{
  "slug": "caveman",
  "name": "caveman",
  "url": "https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman",
  "cat": "cost",
  "group": "claude",
  "tagline": "🪨 why use many token when few token do trick. Viral skill + proxy for coding agents that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like a caveman.",
  "price": "Free",
  "tier": "free",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "A skill that makes the agent respond in terse fragment style to cut output tokens, at four compression levels. Companion tools attack the input side: caveman-compress rewrites CLAUDE.md and memory files (~46% fewer input tokens), caveman-shrink wraps any MCP server with compressed tool descriptions. ~69k stars.",
  "why": "The caveman-compress and caveman-shrink utilities are the parts worth having — they save tokens without making the agent's prose unreadable.",
  "warn": "Headline claim is 75% output reduction; the repo's own 10-task benchmark reports 65% average with a 22–87% range. And terse fragment output is genuinely harder to review.",
  "install": "curl -fsSL .../install.sh | bash",
  "format": "text",
  "category": {
    "key": "cost",
    "name": "Cost & efficiency",
    "desc": "Same answers, fewer tokens. Measurement first, compression second.",
    "group": "claude",
    "groupName": "Claude Code toolkit"
  },
  "freshness": null,
  "health": {
    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": null,
    "checked_at": "2026-10-03T01:45:06.299+00:00"
  },
  "corrected_at": "2026-09-15T05:30:11.679+00:00",
  "upstream_changed_at": null
}