/caveman-help
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".
$ npx -y skills add stevesolun/ctx --skill caveman-help --agent claude-codeHow it fires
How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.
- Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
- Slash command
/caveman-help
Context preview
The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.
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".
SKILL.md
caveman-help.SKILL.mdname: caveman-help
description: >
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".
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. Add guard.` | | **caveman-compress** | `/caveman-compress <file>` | Compress .md files to caveman prose. Saves ~46% input tokens. | | **caveman-help** | `/caveman-help` | This card. |
Deactivate
Say "stop caveman" or "normal mode". Resume anytime with `/caveman`.
Configure Default Mode
Default mode = `full`. Change it:
**Environment variable** (highest priority):
export CAVEMAN_DEFAULT_MODE=ultra
**Config file** (`~/.config/caveman/config.json`):
{ "defaultMode": "lite" }Set `"off"` to disable auto-activation on session start. User can still activate manually with `/caveman`.
Resolution: env var > config file > `full`.
More
Full docs: https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman
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name: caveman-help description: > 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".
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. Add guard.` | | **caveman-compress** | `/caveman-compress <file>` | Compress .md files to caveman prose. Saves ~46% input tokens. | | **caveman-help** | `/caveman-help` | This card. |
Deactivate
Say "stop caveman" or "normal mode". Resume anytime with `/caveman`.
Configure Default Mode
Default mode = `full`. Change it:
**Environment variable** (highest priority):
export CAVEMAN_DEFAULT_MODE=ultra
**Config file** (`~/.config/caveman/config.json`):
{ "defaultMode": "lite" }Set `"off"` to disable auto-activation on session start. User can still activate manually with `/caveman`.
Resolution: env var > config file > `full`.
More
Full docs: https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman
ctx is a Python CLI and library that recommends a small, relevant set of skills, agents, and MCP servers for a repository or task. It can use your organization's local/private knowledge or the shipped graph.
Repo: stevesolun/ctx
Other skills on stevesolun-ctx.
- /ctx-dispatch
Coordinate nontrivial work in the ctx repository when a task has independent investigation, implementation, or test lanes; compute-heavy checks; or repetitive changes suited to scripts or codemods. Use for decomposition and concurrency decisions, not simple edits or questions.
Open skill - /ctx-verify
Select proportional validation for changes or reviews in the ctx repository. Use before handing off material code, workflow, migration, documentation, security, packaging, or release changes; before a PR; or when asked whether a change is adequately tested. Do not use for pure
Open skill - /agents-md-protocol
Create or review an AGENTS.md file so coding agents get stable repo-local instructions: environment setup, testing, style, security boundaries, PR policy, and handoff rules. Use when a repo lacks durable agent guidance or when a custom harness needs a predictable context file.
Open skill - /cavecrew
Decision guide for delegating to caveman-style subagents. Tells the main thread WHEN to spawn `cavecrew-investigator` (locate code), `cavecrew-builder` (1-2 file edit), or `cavecrew-reviewer` (diff review) instead of doing the work inline or using vanilla `Explore`. Subagent
Open skill - /caveman-commit
Ultra-compressed commit message generator. Cuts noise from commit messages while preserving intent and reasoning. Conventional Commits format. Subject ≤50 chars, body only when "why" isn't obvious. Use when user says "write a commit", "commit message", "generate commit",
Open skill - /caveman-compress
Compress natural language memory files (CLAUDE.md, todos, preferences) into caveman format to save input tokens. Preserves all technical substance, code, URLs, and structure. Compressed version overwrites the original file. Human-readable backup saved as FILE.original.md.
Open skill