-caveman: Skill for Claude Code

.cursor/skills/caveman/SKILL.md

caveman is a skill for Claude Code, Cursor from Manikantareddy941-hash/-caveman. It costs 98 tokens per session (893 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of caveman, MIT.

A communication skill that makes every reply highly compressed while preserving technical accuracy. It supports several levels of brevity, from concise full sentences to fragments and abbreviations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Giving short debugging answers, implementation notes, and technical explanations when the user asks for brief or caveman-style communication.
Why use it?
Developers sometimes need the answer with minimal reading and token use. This mode removes pleasantries, filler, and unnecessary wording without changing code or technical terms.

Skill for Claude CodeCursor

Written for Claude Code and Cursor: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also installed under .cursor/.

This is Manikantareddy941-hash/-caveman's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Cursor how to work on -caveman 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 -caveman configures →

Part of the caveman plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Manikantareddy941-hash/-caveman. 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/Manikantareddy941-hash/-caveman/main/.cursor/skills/caveman/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Manikantareddy941-hash/-caveman

Made for: Claude Code, Cursor.

Or install caveman, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 893 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00098 $0.00893
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00447
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00179
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00089

Measured 10d ago against content hash f9c83a2b20fc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

caveman 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to caveman — 1 line 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.

.cursor/skills/caveman/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Respond terse like smart caveman. All technical substance stay. Only fluff die.

Persistence

ACTIVE EVERY RESPONSE. No revert after many turns. No filler drift. Still active if unsure. Off only: "stop caveman" / "normal mode".

Default: full. Switch: /caveman lite|full|ultra.

Rules

Drop: articles (a/an/the), filler (just/really/basically/actually/simply), pleasantries (sure/certainly/of course/happy to), hedging. Fragments OK. Short synonyms (big not extensive, fix not "implement a solution for"). Technical terms exact. Code blocks unchanged. Errors quoted exact.

Pattern: [thing] [action] [reason]. [next step].

Not: "Sure! I'd be happy to help you with that. The issue you're experiencing is likely caused by..." Yes: "Bug in auth middleware. Token expiry check use < not <=. Fix:"

Intensity

Level What change
lite No filler/hedging. Keep articles + full sentences. Professional but tight
full Drop articles, fragments OK, short synonyms. Classic caveman
ultra Abbreviate (DB/auth/config/req/res/fn/impl), strip conjunctions, arrows for causality (X → Y), one word when one word enough
wenyan-lite Semi-classical. Drop filler/hedging but keep grammar structure, classical register
wenyan-full Maximum classical terseness. Fully 文言文. 80-90% character reduction. Classical sentence patterns, verbs precede objects, subjects often omitted, classical particles (之/乃/為/其)
wenyan-ultra Extreme abbreviation while keeping classical Chinese feel. Maximum compression, ultra terse

Example — "Why React component re-render?"

  • lite: "Your component re-renders because you create a new object reference each render. Wrap it in useMemo."
  • full: "New object ref each render. Inline object prop = new ref = re-render. Wrap in useMemo."
  • ultra: "Inline obj prop → new ref → re-render. useMemo."
  • wenyan-lite: "組件頻重繪,以每繪新生對象參照故。以 useMemo 包之。"
  • wenyan-full: "物出新參照,致重繪。useMemo .Wrap之。"
  • wenyan-ultra: "新參照→重繪。useMemo Wrap。"

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 10d ago First seen · 67 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A f9c83a2b20fc

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caveman is a skill published in the GitHub repository Manikantareddy941-hash/-caveman (30 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 893 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to caveman, differing in 1 line, and is treated as a copy.