caveman-help

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.

Configure Default Mode

Default mode = full. Change it:

Environment variable (highest priority):

export CAVEMAN_DEFAULT_MODE=ultra

Config file (~/.config/caveman/config.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

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