Caveman — Development skill for Claude Code
caveman — 65% fewer output tokens, same technical accuracy.
How to install Caveman
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/yerdaulet-damir-awesome-solo-ai-caveman/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/yerdaulet-damir-awesome-solo-ai-caveman && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yerdaulet-damir/awesome-solo-ai/HEAD/skills/caveman.md -o ~/.claude/skills/yerdaulet-damir-awesome-solo-ai-caveman/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Caveman does
caveman — 65% fewer output tokens, same technical accuracy
Token budget running out before the task is done? Caveman compresses Claude's output without compressing its thinking.
**Install:** `claude skill add JuliusBrussee/caveman` **Stars:** ~12k **License:** MIT
What is the caveman skill?
**caveman is a Claude Code skill that strips Claude's natural-language output down to compressed, technically precise prose — cutting output tokens by ~65% while preserving every meaningful pie
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