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Caveman Token Optimizer

aradotso/trending-skills

This strips the pleasantries and filler from Claude's responses to cut output tokens by 65-75% while keeping technical accuracy intact. It drops articles, hedging phrases, and conversational fluff but preserves code blocks, exact error messages, and technical terms verbatim. Three intensity levels from lite (just drop filler) to ultra (telegraphic fragments). The benchmarks are real: a React debugging response went from 1180 tokens to 159 tokens with the same fix. Install once with npx or the plugin system, toggle it per session with /caveman commands. Useful when you're burning through API costs on long coding sessions and don't need Claude to say "I'd be happy to help" before every answer.

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skills.sh installs: 768
GitHub stars: 61
last updated: Jul 14, 2026

Install

$ npx -y skills add aradotso/trending-skills --skill caveman-token-optimizer --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Caveman Token Optimizer

Skill by ara.so — Daily 2026 Skills collection.

A Claude Code skill and Codex plugin that makes AI agents respond in compressed caveman-speak — cutting ~65% of output tokens on average (up to 87%) while keeping full technical accuracy. No pleasantries. No filler. Just answer.

What It Does

Caveman mode strips:

Pleasantries: "Sure, I'd be happy to help!" → gone
Hedging: "It might be worth considering" → gone
Articles (a, an, the) → gone
Verbose transitions → gone

Caveman keeps:

All code blocks (written normally)
Technical terms (exact: useMemo, polymorphism, middleware)
Error messages (quoted exactly)
Git commits and PR descriptions (normal)

Same fix. 75% less word. Brain still big.

Install

Claude Code (npx)

npx skills add JuliusBrussee/caveman

Claude Code (plugin system)

claude plugin marketplace add JuliusBrussee/caveman
claude plugin install caveman@caveman

Codex

Clone the repo
Open Codex inside the repo
Run /plugins
Search Caveman
Install plugin

Install once. Works in all sessions after that.

SKILL.md on GitHub

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Details

Repository: github.com/aradotso/trending-skills
First seen: May 16, 2026

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