor how to work on agentic-stack itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything agentic-stack configures →

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to codejunkie99/agentic-stack. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codejunkie99/agentic-stack/master/.cursor/skills/caveman/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/codejunkie99/agentic-stack

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,530 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 63% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00059 $0.01530
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00765
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00306
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00153

Measured yesterday against content hash fec5718a391d, 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.

Origin

This is a copy

63% identical to caveman — 66 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.cursor/skills/caveman/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 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

Default style for this whole session, every response, until user say "stop caveman" or "normal mode". Keep terse on long sessions no filler drift.

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.

Never ADD word to sound caveman. Compression only style never grow output. No inserted pronoun or copula to fake broken grammar: "when it not" cost one token more than "when not" and say same thing. Keep correct verb form when correct form cost same "sees" one token, "see" one token, so mangle buy nothing and read worse. Same rule as abbreviations and arrows: if caveman phrasing not shorter than plain phrasing, use plain.

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.

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 88 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A fec5718a391d

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caveman is a skill published in the GitHub repository codejunkie99/agentic-stack (2,253 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 1,530 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 63% identical to caveman, differing in 66 lines, and is treated as a copy.