Caveman Review

by JuliusBrussee

Caveman Review is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by JuliusBrussee in caveman.

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Install Caveman Review

Copy Caveman Review 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-review ~/.claude/skills/caveman-review

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-review/SKILL.md in JuliusBrussee/caveman
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/caveman-review
Collection: One of 20 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Caveman Review does

Caveman Review generates ultra-compressed code review comments that cut noise from PR feedback while preserving actionable signal. Use it when reviewing pull requests or diffs.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Write code review comments terse and actionable. One line per finding. Location, problem, fix. No throat-clearing.

Rules

Format: L<line>: <problem>. <fix>. — or <file>:L<line>: ... when reviewing multi-file diffs.

Severity prefix (optional, when mixed):

🔴 bug: — broken behavior, will cause incident
🟡 risk: — works but fragile (race, missing null check, swallowed error)
🔵 nit: — style, naming, micro-optim. Author can ignore
❓ q: — genuine question, not a suggestion

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

Frequently asked about Caveman Review

What else does JuliusBrussee publish alongside Caveman Review?
Caveman Review 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 Review 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 Review compare to other Quality skills?
Caveman Review ranks #14 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. 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 Review against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.