Caveman Commit

by JuliusBrussee

Caveman Commit is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by JuliusBrussee in caveman.

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Install Caveman Commit

Copy Caveman Commit 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/JuliusBrussee/caveman/tree/main/skills/caveman-commit ~/.claude/skills/caveman-commit

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/JuliusBrussee/caveman.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/caveman-commit/SKILL.md in JuliusBrussee/caveman
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/caveman-commit
Collection: One of 20 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Caveman Commit does

Caveman Commit generates concise Conventional Commits messages that cut noise while preserving intent and reasoning. Use it when asked to write a commit message or when staging changes.

Caveman Commit is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Caveman Commit comes from a repository tagged ai, anthropic, caveman, claude and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Write commit messages terse and exact. Conventional Commits format. No fluff. Why over what.

Rules

Subject line:

<type>(<scope>): <imperative summary> — <scope> optional
Types: feat, fix, refactor, perf, docs, test, chore, build, ci, style, revert
Imperative mood: "add", "fix", "remove" — not "added", "adds", "adding"
≤50 chars when possible, hard cap 72
No trailing period
Match project convention for capitalization after the colon

Body (only if needed):

Skip entirely when subject is self-explanatory
Add body only for: non-obvious why, breaking changes, migration notes, linked issues
Wrap at 72 chars
Bullets - not *
Reference issues/PRs at end: Closes #42, Refs #17

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

Frequently asked about Caveman Commit

What else does JuliusBrussee publish alongside Caveman Commit?
Caveman Commit is one of 20 skills that DirSkills catalogs from JuliusBrussee/caveman, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Cavecrew, Caveman and Caveman Compress. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Caveman Commit does, and is maintained by JuliusBrussee in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the JuliusBrussee/caveman page.
How does Caveman Commit compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Caveman Commit ranks #32 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 Commit against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.