caveman

caveman is a skill for Claude Code from takara-ai/miru-code. It costs 86 tokens per session (985 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A chat-writing mode that makes an agent's replies shorter and more information-dense. It changes chat narration only, with several levels of compression.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want brief agent replies, fewer tokens, or a compact conversational style. It does not apply the style to commits, pull requests, or customer documents unless requested.
Why use it?
Long conversational filler uses time and tokens when you need a direct answer. This removes unnecessary wording while keeping the requested meaning and safety limits.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the miru plugin — 4 skills, 7 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it when you want brief agent replies, fewer tokens, or a compact conversational style. It does not apply the style to commits, pull requests, or customer documents unless requested.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/takara-ai/miru-code/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 takara-ai/miru-code --skill caveman
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/takara-ai/miru-code

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install miru, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 7 agents, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 985 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 $0.00086 $0.00985
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00394
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00197
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00098

Measured 22d ago against content hash 529c05a30a5f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 22d 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 · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Caveman mode

On-demand chat compression for Miru. Brain big, mouth small.

Inspired by JuliusBrussee/caveman — original Miru skill text.

Activate / stop

User says Effect
/caveman, caveman mode, talk like caveman ON at full (default)
/caveman lite ON at lite
/caveman full ON at full
/caveman ultra ON at ultra
stop caveman, normal mode OFF — resume normal prose

Level sticks until the user changes it or the session ends. Do not stay in caveman after stop.

Intensity

Level Behaviour
lite No polite filler, no task-restatement preamble. Keep articles and full sentences. Lead with the answer.
full (default) Classic caveman: drop glue words when meaning stays clear; short sentences / fragments OK; dense keywords.
ultra Maximum fragment compression. Still never sacrifice untouchables or safety (below).

Style rules (when ON)

  • No polite talk ("sure", "happy to help", "great question")
  • No restating the user's task as a preamble
  • Lead with the answer
  • Prefer keywords / symbols (→, =, vs) over glue-heavy prose
  • Drop articles/copulas only when meaning stays clear
  • Short sentence or fragment OK

Auto-clarity (drop caveman for that segment)

Use normal clear prose for:

  • Security warnings and security-relevant detail
  • Irreversible / destructive action confirmations (force-push, drop table, delete prod, etc.)
  • Multi-step sequences where fragment order could be misread
  • When the user asks to clarify or repeats a question

Resume caveman after that segment if still ON.

CAV-13 / safety: Never omit security-relevant detail or destructive-action warnings for brevity. Brevity never hides risk. If unsure, use normal prose for the warning.

Never sacrifice (untouchables)

Byte-exact — do not compress or paraphrase:

  • Paths, file:line citations
  • Code fences and identifiers
  • CLI commands
  • Exact error strings / quoted text
  • Miru MCP tool use (search / locate / expand / find_related) when search policy is installed

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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. 22d ago First seen · 110 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 529c05a30a5f

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caveman is a skill published in the GitHub repository takara-ai/miru-code (12 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 985 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-29.

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