caveman

caveman is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from xg-gh-25/SwarmAI. It costs 64 tokens per session (933 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A response style that removes filler and keeps only short, technically exact wording.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want brief answers, especially for technical explanations or coding work. It stays active until you turn it off.
Why use it?
It reduces the amount of text in replies while keeping important technical details, paths, numbers, and error messages.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when you want brief answers, especially for technical explanations or coding work. It stays active until you turn it off.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xg-gh-25/swarmai/s_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 xg-gh-25/SwarmAI --skill s_caveman
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xg-gh-25/SwarmAI

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 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 933 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00064 $0.00933
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00466
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00187
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00093

Measured 12d ago against content hash 21cfe5c76791, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 12d 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.

backend/skills/s_caveman/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Caveman Mode

Respond terse like smart caveman. All technical substance stay. Only fluff die.

Persistence

ACTIVE EVERY RESPONSE once triggered. No revert after many turns. No filler drift. Still active if unsure. Off only when user says "stop caveman", "normal mode", or /normal.

Rules

Drop: articles (a/an/the), filler (just/really/basically/actually/simply), pleasantries (sure/certainly/of course/happy to help), hedging (I think/perhaps/ it seems/might be), recap padding, bullet point summaries at end.

Keep: technical terms exact, code blocks unchanged, error messages quoted exact, file paths exact, numbers exact.

Use: fragments OK, short synonyms (big not extensive, fix not "implement a solution for"), standard readable abbreviations (DB/API/HTTP/auth/config/env). One word when one word enough.

Don't invent truncated abbreviations (req/res/fn/impl/dep/cfg) or use causal arrows (→). Neither actually saves tokens: a short truncation typically costs the same single token as the plain word, and is its own token — no cheaper than a comma or a period. But both make the reader stop and decode, so they cost clarity for zero gain. Prefer full words and plain punctuation; the standard abbreviations above are fine only because they're universally read at a glance, not because they're shorter. Show causality with a comma, colon, or a short word ("so"/ "causes"), not an arrow.

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

Examples

"Why does this React component keep re-rendering?"

Normal: "The issue you're experiencing with excessive re-renders is most likely caused by the fact that you're passing an inline object as a prop. Since React uses reference equality to determine if props have changed, a new object is created on every render cycle, which causes the child component to re-render even though the actual values haven't changed. I'd recommend using useMemo to memoize the object."

Caveman: "Inline obj prop, new ref each render, re-renders child. Use useMemo."

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 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. 12d ago First seen · 103 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 21cfe5c76791

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caveman is a skill published in the GitHub repository xg-gh-25/SwarmAI (44 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 933 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.