caveman-help
Quick-reference card for caveman modes, skills and commands. Trigger: /caveman-help or "caveman help".
Install / Use
npx skills add JuliusBrussee/caveman --skill caveman-helpInstalls into whichever agent you are using.
SKILL.md
Installable skill definition
Quality Score
Category
Development & EngineeringSupported Platforms
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Our assessment of caveman-help
caveman-help scores 87/100 on our quality scale, 385th of 1,751 Development & Engineering skills we index (top 22%).
Its SKILL.md is 2.2 KB long, split into 7 sections with 2 code examples: moderately detailed.
With 107,653 GitHub stars, it is one of the more widely adopted skills in the catalogue.
Maintenance, license and trust
- The repository was last updated yesterday, so caveman-help is actively maintained.
- No license is declared. By default that means all rights are reserved: you can read it, but reusing or redistributing it is not clearly permitted. Ask the author before building on it commercially.
- Its trust signals score 88/100, with 1 caution from licensing, adoption, age or documentation. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.
caveman-help compared with similar skills
All 4 of these similar skills score higher than caveman-help; compare them before choosing.
| Skill | Score | Stars | Updated | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| caveman-help (this skill)by JuliusBrussee | 87 | 107.7k | 1d ago | SKILL.md |
| ai-job-searchby MadsLorentzen | 100 | 43.9k | 4d ago | CLAUDE.md |
| claude-howtoby luongnv89 | 100 | 41.7k | 5d ago | CLAUDE.md |
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Frequently asked questions
- How do I install caveman-help?
- Run
npx skills add JuliusBrussee/caveman --skill caveman-help. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent. - Which AI agents does caveman-help work with?
- It is written for Universal, as a SKILL.md file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
- Is caveman-help safe to use?
- It declares no license and scores 88/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
- Is caveman-help still maintained?
- The repository was last updated yesterday, so caveman-help is actively maintained.
Skill content
View source on GitHubname: caveman-help description: > Quick-reference card for caveman modes, skills and commands. Trigger: /caveman-help or "caveman help".
Caveman Help
Display this reference card when invoked. One-shot — do NOT change mode, write flag files, or persist anything. Output in caveman style.
Modes
| Mode | Trigger | What change |
|------|---------|-------------|
| Lite | /caveman lite | Drop filler. Keep sentence structure. |
| Full | /caveman | Drop articles, filler, pleasantries, hedging. Fragments OK. Default. |
| Ultra | /caveman ultra | Extreme compression. Bare fragments. Tables over prose. |
| Wenyan-Lite | /caveman wenyan-lite | Classical Chinese style, light compression. |
| Wenyan-Full | /caveman wenyan | Full 文言文. Maximum classical terseness. |
| Wenyan-Ultra | /caveman wenyan-ultra | Extreme. Ancient scholar on a budget. |
Mode stick until changed or session end.
Skills
| Skill | Trigger | What it do |
|-------|---------|-----------|
| caveman-commit | /caveman-commit | Terse commit messages. Conventional Commits. ≤50 char subject. |
| caveman-review | /caveman-review | One-line PR comments: L42: bug: user null. Add guard. |
| caveman-compress | /caveman-compress <file> | Compress .md files to caveman prose. Saves ~46% input tokens. |
| caveman-help | /caveman-help | This card. |
Deactivate
Say "stop caveman" or "normal mode". Resume anytime with /caveman.
Language
Keep user's language by default — reply in the language user writes, never switch regardless of example text or multilingual context elsewhere. Compress the style, not the language. Technical terms, code, commands, commit types, and exact error strings stay verbatim unless user ask for translation.
Configure Default Mode
Default mode = full. Change it:
Environment variable (highest priority):
export CAVEMAN_DEFAULT_MODE=ultra
Config file (~/.config/caveman/config.json):
{ "defaultMode": "lite" }
Set "off" to disable auto-activation on session start. User can still activate manually with /caveman.
Resolution: env var > config file > full.
More
Full docs: https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman
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Trust signals
From repository metadata: license, adoption, age and documentation. Not a code audit — see the Safety scan above for what the skill file itself contains.