pandora/web/.agents/skills/caveman

caveman

Talk like smart caveman. Same brain, fewer tokens.

What it does

Compress model responses to caveman-style prose by dropping articles, filler, pleasantries, and hedging. Instruction preserves technical detail, code blocks, error strings, and symbols. Result depends on model and workload; no aggregate reduction or quality-equivalence claim is published, and mode persists until changed or stopped.

Six intensity levels:

Level	What change
lite	Drop filler/hedging. Sentences stay full. Professional but tight.
full	Default. Drop articles, fragments OK, short synonyms.
ultra	Bare fragments. Abbreviations (DB, auth, fn). Arrows for causality.
wenyan-lite	Classical Chinese register, light compression.
wenyan-full	Maximum 文言文 compression.
wenyan-ultra	Extreme classical compression.

Auto-clarity rule: caveman drops to normal prose for security warnings, irreversible-action confirmations, multi-step sequences where fragment ambiguity risks misread, and when user repeats a question. Resumes after the clear part.

How to invoke

/caveman              # full mode (default)
/caveman lite         # lighter compression
/caveman ultra        # extreme compression
/caveman wenyan       # classical Chinese
stop caveman          # back to normal prose

Example output

Question: "Why does my React component re-render?"

Normal prose:

Your component re-renders because you create a new object reference each render. Wrapping it in useMemo will fix the issue.

Caveman (full):

New object ref each render. Inline object prop = new ref = re-render. Wrap in useMemo.

Caveman (ultra):

Inline obj prop → new ref → re-render. useMemo.

See also

• SKILL.md: full LLM-facing instructions
• Caveman README: repo overview, install, benchmarks