Caveman Compress

Purpose

Compress natural language files (CLAUDE.md, todos, preferences) into caveman-speak to reduce input tokens. Compressed version overwrites original. Human-readable backup saved as <filename>.original.md.

Trigger

/caveman:compress <filepath> or when user asks to compress a memory file.

Process

1. This SKILL.md lives alongside scripts/ in the same directory. Find that directory.

2. Run:

cd <directory_containing_this_SKILL.md> && python3 -m scripts <absolute_filepath>

3. The CLI will: