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JuliusBrussee/caveman
Caveman is an open-source skill and proxy that reduces coding agent token usage by 65% by making the agent communicate in caveman-style prose. It works with 30+ agents, installs with a single command, and has been cited in an Adobe research paper and tested by JetBrains with no measurable quality loss. The project topped GitHub Trending and has over 100,000 stars.
- for who
- Developers who use or build AI coding agents
- why now
- Caveman proxy and skill are #1 on GitHub Trending in July 2026, cutting token costs.
- what changes
- AI coding agents become significantly cheaper to run while maintaining output quality, as token usage drops by 65%.
- to do
- Install the skill with 'npx skills add JuliusBrussee/caveman -g' or set up the proxy with 'npm install -g @caveman-ai/cli'.
key points
- Cuts token usage by 65% by making agents talk like a caveman
- Cited in Adobe Research paper, tested by JetBrains on 86 tasks
- Over 100,000 GitHub stars, works with 30+ agents, Apache-2.0
#token optimization#ai programming#open source tool#cost reduction
score
score 8 out of 10. 0-10: how dense the facts are, multiplied by how much you can do with them after reading. 8+ means the topic's evidence bar is met: benchmarks and availability for a new model, amount and investors for a funding round, revenue figures for a solo-money story. Below 5 an item does not enter the digest. A press release scores 3 or less, a reprint loses 2, anything older than 14 days loses 1, a headline that misleads loses 3.
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