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

Full docs: https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman

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Output Report

After all main skill tasks complete, write a propose draft to the wiki.

Steps

1. Build the filename:

• Format: DDMMYY-<ten>.md
• DDMMYY = today (e.g., 020626 for 2 June 2026)
• <ten> = 2–4 kebab-case words summarising what was done (e.g., landing-page-coteccons, brand-kit-fintech, ingest-auth-spec)

2. Write llmwiki/wiki/draft/cave/DDMMYY-<ten>.md:

# DDMMYY-<ten>
**Type:** draft
**Status:** proposed
**Tags:** <skill-name>, output-report
**Proposed:** YYYY-MM-DD

## What
<One sentence — what this skill invocation produced or decided>

## Output
<Key artefacts, files created/modified, or decisions made>

## Files
| File | Action |
|------|--------|
| `path/to/file` | created / modified |

## Notes
- Invoked via: `/<skill-name>` skill

## Origin
- **Draft:** `wiki/draft/cave/DDMMYY-<ten>.md`
- **Commit:** _(filled by verify-before-commit)_
- **Date promoted:** _(filled by verify-before-commit)_

3. Update wiki index & log:

• llmwiki/wiki/index.md — append one row: | [DDMMYY-<ten>](draft/cave/DDMMYY-<ten>.md) | draft | YYYY-MM-DD |
• llmwiki/wiki/log.md — append: ## YYYY-MM-DD — <skill-name> — <ten>

Skip only when the skill produces zero artefacts and zero decisions (e.g., a pure display mode like /caveman-stats).