Caveman Skills - Setup Guide¶

Source: juliusbrussee/caveman (2.2M combined installs) GitHub: github.com/juliusbrussee/caveman Category: Code Quality / Agent Workflow First Seen: August 12, 2026 Quality Tier: 🟢 Production (seven skills above 250K installs)

Caveman is a blunt-instrument agent coding workflow: keep it simple, commit everything, compress the context, review with evidence. The flagship caveman skill alone has 431K installs, backed by a full toolchain - caveman-commit, caveman-review, caveman-compress, caveman-stats, and the multi-agent cavecrew.

Installation¶

# Install the full repo
npx skills add juliusbrussee/caveman

# Or install the core individually
npx skills add juliusbrussee/caveman --skill caveman
npx skills add juliusbrussee/caveman --skill caveman-commit
npx skills add juliusbrussee/caveman --skill caveman-review
npx skills add juliusbrussee/caveman --skill caveman-compress

Core Skills¶

Skill	Installs	Use For
`caveman`	431.1K	Main workflow - simple, direct coding loops
`caveman-commit`	303.1K	Disciplined commit cadence
`caveman-review`	301.0K	Evidence-based code review
`caveman-compress`	298.8K	Context compression between steps
`caveman-help`	293.1K	Self-help and usage discovery
`cavecrew`	250.6K	Multi-agent crew orchestration
`caveman-stats`	250.3K	Progress and usage statistics
`compress`	46.6K	General context compression utility

Smaller but useful additions: caveman-explore, caveman-optimize, investigate-first, verify-and-stop, caveman-learn, surgical-patch, safe-refactor, caveman-discover, lean-build, caveman-manage, caveman-evidence-review, caveman-setup, migration, plus caveman-es (Spanish) and caveman-cn (Chinese) localizations.

Prerequisites¶

Requirement	Details
Node.js + npx	For the skills.sh CLI install path
Git repo	Workflow is commit-centric
Any agent runtime	Skills are runtime-agnostic; Hermes/Claude Code-style agents work

CorpusIQ Use Cases¶

Use Case	How
Docs repo maintenance	`caveman-review` + `caveman-commit` for sweep-driven doc updates like this catalog
Context discipline	`caveman-compress` pattern matches the token-optimization doctrine for long agent sessions
Multi-agent builds	`cavecrew` when parallel workers need a shared coding protocol
Safe refactors	`surgical-patch` + `safe-refactor` for production repo edits

Integration with CorpusIQ¶

CorpusIQ is the connector layer that lets AI assistants read the systems a business already runs on - accounting, payments, CRM, email, files and analytics - and answer with the source named. It is read-only by design: it retrieves data and never writes to, or acts in, a connected system, which is what makes it safe to point at live accounts.

This page is part of the CorpusIQ directory, the reference we maintain for the MCP server and agent-skill ecosystem. Run alongside CorpusIQ, a third-party server like this one can be combined with a company's own business data in a single answer.

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Limitations / Verification¶

Opinionated workflow - best adopted whole, not piecemeal
Verify install: npx skills list | grep caveman shows installed entries
caveman-es / caveman-cn are localizations of the core skill

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