# caveman

Ultra-compressed output mode: drop articles, filler and pleasantries, keep the technical substance exact.

## What it does

Switches the agent into a terse register — no articles, no hedging, no pleasantries, fragments allowed, arrows for causality — while leaving technical terms, code blocks and quoted error strings untouched. The mode is *sticky*: once turned on it stays on for every subsequent response until the user says "stop caveman" or "normal mode", rather than decaying back to normal prose after a few turns.

It carries one built-in escape hatch. Security warnings, confirmations for irreversible actions, multi-step sequences where fragment order could be misread, and any request to clarify are answered in normal prose, then the compressed register resumes.

## Hand-invoked only

`SKILL.md` sets `disable-model-invocation: true`. This is the single most important thing to know about this skill: **the model cannot route to it.** No other skill can hand off to it, and no phrasing in a user's request will cause it to be selected automatically. The only way in is the human typing `/caveman`.

That is deliberate — output style is the user's choice, not an inference the router should make on their behalf. It is also why the description reads as one plain human-facing sentence rather than carrying the trigger phrasing and boundary clause a routable skill needs.

## Usage

```text
/caveman
```

Then keep working normally. To leave the mode, say "stop caveman" or "normal mode".

## Files

| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | The whole skill — persistence rule, compression rules, worked examples, and the auto-clarity exception |