Use Case
Caveman is a powerful AI agent skill that extends your assistant with new capabilities. A radical simplicity skill that strips AI coding assistants back to first principles. Caveman enforces brutally simple code β no abstractions, no frameworks, no clever tricks. Just plain, readable, maintainable code that any developer can understand at a glance. Inspired by the philosophy that the best code is the code you don't write. This guide walks you through installing Caveman, configuring it for your setup, and running your first commands β so you can start getting value in minutes.
Install Caveman: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install caveman
Restart your AI client (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or OpenClaw)
Type a natural language request related to design & creative to trigger Caveman
Review the output and refine your prompt for better results
Combine Caveman with other skills to build multi-step workflows
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing Caveman
Help me get started with Caveman
What can Caveman do for my design & creative workflow?
Show me an example of using Caveman
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install cavemanOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install cavemanβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/caveman/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.