Caveman HelpSAFE
🪨 why use many token when few token do trick. Viral skill + proxy for coding agents that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like a caveman.
Overview
From the repository's own README, as read at the audited commit. Badges and raw HTML are left out.
Quick-reference card. One shot, no mode change.
What it does
Prints a cheat sheet of all caveman modes, sibling skills, deactivation triggers, and how to set the default mode via env var or config file. One-shot display — does not flip the active mode, write flag files, or persist anything. Use when you forget the slash commands.
How to invoke
/caveman-help
Also triggers on "caveman help", "what caveman commands", "how do I use caveman".
Example output
Modes: /caveman full (default) /caveman lite lighter /caveman ultra extreme /caveman wenyan classical Chinese Skills: /caveman-commit terse Conventional Commits /caveman-review one-line PR comments /caveman-stats session token savings Deactivate: "stop caveman" or "normal mode"
See also
SKILL.md— full reference card- Caveman README — repo overview
05e982541721OBSERVED · 2026-09-23What it tells the agent
The instruction file, verbatim from the audited commit — this is the text the model reads, and the surface the audit's instruction layer examines. Quoted here so you can judge it without cloning anything.
---
name: caveman-help
description: >
Quick-reference card for caveman modes, skills and commands.
Trigger: /caveman-help or "caveman help".
---
# 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
| Mode | Trigger | What change |
|------|---------|-------------|
| **Lite** | `/caveman lite` | Drop filler. Keep sentence structure. |
| **Full** | `/caveman` | Drop articles, filler, pleasantries, hedging. Fragments OK. Default. |
| **Ultra** | `/caveman ultra` | Extreme compression. Bare fragments. Tables over prose. |
| **Wenyan-Lite** | `/caveman wenyan-lite` | Classical Chinese style, light compression. |
| **Wenyan-Full** | `/caveman wenyan` | Full 文言文. Maximum classical terseness. |
| **Wenyan-Ultra** | `/caveman wenyan-ultra` | Extreme. Ancient scholar on a budget. |
Mode stick until changed or session end.
## Skills
| Skill | Trigger | What it do |
|-------|---------|-----------|
| **caveman-commit** | `/caveman-commit` | Terse commit messages. Conventional Commits. ≤50 char subject. |
| **caveman-review** | `/caveman-review` | One-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-help` | This card. |
## Deactivate
Say "stop caveman" or "normal mode". Resume anytime with `/caveman`.
## Language
Keep user's language by default — reply in the language user writes, never switch regardless of example text or multilingual context elsewhere. Compress the style, not the language. Technical terms, code, commands, commit types, and exact error strings stay verbatim unless user ask for translation.
## 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/cavemanTrust audit
SAFEgrade B · trust 89/100 Nothing in the source contradicts what it says it does. Grade A is reserved for packages that have also passed the behavioural sandbox.
| Layer | What it checks | Result |
|---|---|---|
| L0 | Provenance & inventory | PASS |
| L1 | Static analysis of the code | NA |
| L2 | Instruction surface (what it tells the agent) | PASS |
| L3 | Class-specific surface | PASS |
| L4 | Behavioural (sandbox) | SKIPPED |
What the source does
- Filesystem
- none-observed
- Network
- none-observed
- Shell
- none-observed
- Dependencies
- pinned
- Secrets in source
- none-found
Findings (0)
No findings outside the package's declared scope.
Gates applied: no_behavioural_pass.
05e982541721full audit observations/trust-audit/skill/juliusbrussee__caveman-help.json · Report an issue / request a re-scanAudit history
Every audit this skill has had.
| Date | Source | Verdict | Grade | Score | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-23 | 05e982541721 | SAFE | B | 89 | first audit |
Questions
What does the Caveman Help skill do?
🪨 why use many token when few token do trick. Viral skill + proxy for coding agents that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like a caveman.
Is Caveman Help safe to install?
The audit found nothing in the source that contradicts what it says it does, and graded it B (89/100). Grade A is held back for packages that have also passed a sandboxed behavioural run, which is why a clean skill reads B.
What can Caveman Help access on my machine?
The audit observed no filesystem, network or shell use at all in its source.
How current is this page?
The grade is for one exact copy of the source (05e982541721), read on 2026-09-23. The repository is watched, and a new audit runs when it changes — this is the first audit.