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):

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/caveman