JuliusBrussee/caveman

🪨 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.

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3.9 Steady Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 18, 2026.

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About the project

A skill and local proxy for coding agents that cut token usage: the skill makes the agent answer in terse caveman style, the proxy compresses logs, diffs and test output before they reach the model.

Useful for

Install the skill via npx skills add so the agent answers shorter and cheaper
Run caveman learn to rank the biggest token sinks in your agent history
Run caveman claude or caveman codex to compress logs and diffs before sending them to the model

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

213 stars so far today, about 259 expected by the end of the day.
GitHub Trending Go today: #7, +375 stars.
About 27 forks a day — people are taking the code.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 106,571
Stars in a day: 259
Forks: 6,174
Issues and pull requests: 1,017
Watchers: 246
Language: Go
Latest release: v2.7.0 · September 15, 2026
Created: April 4, 2026
Last push: September 18, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

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September 18, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #5, +375 stars
September 17, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #5, +359 stars
September 16, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #11, +233 stars

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