Caveman Setup

by JuliusBrussee

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

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Install Caveman Setup

Copy Caveman Setup 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-setup ~/.claude/skills/caveman-setup

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

What Caveman Setup does

Caveman Setup wires the current repository through the Caveman Cloud gateway so every LLM request is measured — cost, tokens, latency — with zero behavior change. Use when the user wants LLM spend observability added to an app or says 'set up caveman'.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

You are wiring this repository through the Caveman gateway. Caveman is a byte-preserving LLM proxy: in record mode it measures what your app sends and what it costs, and changes nothing else. Your job is a minimal, verified integration — not a refactor.

The prompt that sent you here provides four values. Refer to them as:

GATEWAY — the gateway base URL (e.g. https://gateway.caveman.so or http://127.0.0.1:8787)
CAVE_API_KEY — the gateway auth secret (treat like any API key: env var only, never committed, never printed in full)
PROVIDER_KEYS — stored (provider keys live encrypted in Caveman Cloud) or byok (this app sends its own provider key per request)
DASHBOARD — the dashboard base URL (e.g. https://app.caveman.so)

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

Frequently asked about Caveman Setup

What else does JuliusBrussee publish alongside Caveman Setup?
Caveman Setup 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 Setup 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 Setup compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Caveman Setup ranks #37 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 Setup against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.