Caveman

by zhukunpenglinyutong

Caveman is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by zhukunpenglinyutong in desktop-cc-gui.

4K stars356 forkson zhukunpenglinyutong/desktop-cc-guiAdded 2026/08/20Repository updated 2026/08/20

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Install Caveman

Copy Caveman into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/zhukunpenglinyutong/desktop-cc-gui/tree/main/src-tauri/resources/curated-skills/caveman ~/.claude/skills/caveman

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/zhukunpenglinyutong/desktop-cc-gui.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: src-tauri/resources/curated-skills/caveman/SKILL.md in zhukunpenglinyutong/desktop-cc-gui
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/caveman
Collection: One of 13 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Caveman does

Caveman keeps technical substance while removing communication waste, defaulting to concise direct answers in AI coding tools. Use it for terse, low-token responses plus built-in code review and commit message patterns.

Caveman is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Caveman comes from a repository tagged ai-coding, claude-code, codex, deepseek-harness and desktop-app.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Caveman, concise communication mode

Keep technical substance. Remove communication waste. Default to concise, direct answers while preserving enough context for the user to act safely.

ACTIVE EVERY RESPONSE while this skill is enabled. Do not announce the mode or write a second normal answer explaining it. If the user says "stop caveman", "normal mode", or asks for a normal detailed answer, stop compressing for that conversation. The Settings switch remains the persistent client control.

Response rules

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Caveman

What else does zhukunpenglinyutong publish alongside Caveman?
Caveman is one of 13 skills that DirSkills catalogs from zhukunpenglinyutong/desktop-cc-gui, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Coss UI, Deploy to Vercel and Huashu Design. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Caveman does, and is maintained by zhukunpenglinyutong in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the zhukunpenglinyutong/desktop-cc-gui page.
How does Caveman compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Caveman ranks #530 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Caveman against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.