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#

ModeTriggerWhat changeLite/caveman liteDrop filler. Keep sentence structure.Full/cavemanDrop articles, filler, pleasantries, hedging. Fragments OK. Default.Ultra/caveman ultraExtreme compression. Bare fragments. Tables over prose.Wenyan-Lite/caveman wenyan-liteClassical Chinese style, light compression.Wenyan-Full/caveman wenyanFull 文言文. Maximum classical terseness.Wenyan-Ultra/caveman wenyan-ultraExtreme. Ancient scholar on a budget.

Mode stick until changed or session end.

Skills#

SkillTriggerWhat it docaveman-commit/caveman-commitTerse commit messages. Conventional Commits. ≤50 char subject.caveman-review/caveman-reviewOne-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-helpThis card.

Deactivate#

Say "stop caveman" or "normal mode". Resume anytime with /caveman.

Configure Default Mode#

Default mode = full. Change it:

Environment variable (highest priority):

bash

export CAVEMAN_DEFAULT_MODE=ultra

Config file ( ~/.config/caveman/config.json):

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