Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to Jm-Paunlagui/CATHERINE. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jm-Paunlagui/CATHERINE/main/.claude/skills/caveman-compress/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jm-Paunlagui/CATHERINEWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jm-paunlagui/catherine/caveman-compress)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jm-paunlagui/catherine/caveman-compress"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jm-paunlagui/catherine/caveman-compress/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jm-paunlagui/catherine/caveman-compress"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jm-paunlagui/catherine/caveman-compress.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00078 | $0.01054 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00031 | $0.00422 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00016 | $0.00211 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00105 |
Grade A, and why
caveman-compress 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 2mo 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.
This is a copy
84% identical to caveman-compress — 31 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 123 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Caveman Compress
Purpose
Compress natural language files (CLAUDE.md, todos, preferences) into caveman-speak to reduce input tokens. Compressed version overwrites original. Human-readable backup saved as <filename>.original.md.
Trigger
/caveman:compress <filepath> or when user asks to compress a memory file.
Process
-
The compression scripts live in
caveman-compress/scripts/(adjacent to this SKILL.md). If the path is not immediately available, search forcaveman-compress/scripts/__main__.py. -
Run:
cd caveman-compress && python3 -m scripts <absolute_filepath>
- The CLI will:
- detect file type (no tokens)
- call Claude to compress
- validate output (no tokens)
- if errors: cherry-pick fix with Claude (targeted fixes only, no recompression)
- retry up to 2 times
- if still failing after 2 retries: report error to user, leave original file untouched
- Return result to user
Compression Rules
Remove
- Articles: a, an, the
- Filler: just, really, basically, actually, simply, essentially, generally
- Pleasantries: "sure", "certainly", "of course", "happy to", "I'd recommend"
- Hedging: "it might be worth", "you could consider", "it would be good to"
- Redundant phrasing: "in order to" → "to", "make sure to" → "ensure", "the reason is because" → "because"
- Connective fluff: "however", "furthermore", "additionally", "in addition"
Preserve EXACTLY (never modify)
- Code blocks (fenced ``` and indented)
- Inline code (
backtick content) - URLs and links (full URLs, markdown links)
- File paths (
/src/components/...,./config.yaml) - Commands (
npm install,git commit,docker build) - Technical terms (library names, API names, protocols, algorithms)
- Proper nouns (project names, people, companies)
- Dates, version numbers, numeric values
- Environment variables (
$HOME,NODE_ENV)
Preserve Structure
- All markdown headings (keep exact heading text, compress body below)
- Bullet point hierarchy (keep nesting level)
- Numbered lists (keep numbering)
- Tables (compress cell text, keep structure)
- Frontmatter/YAML headers in markdown files
What ships with it
9 files 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.
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 123 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 4c7255cb97a9
caveman-compress is a skill published in the GitHub repository Jm-Paunlagui/CATHERINE (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,054 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 84% identical to caveman-compress, differing in 31 lines, and is treated as a copy.
caveman-compress compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| caveman-compressJm-Paunlagui/CATHERINE | Skill | 2 | 2d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 78 | Claude Code |
| knowledge-ingestopenclaw/openclaw | Skill | 394k | yesterday | MIT | A | 80 | Claude Code, Codex |
| mem0-oss-to-platformmem0ai/mem0 | Skill | 68k | 2d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 217 | Claude Code, Codex |
| forgetasgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks | Skill | 71k | 2d ago | CC0-1.0 | A | 74 | Claude Code, Codex |
| Cortexdanielmiessler/LifeOS | Skill | 20k | yesterday | MIT | A | 184 | Claude Code |
| memoryopensquilla/opensquilla | Skill | 7.1k | 6d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 44 | Claude Code, Codex |
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