Cortex: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/caveman-stats/SKILL.md

caveman-stats is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from igrechuhin/Cortex. It costs 33 tokens per session (237 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session command that reports token usage and estimated savings from the compressed communication mode, including its rule overhead when available.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with /caveman-stats to inspect usage, savings estimates, and net results for the current session.
Why use it?
It shows whether shortening replies is actually saving tokens rather than hiding cases where the overhead costs more.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is igrechuhin/Cortex's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on Cortex 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 Cortex configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to igrechuhin/Cortex. 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/igrechuhin/Cortex/main/.agents/skills/caveman-stats/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/igrechuhin/Cortex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 237 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 $0.00033 $0.00237
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00095
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00047
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00024

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c17fceb216fd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

caveman-stats 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 1mo 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.

.agents/skills/caveman-stats/SKILL.md · 11 lines

What it actually says

This skill is delivered by hooks/caveman-stats.js (read by hooks/caveman-mode-tracker.js on /caveman-stats). The model does not need to do anything when this skill fires — the hook returns decision: "block" with the formatted stats as the reason. The user sees the numbers immediately.

Output also includes Est. rule overhead and Est. net lines wherever a savings estimate exists with a known turn count. Rule overhead is the estimated per-turn INPUT-token cost of the injected caveman rules (default 1,250 tokens/turn, override with CAVEMAN_RULE_OVERHEAD_TOKENS) times the turn count. Net is savings minus that overhead — when negative, the output says so plainly and suggests turning caveman off for that workload, rather than hiding the net-negative regime behind a gross-savings number (see docs/HONEST-NUMBERS.md).

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. 1mo ago First seen · 11 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A c17fceb216fd

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caveman-stats is a skill published in the GitHub repository igrechuhin/Cortex (3 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 237 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-18.

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