Caveman Init — Development skill for Claude Code
Drop the always-on caveman activation rule into the current repo for every IDE agent.
How to install Caveman Init
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/andersondelmondes-claude.ai-caveman-caveman-init/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/andersondelmondes-claude.ai-caveman-caveman-init && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/andersondelmondes/Claude.AI-Caveman/HEAD/commands/caveman-init.md -o ~/.claude/skills/andersondelmondes-claude.ai-caveman-caveman-init/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Caveman Init does
description: Drop the always-on caveman activation rule into the current repo for every IDE agent argument-hint: "[--dry-run|--force] [--only ]"
Write the per-repo caveman rule files (Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Copilot, AGENTS.md) into the current repo, then report the result.
How to run the init script — pick the first that applies:
- If
src/tools/caveman-init.jsexists in the current repo (you are inside a caveman checkout), run:node src/tools/caveman-init.js $ARGUMENTS2
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