Caveman Help

by JuliusBrussee

Caveman Help is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by JuliusBrussee in caveman.

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Install Caveman Help

Copy Caveman Help 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-help ~/.claude/skills/caveman-help

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-help/SKILL.md in JuliusBrussee/caveman
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/caveman-help
Collection: One of 20 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Caveman Help does

Caveman Help displays a quick-reference card for all caveman modes, skills, and commands. Use it to recall trigger phrases and configuration options without changing the active mode.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

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

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

Commands Caveman Help provides

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

/caveman
/caveman-commit
/caveman-review
/caveman-compress
/caveman-help

Frequently asked about Caveman Help

What else does JuliusBrussee publish alongside Caveman Help?
Caveman Help is one of 20 skills that DirSkills catalogs from JuliusBrussee/caveman, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Cavecrew, Caveman and Caveman Commit. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Caveman Help 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 Help compare to other Writing skills?
Caveman Help ranks #9 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 Help against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.