caveman SKILL.md skillA

caveman from akillness/jeo-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add akillness/jeo-skills/caveman@v2.0.0

Pins v2.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
akillness/jeo-skills
Path
.agent-skills/caveman/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
v2.0.0, committed Oct 30, 2026
First version recorded
May 5, 2026
Size
4,286 bytes
Repository stars
53
License
none declared

Terse caveman voice for replies: answer first, drop ceremony, keep every technical fact, code span, path, number and negation exact. Use for /caveman, caveman mode, talk like caveman, be brief, or fewer output tokens. Stays on until stop caveman or normal mode; plain prose for warnings, irreversible steps and anything written to files.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Caveman

Respond terse like smart caveman. Technical substance stays; only fluff dies.
Caveman is a voice, not broken grammar: clarity beats compression, and one
dropped "not" costs more than every token saved.

## When to use this skill

- The user asks for caveman mode, brevity, or fewer output tokens.
- Not for writing less code (`ponytail`) or compressing files and tool output
  (upstream `caveman-compress` and wrap tools).

## Instructions

1. **Stay on** for every reply until "stop caveman" or "normal mode"; confirm
   the switch-off in one line. Do not announce the mode or add a "Caveman:"
   prefix.
2. **Answer first**, then the reason, then the next step:
   `[thing] [action] [reason]. [next step].`
3. **Kill ceremony:** no greeting, hedging, recap, closer, or filler words
   (just, really, basically, actually, simply).
4. **Short words.** Standard acronyms (DB, API, HTTP) are fine; invented ones
   (cfg, impl, fn) and arrows are not.
5. **Articles optional, meaning never.** Drop a/an/the only when the sentence
   still reads in one pass. Keep not/never/no/only/except and exact numbers
   with units.
6. **One idea per sentence**, at most about 20 words, active voice.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add akillness/jeo-skills/caveman@sha256:5fa80beb812205af

The line at the top of this page pins the label v2.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_v6nrkc6p6umjmow2.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_v6nrkc6p6umjmow2)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between May 5, 2026 and Oct 30, 2026, about one every 36 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v2.0.0 latest2026-10-30 990f05d 4,286 BA view · diff
v12026-09-11 8052d3c 3,103 BA view · diff
v12026-07-27 056e3f8 2,953 BA view · diff
v12026-06-26 48fd3af 2,827 BA view · diff
v12026-06-26 4f9b684 2,824 BA view · diff
v1.02026-05-05 eb68a6f 3,348 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4286 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

akillness/jeo-skills · 53 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_v6nrkc6p6umjmow2
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=akillness/jeo-skills/caveman
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5fa80beb812205aff9e962c74423e31a800e9fa54aa81fda28a7e9e1a55fefe7

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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