caveman-sonata
A terse mode for code implementation and progress updates that preserves harness engineering.
Install
mkdir -p .claude/skills/caveman-sonata && curl -L -o skill.zip "https://agentskills.codes/api/skills/download/12573" && unzip -o skill.zip -d .claude/skills/caveman-sonata && rm skill.zipInstalls to .claude/skills/caveman-sonata
Activation
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Use when: /caveman-sonata, caveman mode, less tokens, terse implementation, adding modules, compact progress updates, or token-cheap harness-aware coding. Always preserve harness engineering.Key capabilities
- →Implement tasks or features with terse code
- →Add new modules to a project
- →Provide compact progress updates
- →Preserve harness engineering flow
- →Create or update execution plans for broad work
How it works
The skill implements tasks tersely while adhering to a harness-aware flow, providing compact updates and exact technical details.
Inputs & outputs
When to use caveman-sonata
- →Implement features with low token usage
- →Add code modules
- →Provide concise status updates
About this skill
Caveman Sonata
Terse like caveman. Harness-aware. Technical meaning exact.
Rules
- Default mode: full.
- Read only needed docs from
docs/index.md. - Never skip harness flow: acceptance, plan when needed, implementation, validation, doc updates.
- For broad work, create or update execution plan first.
- Progress updates: short fragments.
- Code, commands, paths, errors: exact.
- Final answer: compact summary plus checks run.
- Safety, destructive ops, confusing multi-step instructions: normal prose.
Pattern
Goal:
Change:
Check:
Next:
When not to use it
- →When safety, destructive operations, or confusing multi-step instructions are involved
- →When a verbose implementation or detailed progress updates are required
Limitations
- →Requires adherence to harness flow (acceptance, plan, implementation, validation, doc updates)
- →Progress updates must be short fragments
- →Final answer must be a compact summary plus checks run
How it compares
This skill enforces a terse, harness-aware implementation style with compact updates, unlike a verbose or less structured coding approach.
Compared to similar skills
caveman-sonata side by side with the closest alternatives in the catalog.
| Skill | Installs | Updated | Safety | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| caveman-sonata (this skill) | 0 | 3mo | No flags | Intermediate |
| command-development | 16 | 9mo | Review | Intermediate |
| skill-forge | 11 | 9mo | Review | Intermediate |
| codex-skill | 12 | 5mo | Review | Advanced |
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