🪨 kimi-caveman

Why use many token when few do trick.

A Kimi Code CLI skill that makes your agent talk like caveman — cutting ~60-75% of output tokens while keeping full technical accuracy.

Based on the viral observation that terse, telegraphic communication dramatically reduces LLM token usage without losing substance.

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✨ Features

• 🪶 Lite / 🪨 Full / 🔥 Ultra / 📜 文言文 — pick your grunt level
• 🎯 Same accuracy — all technical info kept, only fluff dropped
• ⚡ Faster responses — less tokens to generate = speed go brrr
• 🗜️ caveman-compress — rewrite markdown/memory files into caveman-speak (~46% input token savings)
• 💬 caveman-commit — terse commit messages (≤50 chars)
• 🔍 caveman-review — one-line code review comments
• 📊 Stats tracking — token savings estimation

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📦 Installation

As a Kimi Skill (recommended)

# Clone to your skills directory
git clone https://github.com/theretech/kimi-caveman.git ~/.kimi/skills/caveman-mode

Or install via pip:

pip install kimi-caveman

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🚀 Usage

Activate caveman mode

Just say to Kimi:

• "caveman mode"
• "talk like caveman"
• "less tokens please"
• "modo caveman"

Deactivate with: "stop caveman" or "normal mode"

Intensity Levels

Level	Trigger	Style
🪶 Lite	caveman lite	Drop filler, keep grammar
🪨 Full	caveman full	Default caveman. No articles, fragments
🔥 Ultra	caveman ultra	Maximum compression, telegraphic
📜 文言文	caveman wenyan	Classical Chinese literary compression

Examples

Normal Kimi (69 tokens):

"The reason your React component is re-rendering is likely because you're creating a new object reference on each render cycle. I'd recommend using useMemo to memoize the object."

🪨 Caveman Kimi (19 tokens):

"New object ref each render. Inline object prop = new ref = re-render. Wrap in useMemo."

🔥 Ultra (12 tokens):

"Inline obj prop → new ref → re-render. useMemo."

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🗜️ caveman-compress

Compress markdown/memory files into caveman-speak. Preserves code blocks, URLs, and paths byte-for-byte.

# Compress a file
caveman-compress my-notes.md

# Output: my-notes.caveman.md (backup saved as .original.md)

File	Original	Compressed	Saved
claude-md-preferences.md	706	285	59.6%
project-notes.md	1145	535	53.3%
Average	898	481	46%

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🏗️ Architecture

kimi-caveman/
├── caveman_mode/
│   ├── SKILL.md              # Skill instructions for Kimi
│   ├── scripts/
│   │   └── compress.py       # Markdown compression tool
│   └── references/
│       └── modes.md          # Mode reference card
├── tests/
├── README.md
└── pyproject.toml

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🤝 Contributing

1. Fork the repo
2. Create a feature branch
3. Make your changes
4. Run tests: pytest
5. Run linter: ruff check .
6. Submit a PR

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☕ Support

PIX (Brazil):
54802231000148 — THE RETECH LTDA - EPP

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📄 License

MIT — see LICENSE for details.

🏢 About

kimi-caveman is a token-efficient communication skill for Kimi Code CLI. It reduces agent output verbosity by 60-75% while maintaining 100% technical accuracy, making sessions faster, cheaper, and more readable.

Part of the caveman ecosystem: less tokens, same brain.

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