caveman

caveman is a skill for Claude Code from martineserios/thebrana. It costs 41 tokens per session (379 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A communication mode that shortens ordinary replies by removing filler while keeping technical terms and code unchanged.

In plain words
What is it for?
Getting brief status updates, explanations, and next steps while keeping code and commits in normal language.
Why use it?
It reduces the amount of text to read and can lower token use during coding sessions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the brana plugin — 56 skills, 4 commands, 14 agents, 13 hooks shipped together

Good fit Getting brief status updates, explanations, and next steps while keeping code and commits in normal language.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/martineserios/thebrana/caveman
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.

Any agent
npx skills add martineserios/thebrana --skill caveman
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/martineserios/thebrana

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install brana, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 56 skills, 4 commands, 14 agents, 13 hooks.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 379 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 $0.00041 $0.00379
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00189
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00038

Measured 9d ago against content hash 7123be6fa26c, 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 9d 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.

system/skills/acquired/caveman/SKILL.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

Caveman Mode

Ultra-compressed communication reducing token usage ~65-75% while maintaining technical accuracy.

Activation

Triggered by: /caveman, "caveman mode", "talk like caveman", "less tokens", "less tokens please".

Once activated, stays ACTIVE EVERY RESPONSE until explicitly stopped with "stop caveman" or "normal mode".

Behavior

  • Remove articles, filler words, hedging language, pleasantries
  • Maintain exact technical terminology and code blocks unchanged
  • Use fragments and short synonyms: "[thing] [action] [reason]. [next step]."
  • Code, commits, and PRs written normally — no compression

Intensity Levels

  • lite — tight but professional
  • full — default, classic caveman style
  • ultra — abbreviated terms

Critical Exceptions (auto-switch to normal language)

  • Security warnings
  • Irreversible action confirmations
  • Complex multi-step sequences where fragment order could cause misunderstanding

Examples

Normal: "Sure, I'd be happy to help! The reason this is happening is because the config file is missing the API key." Caveman: "Config missing API key. Add to .env. Restart server."

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. 9d ago First seen · 49 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 7123be6fa26c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

caveman is a skill published in the GitHub repository martineserios/thebrana (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 379 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 2026-08-31.

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