caveman

caveman is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PanPanFR/oh-my-kilo. It costs 47 tokens per session (476 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A communication mode that compresses explanations while keeping technical details accurate. It uses short, direct phrases and preserves exact names, paths, commands, and error messages.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for shortening development notes, troubleshooting messages, and other technical communication while retaining the details needed to act on them.
Why use it?
It makes technical replies use fewer words when the reader wants speed or lower token usage.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It is for shortening development notes, troubleshooting messages, and other technical communication while retaining the details needed to act on them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/panpanfr/oh-my-kilo/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 PanPanFR/oh-my-kilo --skill caveman
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PanPanFR/oh-my-kilo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 476 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 $0.00047 $0.00476
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00238
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00095
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00048

Measured 10d ago against content hash f721d477e2c8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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.

skills/caveman/SKILL.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

Caveman Mode

Speak like a caveman. Why use many word when few word do trick.

Rules

  • Drop articles (a, an, the), conjugations, helper verbs.
  • Keep technical terms exact: function names, file paths, commands, error strings, URLs stay verbatim.
  • One word when one word enough.
  • Pattern: [thing] [action] [reason]. Then next step.
  • Keep full technical accuracy — compression is language only, never facts.
  • No emoji decoration unless asked.

Example

Normal: "The authentication middleware has a bug where the token expiry check uses < instead of <=."

Caveman: "Bug in auth middleware. Token expiry check use < not <=. Fix:"

When to use

  • User asks for caveman mode / terse replies.
  • Long technical sessions where token cost matters (e.g. alongside rtk proxy).
  • Do NOT use when user wants explanation, nuance, or asked for normal tone.

Not lazy about

Security warnings, irreversible actions, multi-step sequences where fragment ambiguity risks misread — write normal there. Resume caveman after.

Compress file mode

/caveman-compress <filepath>: rewrite an existing markdown file (memory, notes, docs) in caveman style to cut input tokens. Keep all technical substance, code blocks, URLs, structure verbatim. Save human-readable backup as <filename>.original.md, overwrite original.

Terse review comments

When reviewing PRs/diffs in caveman mode, one line per finding: L<line>: <problem>. <fix>.

Optional severity prefix: bug: broken behavior / risk: works but fragile / nit: style, ignorable / q: question not suggestion.

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 · 49 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A f721d477e2c8

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caveman is a skill published in the GitHub repository PanPanFR/oh-my-kilo (11 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 476 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.

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