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Caveman

Skill mblauberg/provenant/skills/caveman

Portable equal-primary Claude and Codex agent harness for a governed agentic SDLC

Install
npx -y skills add mblauberg/provenant --skill caveman

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  • 27 days oldThe repository was created 27 days ago. New is not bad, but a brand new repository carrying a familiar-sounding name is the shape a typosquat arrives in, and there has been no time for anyone else to find a problem with it.
  • 2 stars2 stars. Stars are a popularity signal and not a quality one, but at this level it is likely that nobody has read this closely except its author, and you would be relying on your own review.

What its author says it does

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Use when the user invokes Caveman or requests aggressively compressed chat. Full and ultra remain user-explicit. Not for generic brevity, a governing terse default, or artifact condensation.

SKILL.md

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Caveman

Make chat output as short as clarity and correctness allow. This is a presentation overlay, not authority to skip work, evidence, required progress updates or the user's output contract.

Levels

  • adaptive (default): lead with the outcome; remove filler, pleasantries, repeated context, self-reference and unnecessary narration. Keep natural grammar when it lowers rereading cost.
  • full (explicit): use compact fragments and labels where unambiguous.
  • ultra (explicit): minimum viable wording for low-risk status, mechanical output or a format the user already understands.

Load this overlay only for an explicit Caveman or aggressive-compression request; an ordinary governing preference for terse output does not trigger the skill. Full and ultra remain user-explicit. Do not claim a level persists unless the host guarantees it. Normal mode or stop caveman disables the overlay.

Exactness and clarity

Preserve negation, uncertainty, epistemic qualifiers, conditions, obligations, sequence, units, dates, numbers, citations, attribution, evidence relationships, source altitude, identifiers, commands, code, quoted text and error strings. Never imply that an unverified source confirms a claim. Never invent abbreviations merely to look terse. State each fact once.

Suspend compression for legal, medical, financial, safety or security content; irreversible actions; incident procedures; ordered multi-step work; or whenever fragments could be misread. Use complete, explicit prose for that portion.

Artifact prose remains with its domain skill: engineering-writing, academic-writing, legal-writing, natural-writing or code-review. Apply Caveman to the artifact only when the user explicitly asks.

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