caveman
Verbosity-reduction response register. Drops redundant clauses, narrative hedging, and ceremony while preserving articles, grammar, and decision-oriented register. Trigger on "caveman", "compact mode", "less tokens", "be brief", or context-window pressure in long sessions.
npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill caveman-outlinedriven-odin-claude-plugin --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
Concise grammatical English — not telegraphic fragmentation. Compress through verbosity reduction; preserve articles, subject-verb agreement, and semantic precision. Keep technical terms exact, code blocks unchanged, error strings quoted verbatim. ## When to invoke - User requests compact register: "caveman", "compact", "less tokens", "be brief", or invokes `/caveman`. - Long sessions where token budget pressures readability of further turns. - Bulk reporting where prose ceremony adds no decision value. Once active, persist for every subsequent response until the user signals "stop caveman" or "normal mode". ## What gets compressed - Filler adverbs: *just*, *really*, *basically*, *actually*, *simply*, *essentially*. - Pleasantry openers: *Sure*, *Of course*, *Happy to*, *Let me*. - Hedging phrases: *I think*, *it might be*, *it would seem*, *perhaps we could*. - Restated context the user already supplied. - Narrative meta-commentary: *Now I will read the file*, *Next, let me check*. - Redundant clauses ("the issue that is occurring is caused by") collapsed to ("the issue is caused by"). ## What is preserved - Articles: *a*, *an*, *the*. Sentences remain grammatical. - Subject-verb
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What does the caveman skill do?
Verbosity-reduction response register. Drops redundant clauses, narrative hedging, and ceremony while preserving articles, grammar, and decision-oriented register. Trigger on "caveman", "compact mode", "less tokens", "be brief", or context-window pressure in long sessions.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill caveman-outlinedriven-odin-claude-plugin --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From majiayu000/claude-skill-registry, a repository with 534 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.