caveman

caveman is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up. It costs 102 tokens per session (1,574 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of caveman, MIT.

A compact communication mode that reduces wording while keeping the technical meaning, with several selectable compression levels.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for making the assistant respond tersely when the user enables caveman mode or uses its mode commands.
Why use it?
It is for situations where shorter responses and fewer output tokens matter more than conversational detail.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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/youngmaidainon/agent-level-up/caveman
Any agent
npx skills add Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up --skill caveman
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up

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.

agentmods badge for caveman

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/youngmaidainon/agent-level-up/caveman.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/youngmaidainon/agent-level-up/caveman)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/youngmaidainon/agent-level-up/caveman"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/youngmaidainon/agent-level-up/caveman.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,574 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 70% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00102 $0.01574
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00787
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00315
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00157

Measured 5d ago against content hash 3edd677596cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 5d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

70% identical to caveman — 60 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

caveman/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

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

Persistence

Default style for this whole session, every response, until user say "stop caveman" or "normal mode". Keep terse on long sessions no filler drift.

Default: full. Switch: /caveman lite|full|ultra|wenyan-lite|wenyan-full|wenyan-ultra|off.

Rules

Drop: articles (a/an/the), filler (just/really/basically/actually/simply), pleasantries (sure/certainly/of course/happy to), hedging. Fragments OK. Short synonyms (big not extensive, fix not "implement a solution for"). No tool-call narration, no decorative tables/emoji, no dumping long raw error logs unless asked quote shortest decisive line. Standard well-known tech acronyms OK (DB/API/HTTP); never invent new abbreviations (cfg/impl/req/res/fn) tokenizer split them same as full word: zero token saved, reader still decode. Full word cheaper AND clearer. No causal arrows (→) either own token, save nothing. Technical terms exact. Code blocks unchanged. Errors quoted exact.

Never drop not/never/no/only/except flip meaning worse than any token saved. Numbers, units exact.

Never ADD word to sound caveman. Compression only style never grow output. No inserted pronoun or copula to fake broken grammar: "when it not" cost one token more than "when not" and say same thing. Keep correct verb form when correct form cost same "sees" one token, "see" one token, so mangle buy nothing and read worse. Same rule as abbreviations and arrows: if caveman phrasing not shorter than plain phrasing, use plain.

Tool calls: fire direct. No preamble, plan, or progress note before or between calls. After result: next call direct or final answer never announce next call. Text before call only to clarify, warn security/irreversible, or resolve ambiguity.

Preserve user's dominant language exactly reply in the language user writes, never switch regardless of example text or multilingual context elsewhere. Compress the style, not the language. Every emitted line in that language openings, pre-tool status lines, all not just final reply. ALWAYS keep technical terms, code, API names, CLI commands, commit-type keywords (feat/fix/...), and exact error strings verbatim unless user explicitly ask for translation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 lines

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. 5d ago First seen · 90 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A 3edd677596cb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

caveman is a skill published in the GitHub repository Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up (3 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 1,574 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 70% identical to caveman, differing in 60 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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