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caveman

Token savings for agent users

WHO USES ITSolo developer · Team manager

For developers

Cuts an agent's token use by stripping prompts down to bare words.

USE PACKAGE
START IN 5 MINUTES ↓
The 'Caveman Learn' report screen: saved-token figures and bars, a list of token sinks and a session-context-depth bar chart.
The 'Caveman Learn' report screen: saved-token figures and bars, a list of token sinks and a session-context-depth bar chart.

TESIGN TAKE

A skill for output and a proxy for input; admitting that savings vary by case is what makes it credible.

Activity and discovery evidence
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116,718 stars · checked on GitHub · 7-day +2 observed via GH Archive (as of )

RANKS All-time #20 AI #13 DEV TOOLS #5

AT A GLANCE

LICENSE
Apache-2.0
USAGE
Commercial use, redistribution OK. Keep notices; mark changes.
LANGUAGE
Go
PLATFORM
cli
ACTIVITY
last commit within 24 h () · latest release bin-v4.0.2 () · 52 releases
COMMUNITY
104 contributors · 142 open issues (incl. PRs) · made by: an individual
SOURCES
GitHub
OPEN SOURCE
YES
FIRST SEEN
CATEGORY
AI · DEV TOOLS

A summary, not legal advice.

WHY IT MATTERS

The longer an agent's replies, the more tokens and cost go with them. caveman is a Claude Code skill that strips the agent's replies down to bare words, so the same content comes back in far less text. The repository claims a 65% token reduction, but that figure is its own. Written in Go; the skill is MIT and the bundled proxy engine BSL-1.1.

BUILD FROM THIS

  • A setting that trims output tokens on repeat jobs with long replies
  • A cost experiment that measures the saving on the team's own tasks

WHO IT'S FOR

Solo developer
sees tokens leaking into long agent replies
Team manager
measures, then trims, token cost on repeat jobs

START IN 5 MINUTES

# Skill (MIT):
$ npx skills add JuliusBrussee/caveman
# Proxy (Node.js 22.13+):
$ npm install -g @caveman-ai/cli && caveman setup --install
$ caveman claude

CAVEATS

  • The skill only shortens output, and its rules cost 1 to 1.5k input tokens per turn
  • On already-terse work it can cost more, as the README says
  • The skill is MIT; the proxy engine is BSL-1.1 (hosting for others needs a licence)

RECEIPT

FIRST SEEN
AT SOURCE
KEPT
CREATED → FIRST SEEN
161d
WHEN FIRST SEEN
105,284 ★
SOURCES
GitHub

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TIMELINE

  1. Repository created
  2. FIRST SEEN BY TESIGN