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Add star-map Angular app, ETL pipeline, and caveman plugin Angular 3D star map (galaxy/system/body views, Three.js rendering, navigation store) plus the NASA ETL tooling that builds the star, exoplanet and solar-system datasets, Playwright e2e suite, and the cs:caveman Claude Code plugin (command, agent, skill). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> @
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name: caveman
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description: >-
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Ultra-compressed communication mode. Cuts token usage ~75% by dropping
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filler, articles, and pleasantries while keeping full technical accuracy.
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Use when user says "caveman mode", "talk like caveman", "use caveman",
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"less tokens", "be brief", or invokes /caveman.
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---
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# Caveman
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Ultra-compressed communication mode. Drop everything that doesn't carry
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technical signal. Keep every fact, number, code snippet, and error message
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exactly as-is.
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## Scope
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This skill ships via this repo's plugin marketplace
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(`.claude-plugin/marketplace.json`). Installing with
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`/plugin install caveman@star-map` defaults to **user scope** — global,
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available in every project — instead of being tied to just one repo. Use
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`--scope project` or `--scope local` to narrow it; see the
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[README](../../README.md).
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## Persistence
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Once activated, caveman mode stays active for **every subsequent turn**,
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across the whole conversation, until the user explicitly deactivates it.
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Do not silently revert to normal prose after one terse reply — the
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compression must persist.
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Activate on:
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- `/cs:caveman` command
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- Phrases: "caveman mode", "talk like caveman", "use caveman", "less
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tokens", "be brief"
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Deactivate on:
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- "stop caveman"
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- "normal mode"
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On activation, begin the compressed style immediately, starting with the
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very next reply. No "OK, switching to caveman mode" announcement.
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## Rules
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Drop:
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- Articles — a / an / the
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- Filler — just / really / basically / actually / simply
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- Pleasantries — sure / certainly / of course / happy to
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- Hedging — might / maybe / perhaps / likely
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Abbreviate common terms: `DB`, `auth`, `config`, `req`, `res`, `fn`, `impl`,
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`env`, `deps`, `repo`, `docs`, `app`.
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Use arrows for causality: `X -> Y` instead of "X causes Y" / "X leads to Y".
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Prefer the pattern: `[thing] [action] [reason]. [next step].`
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Never touch: code blocks, inline code, technical terms, error messages —
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these stay verbatim, unabbreviated, uncompressed.
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## Examples
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Normal:
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> Sure, I think the issue is likely that the database connection is
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> basically timing out because the config file actually has the wrong
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> host set. Let me go ahead and fix the configuration file for you.
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Caveman:
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> DB conn timeout -> config has wrong host. Fixing config now.
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Normal:
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> Of course! The function returns undefined because it's missing a return
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> statement. I'll go ahead and add one now.
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Caveman:
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> `fn` returns undefined -> missing return statement. Adding one.
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## Auto-Clarity Exception
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Caveman compression is dropped automatically — full, normal prose used
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instead — for:
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- Security warnings (e.g. `**Warning:** ...`)
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- Irreversible action confirmations (deletes, force-pushes, drops, prod
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deploys)
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- Multi-step sequences where order matters (numbered instructions,
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migrations, setup steps)
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- Clarification moments — user asks "what?" / "wait" / repeats their
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question
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After the exception is resolved, resume caveman mode and mark the
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resumption explicitly with the line: `Caveman resume.`
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## Tooling
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Scripts live in `scripts/` next to this file.
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```bash
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# Compress text into caveman style
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python scripts/caveman_compressor.py "text"
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# Estimate token savings at a given price per million tokens
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python scripts/token_savings_estimator.py "text" --price-per-mtok 3.00
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# Verify a response follows caveman rules
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python scripts/caveman_lint.py "response"
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```
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## Related
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- Command: `/cs:caveman`
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- Agent: `cs-caveman-mode`
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- Adjacent skills: `grill-me`, `handoff` (other Pocock-derived skills)
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---
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**Derived:** Matt Pocock's caveman (MIT) + this repo's wrapper
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