Compress
Smart token optimization for your Claude workspace files. Compresses verbose CLAUDE.md files, todos, and preferences into caveman-speak while preserving every code block, URL, and technical term exactly as written. Creates a .original.md backup before overwriting, so you can always recover the human-readable version. The compression is aggressive on natural language but treats anything in backticks as sacred. Worth running on bloated memory files that are eating your context window. Works through a Python CLI that validates output and retries on failures.
- skills.sh installs
- 45.8K
- GitHub stars
- 118.7K
- last updated
- Aug 21, 2026
Install
$ npx -y skills add juliusbrussee/caveman --skill compress --agent claude-codeInstalls into .claude/skills of the current project.
Files
Smart token optimization for your Claude workspace files. Compresses verbose CLAUDE.md files, todos, and preferences into caveman-speak while preserving every code block, URL, and technical term exactly as written. Creates a .original.md backup before overwriting, so you can always recover the human-readable version. The compression is aggressive on natural language but treats anything in backticks as sacred. Worth running on bloated memory files that are eating your context window. Works through a Python CLI that validates output and retries on failures.
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- github.com/juliusbrussee/caveman
- Categories
- Code Review & Quality, Release Management
- First seen
- Apr 16, 2026
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