Single-commit port of the Caveman 2 tree onto the original repo history
(candidate caveman-2@88878a4 applied over main@3098342). No unrelated-history
merge; original history untouched.
Preserved v1 surfaces:
- skills/caveman/SKILL.md byte-for-byte, plus plugin mirror and caveman.skill zip
- legacy CI (Node 18/20/22 installer + Python 3.11 suites) alongside engine-ci
- cli/install.js compatibility shim forwarding to bin/install.js
- .codex/config.toml ships both hooks and codex_hooks for older Codex (#617)
- README Trendshift + Skills.sh badges and local star-history asset
- v1.10.0-pinned curl installs; benchmarks/tmp-starcharts ignore rules
Fixed for public same-repo release:
- SECURITY.md vulnerability reporting points at this repository
- release-binaries.yml publishes to this repo via job-scoped GITHUB_TOKEN
(cross-repo PAT removed); binary-release environment still gates signing
- packages/cli/PUBLISHING.md rewritten for packages/ layout and same-repo flow
- profile-contract and provider-catalog lanes skip lane-scope gates on
initial import so the launch PR can gate on their real validation steps
- ANNOUNCEMENT.md network claim corrected: compression is local; requests
still go to the provider you configured
Caveman 2 stays opt-in: bin-v1.0.0 binaries and @caveman-ai/cli publish
separately after this lands and soaks.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BLvb5QniwYjmcawyssQNw9
Replace the ~50-65% range and the ~50%-vs-terse figure with a single 65%
(the measured average output reduction vs verbose baseline) on every product
surface: README hero + ASCII card + benchmark blurb, plugin.json,
marketplace.json, gemini-extension.json, caveman SKILL.md + skill README,
caveman-init rule frontmatter, and the docs site (index.html telemetry widget
+ marquee still showed the old 75%). Trim HONEST-NUMBERS.md to match. Raw
benchmark/eval snapshots and the eval-harness methodology docs are untouched.
Bump PINNED_REF v1.9.0 -> v1.9.1 so the standalone hook-download fallback
fetches cavecrew-model-overrides.js from the release tag instead of 404ing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0163QczkBHKpYgxx3sBc7X3b
README headline now states the measured range with method (65% avg vs
verbose default from benchmarks/, ~50% median vs 'Answer concisely.'
control from evals/) plus explicit caveat: input tokens untouched,
session-level savings smaller. Stats box shows output vs input split,
drops the unmeasured ~3x speed row. Same ~75% claim corrected in
SKILL.md description (+ synced plugin copy and dist/caveman.skill),
plugin.json, marketplace.json, gemini-extension.json, caveman-init
rule frontmatter, skill README, and CLAUDE.md.
Note for maintainer: the GitHub repo description still says 'cuts 65%
of tokens' — should read 'cuts ~50-65% of output tokens (measured)'.
Not changeable from a local commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011kmm2umRGb5nLxdimrwweZ
Gemini CLI fails to load skills through symlinks. Replace symlinks
in skills/compress/ with actual file copies and update CI to keep
them in sync. Remove redundant root compress/ directory.
Add statusline support and installer/uninstaller hooks, improve compression tooling and docs. Key changes:
- Add caveman statusline badge script (hooks/caveman-statusline.sh) and wire it into install/uninstall (hooks/install.sh, hooks/uninstall.sh); installer now requires node, backs up settings.json, and makes the statusline executable.
- Enhance SessionStart hook (hooks/caveman-activate.js) to detect missing statusline config and emit a setup nudge; update hooks README with statusline usage and setup instructions.
- Add gemini-extension.json, AGENTS.md, and GEMINI.md to register skills and support Gemini CLI installation.
- Update README to mention statusline badge, Gemini CLI install, and agent list.
- Improve caveman-compress: rename skill (caveman-compress), clarify CLI path/usage in SKILL.md, return on validation failure without overwriting, bump benchmark encoding, and make compressor robust to LLM outer fences by stripping wrapping fences and expanding max_tokens; add explicit rule to avoid wrapping entire output in fences.
- Strengthen code-block extraction in validate.py to handle variable-length fences (```/~~~), nested fences, and CommonMark rules.
- Minor SKILL.md tweak: resume caveman mode when user asks to clarify or repeats question.
These changes integrate a visible status badge for Claude Code users, improve install/uninstall reliability, extend Gemini support, and make the compressor/validator more robust when interacting with LLM outputs.
Julius Brussee