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