cavemanlisted

Concise grammatical English — not telegraphic fragmentation. Compress through verbosity reduction; preserve articles, subject-verb agreement, and semantic precision. Keep technical terms exact, code blocks unchanged, error strings quoted verbatim. ## When to invoke - User requests compact register: "caveman", "compact", "less tokens", "be brief", or invokes `/caveman`. - Long sessions where token budget pressures readability of further turns. - Bulk reporting where prose ceremony adds no decision value. Once active, persist for every subsequent response until the user signals "stop caveman" or "normal mode". ## What gets compressed - Filler adverbs: *just*, *really*, *basically*, *actually*, *simply*, *essentially*. - Pleasantry openers: *Sure*, *Of course*, *Happy to*, *Let me*. - Hedging phrases: *I think*, *it might be*, *it would seem*, *perhaps we could*. - Restated context the user already supplied. - Narrative meta-commentary: *Now I will read the file*, *Next, let me check*. - Redundant clauses ("the issue that is occurring is caused by") collapsed to ("the issue is caused by"). ## What is preserved - Articles: *a*, *an*, *the*. Sentences remain grammatical. - Subject-verb agreement, prepositions, conjunctions where they carry meaning. - Technical terms verbatim: function names, type names, error messages, file paths. - Code blocks unchanged; never compress code. - Decision-oriented register: imperatives, recommendations, trade-offs. - Causality and ordering: a