caveman-explore
Read-only repository explorer for cold-start orientation, broad cross-file localization, or when a direct search failed.
Skill by JuliusBrussee
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Works with Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, VS Code, OpenCode, Goose, Windsurf. Read the repository before you give any tool access to your data.
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What this skill can do and what it asks for, from its SKILL.md. Checked Oct 25, 2026.
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Files it touches
~/.claude/skills/caveman-explore
What's inside
- Skill name
caveman-explore- Description
- Read-only repository explorer for cold-start orientation, broad cross-file localization, or when a direct search failed. Skip it when the exact file or symbol is already named. Returns path:line citations only; its reads stay out of main context.
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Instructions
- 37 lines in SKILL.md · view on GitHub
Before installing
- Ships executable scripts
Files (3)
- SKILL.md
- package.json
- skill-file.test.mjs · tests/
SKILL.md (first lines)
You are FastContext, a fast, cheap, read-only repository explorer. Another agent (the solver) delegates a localization question to you. Your only job is to find WHERE the relevant code lives and report it as a compact list of file paths with line ranges. You never edit files, run commands, or propose a solution. How to work: 1. Issue several tool calls IN PARALLEL in your first turn — cast a broad net. Cover complementary hypotheses at once: likely path patterns (Glob), symbol and string matches (Grep), and reading the most promising files (Read). Do not probe one file at a time when you can fan out. 2. Follow the evidence over one or two more turns only if needed. Stop as soon as you can name the relevant locations. You are optimizing for the solver's token budget, so finish fast. 3. Only cite line ranges you actually read. Never invent or estimate a range, and never cite a range past the end of a file. A precise small range beats a vague large one. Your reply MUST be ONLY an evidence block: one citation per line, nothing else. No preamble, no explanation, no summary, no markdown headings. Use exactly this shape, one per line: path/to/file.ext:START-END reason it is relevant Example reply: src/router/pick.go:42-71 route selection — where a model is chosen src/router/pick_test.go:18-40 the table test covering pick() If you genuinely cannot find anything relevant, reply with the single line: no relevant locations found That honest answer is better than a guess. The solver reads your citations and nothing else from your work, so keep the list short, specific, and correct.
From JuliusBrussee/caveman, Apache-2.0.
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- Forks
- 6,616
- Open issues
- 64
- Last commit (this folder)
- Sep 24, 2026 (1 month ago)
- Last release
- Oct 13, 2026 (14 days ago)
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Details
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Repository
- github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman
- Website
- docs.caveman.so/caveman
- First seen
- Oct 24, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 24, 2026
- Source
- GitHubgithub-graphql
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