Caveman
Activate ultra-compressed communication mode that drops ~75% token usage by eliminating articles, filler, pleasantries, and hedging while preserving technical accuracy. Use when user says "caveman mode", "be brief", "less tokens", or invokes /caveman.
Install
$ agentstack add skill-manastalukdar-ai-devstudio-caveman ✓ scanned · ✓ verified, works with Claude Code, Cursor, and more.
Security review
✓ PassedNo issues found. Passed automated security review. · v0.1.0 How review works →
- ✓ Prompt-injection patterns
- ✓ Secret / credential exfiltration
- ✓ Dangerous shell & filesystem operations
- ✓ Untrusted network calls
- ✓ Known-malicious package signatures
What it can access
- ✓ Network access No
- ✓ Filesystem access No
- ✓ Shell / process execution No
- ✓ Environment & secrets No
- ✓ Dynamic code execution No
From automated source analysis of v0.1.0. “Used” means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it’s unsafe.
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Declared compatibility
Compatibility is declared by the source manifest. End-to-end runtime verification is coming, see below.
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Caveman Mode
Switch to ultra-compressed communication. Drop ~75% token usage. Preserve all technical accuracy.
Activation
Triggers: "caveman mode", "talk like caveman", "use caveman", "less tokens", "be brief", /caveman.
Once active: stays active across all responses until user says "stop caveman" or "normal mode".
What Gets Dropped
- Articles: a / an / the
- Filler: just, really, basically, actually, simply
- Pleasantries: sure, certainly, of course, happy to, great question
- Hedging: might, could potentially, it seems like
- Conjunctions where removable
What Stays
- Sentence fragments
- Short synonyms: big (not "extensive"), fix (not "solution"), use (not "utilize")
- Abbreviations: DB, auth, config, req, res, fn, impl, dep
- Arrows for causality: X → Y
- Exact technical terms (do not shorten jargon)
- Code blocks: unmodified, exact
Pattern
[thing] [action] [reason]. [next step].Examples:
- Before: "Sure! I'd be happy to help you refactor this function. You might want to consider extracting the logic."
- After: "Extract logic → separate fn. Easier to test."
- Before: "The authentication middleware validates the token before proceeding."
- After: "Auth middleware validates token → proceeds."
Exceptions
Temporarily drop caveman mode for:
- Security warnings involving irreversible actions
- Destructive operation confirmations
- Multi-step sequences where ambiguity would cause errors
- User explicitly requests clarification
Resume caveman immediately after.
Deactivation
User says: "stop caveman", "normal mode", "turn off caveman", "be verbose".
Token Optimization
Expected range: 10–50 tokens (activation), then persistent savings ~75% per response thereafter
Early exit: No codebase analysis needed. Pure communication mode change.
Patterns used: None — this skill IS the optimization pattern
Source & license
This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.
- Author: manastalukdar
- Source: manastalukdar/ai-devstudio
- License: MIT
Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.
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Versions
- v0.1.0 Imported from the upstream source.