cavekit-methodology

cavekit-methodology is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JuliusBrussee/caveman-code. It costs 60 tokens per session (2,806 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specification-first method for building software with coding agents. Its Hunt lifecycle moves through Draft, Architect, Build, Inspect, and Monitor stages, with written kits serving as the requirements agents use to create and check code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start a project, organize an existing codebase, modernize a system, or guide an AI agent through requirements, implementation, review, and monitoring.
Why use it?
It reduces confusion and rework by defining the desired system before implementation and keeping those requirements available as the project changes.

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/juliusbrussee/caveman-code/cavekit-methodology
Any agent
npx skills add JuliusBrussee/caveman-code --skill cavekit-methodology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman-code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,806 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 $0.00060 $0.02806
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01403
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00561
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00281

Measured 5d ago against content hash 765e21ebc2a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cavekit-methodology 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 5d 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/coding-agent/skills/cavekit-methodology/SKILL.md · 265 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 265 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cavekit Methodology

Core Principle: Specify Before Building

Always define what you want before telling agents how to build it. Go through a cavekit stage — never jump straight from raw requirements to implementation.

Cavekit is a methodology for building software with AI coding agents that puts kits at the center of the development process — code is derived from them, not the other way around. Whether starting from scratch or modernizing an existing system, the principle is the same:

  • Greenfield projects: reference material → kits → code
  • Rewrites: old code → kits → new code

In both cases, the kits become a living contract that agents consume to continuously build, validate, and refine the application.

Why Kits Are the First-Class Citizen

Property Benefit
Structured Organized as a navigable tree, enabling agents to load only what they need
Human-legible Engineers can audit requirements at a higher level than code
Stack-independent Decoupled from any single framework or language
Independently evolvable Kits can be refined without touching implementation
Verifiable Every requirement includes acceptance criteria agents can check

Key Insight: Well-written kits with strong validation make your application reproducible — any agent can rebuild it from the kits alone. Think of it as continuous regeneration.


The Scientific Method Analogy

LLMs are inherently non-deterministic — like running an experiment, each individual call may yield different results. But through the right methodology — clear hypotheses, controlled conditions, and repeated trials — we extract reliable, reproducible outcomes from a stochastic process.

Cavekit applies the scientific method to software construction — hypothesize, test, observe, refine.

Layer Analogy What It Does
LLM calls Individual experiments Each run may produce different results; no single output is authoritative
Kits Hypotheses Define what you expect to observe — the predicted behavior
Validation gates Controlled conditions Ensure reproducibility by constraining what counts as a valid outcome
Convergence loops Repeated trials Build statistical confidence through successive passes
Implementation tracking Lab notebook Record what was tried, what worked, and what failed
Revision Revising the hypothesis When results contradict expectations, update the theory upstream

Read the full file on GitHub · 265 lines

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. 5d ago First seen · 265 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 765e21ebc2a2

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cavekit-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository JuliusBrussee/caveman-code (931 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 2,806 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.

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