Caveman
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Caveman cuts ~75% of Claude's output tokens without losing technical accuracy. One-line install for Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, and more. Four grunt levels, terse commits, one-line PR reviews, and input compression built in. 24.9K stars.
PH · launched Apr 14, 2026 · 262 upvotes (top 48%) · 0 views
Niche: llm optimization tools · 127 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▲ +50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
- Open Source
- Developer Tools
- Artificial Intelligence
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a prompt engineering configuration and lightweight CLI script that applies terse output formatting rules and token compression heuristics to coding assistants.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 351 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #186 of 352 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 159 days after the earliest competitor.
- Edgee Claude Code Compressor V2 · ph · 2026-07-06 · 179 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- claudecut · github · 2026-09-20 · 40 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- CodeBurn · hn · 2026-04-13 · 112 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Caveman (F26) - The joke with 120k GitHub stars is now the most efficient coding agent · yc · 2026-11-13 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Latitude for Claude Code · ph · 2026-05-13 · 368 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Rocky and Caveman Speak in Claurst CLI Save Big Token Amaze Amaze Amaze · hn · 2026-04-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Quotient Labs: Stop overpaying Claude for tokens you don't need · yc · 2026-09-14 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Claude Usage Tracker · ph · 2026-03-23 · 235 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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