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claude-skills/skills/caveman-help/SKILL.md
vitya 9f54068de0 feat: migrate 12 personal skills + add build/install scripts
- skills/: editable sources for all 12 personal skills (caveman family,
  find-skills, project-bootstrap, task-status-wiki, using-context7,
  using-markitdown, wiki-maintainer, compress)
- dist/: built .skill archives, committed (cross-machine deploy without
  needing zip on the target)
- scripts/build.sh + build.ps1: zip skills/<name>/ into dist/<name>.skill;
  Windows fallback uses .NET ZipArchive (PS 5.1 Compress-Archive writes
  backslashes that break extraction on *nix)
- scripts/install.sh: copy skills/<name>/ into ~/.claude/skills/<name>/
  ($CLAUDE_SKILLS_DIR overrides target)
- .wiki/source/repo-layout.md, build-notes.md: design + gotchas
- .gitignore: keep dist/ tracked

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-28 10:42:33 +03:00

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caveman-help Quick-reference card for all caveman modes, skills, and commands. One-shot display, not a persistent mode. Trigger: /caveman-help, "caveman help", "what caveman commands", "how do I use caveman".

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.

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