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

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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