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caveman

Ultra-compressed communication mode that cuts output tokens while keeping technical accuracy. Levels: lite, full, ultra and the wenyan variants. Use for /caveman, "caveman mode", "talk like caveman", "be brief" or "less tokens".

79

0.94x
Quality

86%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

56%

0.94x

Average score across 2 eval scenarios

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

No findings from the security scan

The canonical home for this skill is caveman in JuliusBrussee/caveman

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Quality

Content

88%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

An exemplarily tight instruction skill: concrete per-level examples, explicit escalation/boundary rules, and zero filler or explanations of known concepts. Its only real weaknesses are a duplicated rule between the Rules prose and the ultra row, and a wall-of-prose Rules section that hurts scannability.

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Conciseness

The body is lean and assumes Claude's competence — rules are stated as terse imperatives with concrete examples and no concept explanations — but the invented-abbreviation and no-arrows rules appear twice (in Rules and again in the 'ultra' table row), and a few justifications could be trimmed, so it sits between efficient and every-token-earns-its-place.

4 / 5

Actionability

Fully concrete guidance: exact switch commands ('/caveman lite|full|ultra|...'), worked per-level examples for two scenarios (React re-render, connection pooling), a Not/Yes contrast pair, an exact pattern, and a full destructive-op warning example with SQL — an instruction-only skill whose guidance is copy-paste actionable.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A simple single-purpose style skill where the single action is unambiguous: default level, switching, persistence, when to drop the style (Auto-Clarity) and resume, boundaries for persisted artifacts, and revert commands are all explicitly sequenced; no destructive or batch operations are involved, so no validation cap applies.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized sections (Persistence, Rules, Intensity, Auto-Clarity, Boundaries) with a clear intensity table and no external references needed for a single-file skill, but the Rules section is one dense multi-topic paragraph that would benefit from being broken into subsections, leaving minor organization gaps.

4 / 5

Total

18

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20

Passed

Description

83%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A concise, third-person description that clearly states what the skill does and when to use it, with distinctive natural trigger phrases. Its only gaps are a thin list of concrete capabilities and a few missing brevity synonyms that slightly widen conflict risk.

Suggestions

Add one or two more concrete actions to the 'what' clause (e.g., 'compresses replies across six intensity levels including Classical Chinese wenyan variants') to strengthen capability coverage.

Include additional natural brevency synonyms such as 'be concise', 'terse', or 'shorter answers' in the trigger list to broaden match coverage.

Consider qualifying the generic triggers (e.g., 'be brief' only alongside a caveman/brevity-style mention) to reduce overlap with general conciseness skills.

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Specificity

Names the mechanism concretely — "cuts output tokens while keeping technical accuracy" — and enumerates the concrete levels ("lite, full, ultra and the wenyan variants"), but beyond the compression action itself it lists few discrete capabilities, sitting between the 1-2-action and several-action anchors.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ("Ultra-compressed communication mode that cuts output tokens while keeping technical accuracy") and when ("Use for /caveman, 'caveman mode', 'talk like caveman', 'be brief' or 'less tokens'") with concrete trigger phrases, matching the top anchor; not 4 because the 'when' is already fully explicit.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Strong natural phrases — "/caveman", "caveman mode", "talk like caveman", "be brief", "less tokens" — that users would plausibly say, though common variations like "be concise", "terse", or "shorter replies" are missing, so it falls just short of comprehensive coverage.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The caveman-specific triggers form a clear niche unlikely to fire the wrong skill, but the generic "be brief" and "less tokens" terms carry minor overlap risk with other brevity/conciseness skills, keeping it below the minimal-conflict anchor.

4 / 5

Total

17

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20

Passed

Validation

100%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

Repository
JuliusBrussee/caveman
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