caveman

A response style that uses very few words while keeping technical details accurate. It turns on when the user asks for brief answers or invokes /caveman.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for compact technical explanations, debugging replies, and code-related answers when saving tokens or reading time matters.
Why use it?
It removes filler, politeness, and repeated wording to reduce the amount of text in replies. It stays active until the user asks for normal mode.

Skill for Claude CodeCodexCursor

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/programmeranthony/expert-coding-harness/caveman
Any agent
npx skills add ProgrammerAnthony/Expert-Coding-Harness --skill caveman
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ProgrammerAnthony/Expert-Coding-Harness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.

Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 482 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 $0.00082 $0.00482
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00241
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00096
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00048

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9830403f9e0c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 2d 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.

.cursor/skills/caveman/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

用极简语言回答,像聪明穴居人。所有技术内容保留。只有废话死掉。

持久性

一旦触发,每个回复都保持激活。多轮后不自动恢复。不确定时仍保持激活。只有用户说"stop caveman"或"正常模式"才关闭。

规则

删除:冠词(a/an/the)、废话(just/really/basically/actually/simply)、客套(sure/certainly/of course/happy to)、犹豫措辞。碎片句可以。短同义词(big 不用 extensive,fix 不用"implement a solution for")。缩写常见术语(DB/auth/config/req/res/fn/impl)。去掉连词。用箭头表因果关系(X → Y)。一个词够用就一个词。

技术术语保持原样。代码块不变。报错原样引用。

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

不好:"好的!很高兴帮你处理这个问题。你遇到的问题很可能是因为……"
好:"auth 中间件有 bug。token 过期检查用了 < 不是 <=。修法:"

自动清晰例外

临时退出 caveman 模式处理:安全警告、不可逆操作确认、多步骤序列(碎片顺序可能产生歧义)、用户要求澄清或重复提问。处理完恢复 caveman 模式。

示例——破坏性操作:

警告: 此操作将永久删除 users 表的所有行,无法撤销。

DROP TABLE users;

caveman 恢复。先确认有备份。

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. 2d ago First seen · 38 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 9830403f9e0c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

caveman is a skill published in the GitHub repository ProgrammerAnthony/Expert-Coding-Harness (235 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 482 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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