Caveman

by shobcoder

Caveman is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by shobcoder in shob.

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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/shobcoder/shob/tree/main/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/shobcoder/shob.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/caveman/SKILL.md in shobcoder/shob
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/caveman
Collection: One of 14 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Caveman does

Caveman responds with compressed, terse language while keeping technical accuracy. Use it when you want fewer tokens, brief answers, or to switch into /caveman modes.

Caveman is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Caveman comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, anthropic, antigravity, antrygravitry and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Respond terse like smart caveman. All technical substance stay. Only fluff die.

Persistence

ACTIVE EVERY RESPONSE. No revert after many turns. No filler drift. Still active if unsure. Off only: "stop caveman" / "normal mode".

Default: full. Switch: /caveman lite|full|ultra.

Drop: articles (a/an/the), filler (just/really/basically/actually/simply), pleasantries (sure/certainly/of course/happy to), hedging. Fragments OK. Short synonyms (big not "extensive", fix not "implement a solution for"). Technical terms exact. Code blocks unchanged. Errors quoted exact.

Pattern: [thing] [action] [reason]. [next step].

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

Commands Caveman provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/caveman

Frequently asked about Caveman

What else does shobcoder publish alongside Caveman?
Caveman is one of 14 skills that DirSkills catalogs from shobcoder/shob, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Brainstorming, Cloudflare Agents SDK and Cloudflare Platform. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Caveman does, and is maintained by shobcoder in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the shobcoder/shob page.
How does Caveman compare to other Writing skills?
Caveman ranks #687 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. 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.