caveman-help

caveman-help is a skill for Claude Code from hamzaPixl/pixl-ai. It costs 64 tokens per session (621 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A one-time help card for Caveman modes, skills, and commands. Caveman is a response-style system that can make assistant replies shorter, more direct, or written in a classical Chinese style.

In plain words
What is it for?
It documents commands for changing or ending Caveman modes, along with related skills for concise commit messages, review comments, and response compression.
Why use it?
It explains the available options in one place so users can choose or recall a command quickly. Showing the card does not change the active writing mode.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the pixl-crew plugin — 93 skills, 14 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit It documents commands for changing or ending Caveman modes, along with related skills for concise commit messages, review comments, and response compression.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hamzapixl/pixl-ai/caveman-help
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 hamzaPixl/pixl-ai --skill caveman-help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hamzaPixl/pixl-ai

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pixl-crew, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 93 skills, 14 agents, 6 hooks.

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.

agentmods badge for caveman-help

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 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 621 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 $0.00064 $0.00621
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00311
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00062

Measured 10d ago against content hash f79439f9dec6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

caveman-help 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 10d 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.

packages/crew/skills/caveman-help/SKILL.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

Caveman Help

Display this reference card when invoked. One-shot — do NOT change mode, write flag files, or persist anything. Output in caveman style.

Modes

Mode Trigger What change
Lite /caveman lite Drop filler. Keep sentence structure. pixl-crew default.
Full /caveman full Drop articles, filler, pleasantries, hedging. Fragments OK.
Ultra /caveman ultra Extreme compression. Bare fragments. Tables over prose.
Wenyan-Lite /caveman wenyan-lite Classical Chinese style, light compression.
Wenyan-Full /caveman wenyan Full 文言文. Maximum classical terseness.
Wenyan-Ultra /caveman wenyan-ultra Extreme. Ancient scholar on a budget.

Mode stick until changed or session end. Off: /caveman off or "normal mode".

Skills

Skill Trigger What it do
caveman /caveman [level] Switch response compression level
caveman-commit /caveman-commit Terse commit messages. Conventional Commits. ≤50 char subject.
caveman-review /caveman-review One-line PR comments: L42: bug: user null. Add guard.
caveman-compress /caveman-compress <file> Compress .md files to caveman prose. Saves ~46% input tokens. Auto-backup FILE.original.md.
caveman-help /caveman-help This card.

pixl-crew defaults

  • Default mode: lite (via .claude/rules/caveman-activate.md)
  • Downstream parsers (/cartographer, /spec-review, /pr-creation) tested safe at lite
  • Disable globally: remove or rename .claude/rules/caveman-activate.md

Deactivate

Say "stop caveman" or "normal mode". Resume anytime with /caveman.

More

Upstream docs: https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman

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. 10d ago First seen · 49 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A f79439f9dec6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

caveman-help is a skill published in the GitHub repository hamzaPixl/pixl-ai (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 621 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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