# caveman-help

> Claude/Codex skill by [@juliusbrussee](https://omgskills.com/library/juliusbrussee/index.md) · 95k stars · Updated 2026-07-26

Quick-reference card for all caveman modes, skills, and commands. One-shot display, not a persistent mode. Trigger: /caveman-help, "caveman help", "what caveman commands", "how do I use caveman".

Tags: ai, anthropic, caveman, claude, claude-code, llm, meme, prompt-engineering, skill, tokens

## Install

```sh
git clone https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman /tmp/caveman && ln -s /tmp/caveman/skills/caveman-help ~/.claude/skills/caveman-help
```

## From README

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 | Skill | Trigger | What it do | |-------|---------|-----------| | caveman-commit | /caveman-commit | Terse commit messages. Conventional Commits. ≤50 char subject. | | caveman-review | /caveman-review | One-line PR comments: L42: bug: user null.

## Links

- HTML page: https://omgskills.com/skills/juliusbrussee/caveman/caveman-help/
- GitHub: https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman
- Author: [@juliusbrussee](https://omgskills.com/library/juliusbrussee/index.md)

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