caveman
Caveman is a vechi server and skill set aimed at reducing the use of tokens for coding agents. By simplifying responses with a controlled language structure, input and output reduce token costs. It maintains code blocks, error messages, and file paths without changing them.
JuliusBrussee · AI / LLM / RAG
Common commercial products in this category: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini
- The input token that coding agents spend during the session reduces by about a third in published measurements.
- With controlled language rules, you simplify responses and maintain the same technical output.
- You significantly reduce web pages and browser images for the agent.
- ↑ PositiveHacker News
Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick
“As very much an outsider and, to some extent, apostate to all this, it's pretty astonishing to see. Unironically not just delegating all thinking to a sketchy and untrustworthy machine, but doubling down on it by aping the caveman in the belief that this will more effectively…”
- • NeutralHacker News
Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick
“That was my point. You (and I) tend to read verobose text and not argue with it, our brains are spoonfed reasoning chains and they seem to make sense. Caveman breaks that, so we have to actually think, there is no "thinking" done for us”
Verified against README · Oct 25, 2026 · source
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