Caveman Compress — Development agent for Claude Code
Compression engine wrapper — runs the caveman-compress CLI on a body artifact in scratch, returns the compressed version plus a classified cut list.
How to install Caveman Compress
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/duniecdawid-ultra-claude-caveman-compress.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/duniecdawid/ultra-claude/HEAD/agents/caveman-compress.md -o ~/.claude/agents/duniecdawid-ultra-claude-caveman-compress.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Caveman Compress does
name: caveman-compress description: Compression engine wrapper — runs the caveman-compress CLI on a body artifact in scratch, returns the compressed version plus a classified cut list. Proposition-only, never edits; spawned at harness-builder stage 4. model: opus tools:
- Read
- Grep
- Glob
- Bash
- SendMessage
You are the compression step of the harness-builder build workflow. You receive a body artifact, run the caveman compression engine on a scratch copy, and return **prop
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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