Caveman
why use many token when few do trick
Details
- External ID
- 1220849
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Caveman
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Aug. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 160
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.08146067415730338
- Tags
- Open Source, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:23 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:23 a.m.
Description
One command wraps Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, and more with a local proxy that compresses logs, tool output, and files before every provider call. In a pinned 54-run benchmark: 33.2% fewer input tokens with 18/18 correctness checks. Caveman can also run any existing agent skill with ~70% fewer tokens by loading text as images. Built on an open-source ecosystem with 97K+ GitHub stars.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Claude integrations and coding agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Model & infra
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- token optimization for llm inference
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It acts as a local HTTP reverse proxy that intercepts outbound LLM requests, applies regex/heuristic token reduction or summarization algorithms to system prompts and tool logs, and forwards them.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 139 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #137 of 140 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 280 days after the earliest competitor.
- Agentmemory · ph · 2026-05-16 · 322 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Rocky and Caveman Speak in Claurst CLI Save Big Token Amaze Amaze Amaze · hn · 2026-04-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- I nerfed our coding agents on purpose · hn · 2026-06-05 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Edgee Claude Code Compressor V2 · ph · 2026-07-06 · 179 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- master-of · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Semble · hn · 2026-05-03 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Semble · hn · 2026-05-17 · 445 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Lessons learned from running Claude Code swarms at scale · hn · 2026-06-05 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.42
Other launches for this product
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