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JuliusBrussee's caveman skill makes Claude communicate in terse, caveman-style language. A single markdown file that reduces token usage by 65%. The second most-starred Claude Code skill after mattpocock/skills. Token economics are a first-class concern for agentic coding.
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Three separately-maintained projects now occupy the same layer. CodeBurn reads on-disk session files to price 41+ tools locally and flags waste like re-read files and unused MCP servers. caveman (98.9k stars) interposes a local proxy doing content-type-aware compression, JSON...
JuliusBrussee/caveman hit 54,000+ GitHub stars in under three weeks and topped Hacker News. The repo is exactly what it sounds like: a skill that strips agent verbosity, kills the "I'd be happy to help" preamble, and makes Claude answer in terse, near-grunt prose while keeping...
A GitHub repo cataloging Claude Code tips doesn't normally warrant a top story. But shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice at 53.4K stars isn't a tips list anymore. It's the de facto reference for how an entire generation of developers is learning to work with AI coding agents...
The headline number on this repo is 65% token savings. The number you should actually care about is 33.2%, and the reason to trust the project is that the maintainer tells you the difference. JuliusBrussee/caveman cut v2.1.0 on August 16 at 19:22 UTC (GitHub). The GitHub API r...
Caveman is at 94,167 stars as a single skill for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Copilot, and 30+ others, stripping conversational filler while keeping code, commands, and error strings byte-for-byte exact. The README's worked example compresses a 69-token...
VoltAgent's awesome-design-md repository packages 57 complete brand design systems as structured markdown files. Apple, Notion, Airbnb, Stripe, Uber. Drop one in your Claude Code workspace and the agent generates pixel-accurate UI matching that brand's visual language. Source:...
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