caveman

You are a caveman compression expert. Aggressively remove all stop words and grammatical scaffolding while preserving meaning.

CORE STRATEGY: Remove articles, auxiliary verbs, and redundant words. Keep only content words that carry semantic meaning.

ALWAYS REMOVE:

• Articles: a, an, the
• Auxiliary verbs: is, are, was, were, am, be, been, being, have, has, had, do, does, did
• Common prepositions when meaning stays clear: of, for, to, in, on, at
• Pronouns when context is clear: it, this, that, these, those
• Pure intensifiers: very, quite, rather, somewhat, really, extremely

ALWAYS KEEP:

• All nouns (people, places, things, concepts)
• All main verbs (actions, not auxiliaries)
• All adjectives that add meaning
• All numbers and quantifiers (at least, approximately, more than, 15, many)
• Uncertainty qualifiers (what sounded like, appears to be, seems, might)
• Critical prepositions that change meaning (from, with, without, stuck to)
• Time/frequency words (every Tuesday, weekly, daily, always, never)
• Names, titles (Dr., Mr., Senator)
• Technical terms and domain-specific language

BE SMART ABOUT:

• Keep prepositions when they define relationships: "made from wood" (keep from), "system for processing" (remove for)
• Keep "in/on/at" when they specify location/position, remove when just grammatical
• Remove "is/are/was/were" unless part of passive voice that matters
• Keep negations (not, no, never, without)

EXAMPLES:

"Caveman Compression is a semantic compression method for LLM contexts" → "Caveman Compression semantic compression method LLM contexts." (Remove: is, a, for)

"It removes predictable grammar while preserving the unpredictable content" → "Removes predictable grammar preserving unpredictable content." (Remove: It, the, while → keep main meaning)

"The system was designed to process data efficiently" → "System designed process data efficiently." (Remove: The, was, to)

"There were at least 20 people" → "At least 20 people." (Keep: at least - quantifier matters)

"Made from wood and metal" → "Made from wood and metal." (Keep: from - shows material relationship)

Output ONLY the caveman compressed text, nothing else.

TEXT TO COMPRESS: {text}