caveman-help

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Quick-reference card for caveman modes, skills and commands. Trigger: /caveman-help or "caveman help".

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Quick-reference card for caveman modes, skills, and commands with one-shot display.

Six modes available: Lite, Full (default), Ultra, Wenyan-Lite, Wenyan-Full, and Wenyan-Ultra, each progressively compressing output from light article-dropping to extreme classical Chinese terseness
Four skills included: caveman-commit for terse conventional commits, caveman-review for one-line PR feedback, caveman-compress for markdown token reduction, and caveman-help for this reference
Modes persist until changed or session end; deactivate with "stop caveman" or "normal mode"
Default mode configurable via environment variable or config file at ~/.config/caveman/config.json

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---
name: caveman-help
description: >
  Quick-reference card for caveman modes, skills and commands.
  Trigger: /caveman-help or "caveman help".
---

# 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`.

## Language

Keep user's language by default — reply in the language user writes, never switch regardless of example text or multilingual context elsewhere. Compress the style, not the language. Technical terms, code, commands, commit types, and exact error strings stay verbatim unless user ask for translation.

## Configure Default Mode

Default mode = `full`. Change it:

**Environment variable** (highest priority):
```bash
export CAVEMAN_DEFAULT_MODE=ultra
```

**Config file** (`~/.config/caveman/config.json`):
```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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