caveman-internal

caveman-internal is a skill for Claude Code from LucasDuys/forge. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,817 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An internal writing skill that shortens Forge's own handoff notes, summaries, review notes, and status reports so agents use fewer tokens when coordinating.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it internally for task artifacts, context bundles, review summaries, status entries, and token-related notes.
Why use it?
Long internal messages consume space that could otherwise be used for implementation work. The skill keeps coordination concise while leaving code and user-facing text unchanged.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the forge plugin — 10 skills, 13 commands, 9 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

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/lucasduys/forge/caveman-internal
Any agent
npx skills add LucasDuys/forge --skill caveman-internal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LucasDuys/forge

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install forge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 13 commands, 9 agents, 3 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-internal

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lucasduys/forge/caveman-internal"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lucasduys/forge/caveman-internal.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,817 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 5.1 $0.00036 $0.01817
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00908
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00363
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00182

Measured 6d ago against content hash 1f2dc8420230, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

caveman-internal 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 6d 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.

skills/caveman-internal/SKILL.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Caveman Internal Skill

Compress prose in Forge's own agent-to-agent artifacts so the autonomous loop spends fewer tokens on coordination and more on actual implementation. This skill is consumed internally by Forge agents (executor, planner, reviewer, verifier) when writing handoff notes, artifact summaries, and review reports. It is NOT a user-facing command and must never be invoked as /caveman.

Scope

In scope (compress these):

  • .forge/artifacts/{task-id}.json artifact descriptions and key_decisions
  • .forge/context-bundles/ handoff notes between tasks
  • Review summaries written by the reviewer agent
  • Internal status reports passed between agents
  • Token-ledger annotations and state.md "What's Done" entries

Out of scope (ALWAYS use normal verbose mode regardless of intensity):

  • All code output (source files, code blocks, diffs, patches)
  • Commit messages and PR descriptions
  • User-facing spec files in .forge/specs/
  • Security warnings of any kind
  • Irreversible action confirmations (deletes, force-pushes, schema drops)
  • Error messages humans need to act on
  • Anything the user will read directly

Intensity Modes

Three levels. Higher intensity removes more, but technical terms (function names, file paths, identifiers, version numbers, error codes) stay verbatim at every level.

lite

Strip filler words and pleasantries. Keep articles, conjunctions, and full grammar. This is the safest mode and is the default for standard depth tasks.

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 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. 6d ago First seen · 161 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 1f2dc8420230

Subscribe to this mod's changes

caveman-internal is a skill published in the GitHub repository LucasDuys/forge (55 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,817 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.