Caveman — the Claude skill that 4x your token budget

What it is

Caveman is a Claude skill that rewrites Claude's answers in the shortest style possible. Instead of 'Sure, I'd be happy to help, here's the next step,' you get 'Next step, open settings, toggle on.' Same information, roughly four times fewer tokens. The skill sits on GitHub and has already crossed 50,000 stars.

How it works

Three intensity levels are built in. Lite kills the filler words. Full shortens phrases and tightens sentence structure. Ultra strips everything down to telegraph style. Full is the sweet spot — answers stay readable, but the token savings are massive.

How to apply it

Install the skill from the repo, drop it into your Claude setup, and pick your intensity level. From that point on, every Claude response gets compressed automatically. You hit the usage limit far less often, and the quality of reasoning stays exactly the same — Claude just stops padding the output.