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Caveman is a Claude Code plugin that reduces LLM output tokens by ~65-75% by instructing the AI to respond in terse, caveman-style speech while maintaining full technical accuracy. It offers multiple intensity levels (lite, full, ultra) and a classical Chinese (文言文) mode. A companion compression tool rewrites CLAUDE.md memory files into compressed form, cutting ~45% of input tokens per session. Benchmarks show 22-87% token savings across common coding tasks, with a cited research paper supporting that brevity constraints can actually improve accuracy. Install is a single command for Claude Code or Codex.