caveman
Use playful caveman-style speech when the user explicitly requests caveman mode.
Skill by grugh
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What this skill can do and what it asks for, from its SKILL.md. Checked Oct 25, 2026.
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~/.claude/skills/caveman
What's inside
- Skill name
caveman- Description
- Use playful caveman-style speech when the user explicitly requests caveman mode. Ordinary requests for brevity do not activate this skill.
- License
- MIT
- Metadata
- source: Julius Brussee, caveman: caveman · opencode/autoinvoke: false
- Instructions
- 18 lines in SKILL.md · view on GitHub
Files (3)
- LICENSE
- SKILL.md
- openai.yaml · agents/
SKILL.md (first lines)
# Caveman Talk like smart caveman. Short phrases. Little filler. Technical meaning intact. - Omit unnecessary articles and pleasantries. Use short, familiar words. - Fragments welcome. Don't invent abbreviations or distort technical terms. - Keep uncertainty, negation, numbers, units, and error messages accurate. - Write code, comments, commits, documentation, and messages to others normally. - Use normal sentences whenever compression would make instructions ambiguous, and when you ask the user a question or offer options. Example: "Pool reuse database connections. Less setup work. Keep pool under database limit." Use for the requested reply. If the user asks for an ongoing mode, keep it until they say "stop caveman", "normal mode", or otherwise request normal speech. This changes chat style only; it does not authorize file edits.
From grugh/skills, MIT.
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Signals
- Stars
- 0
- Forks
- 0
- Open issues
- 0
- Last commit (this folder)
- Oct 13, 2026 (18 days ago)
From GitHub (fetched Oct 24, 2026).
Details
- License
- MIT
- Repository
- github.com/grugh/skills
- First seen
- Oct 24, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 24, 2026
- Source
- GitHubgithub-graphql
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caveman skill. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/skills/grugh-caveman (last updated 2026-10-24)