caveman

caveman is a skill for Claude Code from skyfox675/agents-skills. It costs 98 tokens per session (472 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A communication mode that uses very short, compressed wording while keeping technical meaning. It can be enabled at different levels of brevity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want concise explanations, status updates, or technical instructions, especially during repeated agent interactions.
Why use it?
It reduces the amount of text needed when the reader already understands the context. The stated purpose is to save tokens without losing technical accuracy.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; built for cline.

Good fit Use it when you want concise explanations, status updates, or technical instructions, especially during repeated agent interactions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/skyfox675/agents-skills/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 skyfox675/agents-skills --skill caveman
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skyfox675/agents-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/skyfox675/agents-skills/caveman/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/skyfox675/agents-skills/caveman)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/skyfox675/agents-skills/caveman"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/skyfox675/agents-skills/caveman/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for caveman

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/skyfox675/agents-skills/caveman"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/skyfox675/agents-skills/caveman.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 472 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00098 $0.00472
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00236
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00047

Measured 9d ago against content hash a2c1a5160631, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

caveman scanned grade C with 2 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

- **macOS / Linux / WSL / Git Bash:** `curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman/main/install.sh | bash`

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- **macOS / Linux / WSL / Git Bash:** `curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman/main/install.sh | bash`
.claude/skills/caveman/SKILL.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

caveman (pointer skill)

Pointer skill — the implementation is not stored here. The name above is the stable local contract; the body lives upstream and is fetched/installed from source so consumers always get the latest version.

Installing this skill

caveman is a full plugin — hooks, a session flag for auto-activation, a statusline token-savings badge, and slash commands. Copying this SKILL.md alone will not work. Run the upstream installer, which detects your agents and configures each:

  • macOS / Linux / WSL / Git Bash: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman/main/install.sh | bash
  • Windows (PowerShell 5.1+): irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman/main/install.ps1 | iex

Auto-activates in Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini; installs always-on rule files for Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, and Copilot. Full agent list: upstream INSTALL.md.

Security: curl … | bash runs remote code — review install.sh before piping it to a shell. Do not inline the upstream body here.

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. 9d ago First seen · 25 lines · 98 tokens per session scan C a2c1a5160631

Subscribe to this mod's changes

caveman is a skill published in the GitHub repository skyfox675/agents-skills (10 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 472 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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