The best caveman alternatives

ponytail

DietrichGebert/ponytail

Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

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• you would rather work in JavaScript than Go
• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you want the more widely starred option (183.4k)
• you specifically need agent-skills or ai-agents

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headroom

headroomlabs-ai/headroom

Compress tool outputs, logs, files, and RAG chunks before they reach the LLM. 20% fewer tokens for coding agents, 60-95% fewer tokens for JSON, same answers. Library, proxy, MCP server.

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• you would rather work in Python than Go
• you need a detected license — this one reports Apache License 2.0
• you specifically need agent or compression

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agents

wshobson/agents

Multi-harness agentic plugin marketplace for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, and Google Antigravity

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• you would rather work in Python than Go
• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agent-skills or agentic-ai

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agency-agents-zh

jnMetaCode/agency-agents-zh

🎭 277 个即插即用的 AI 专家角色 — 支持 Claude Code/Cursor/Copilot 等 20 种工具，覆盖工程/设计/营销/金融等 20 个部门。含 64 个中国市场原创智能体（小红书/抖音/微信/飞书/钉钉/Qt 上位机/机械设计）。搭配编排器 agency-orchestrator，一句话即可让多位专家按 DAG 自动协作。

Choose agency-agents-zh if…

• you would rather work in Shell than Go
• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agency-orchestrator or agent-definitions

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loop-engineering

cobusgreyling/loop-engineering

Practical patterns, starters & CLI tools for loop engineering with AI coding agents. Design systems that prompt and orchestrate agents (inspired by Addy Osmani and Boris Cherny). Includes loop-audit, loop-init, loop-cost.

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• you would rather work in TypeScript than Go
• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agentic-ai or ai-agents

Shares anthropic, claude, claude-code, llm with caveman.

zcf

UfoMiao/zcf

Zero-Config Code Flow for Claude code & Codex

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• you would rather work in TypeScript than Go
• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agent or ai-agent

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Claude-Code-Everything-You-Need-to-Know

wesammustafa/Claude-Code-Everything-You-Need-to-Know

A practical Claude Code guide with clear mental models and copy-paste examples — setup, prompt engineering, slash commands, skills, hooks, subagents, agent teams, and MCP servers. Beginner path to power-user depth. Featured in Awesome Claude Code.

Choose Claude-Code-Everything-You-Need-to-Know if…

• you would rather work in Python than Go
• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agent-skills or agentic-coding

Shares anthropic, claude, claude-code, prompt-engineering with caveman.

Claude Code skill: hand bulk judgment calls to Jev. 86% fewer Claude tokens on a 12-task benchmark, up to 20x faster. One-line npx install.

Choose quicksilver if…

• you would rather work in JavaScript than Go
• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need ai-agents or developer-tools

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academic-research-skills

Imbad0202/academic-research-skills

Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize

Choose academic-research-skills if…

• you would rather work in Python than Go
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need academic-pipeline or academic-writing

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ECC

affaan-m/ECC

The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor and beyond.

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• you would rather work in JavaScript than Go
• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you want the more widely starred option (296.2k)
• you specifically need ai-agents or developer-tools

Shares anthropic, claude, claude-code, llm with caveman.

hermes-agent

NousResearch/hermes-agent

The agent that grows with you

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• you would rather work in Python than Go
• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you want the more widely starred option (260.1k)
• you specifically need ai-agent or ai-agents

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prompts.chat

f/prompts.chat

f.k.a. Awesome ChatGPT Prompts. Share, discover, and collect prompts from the community. Free and open source — self-host for your organization with complete privacy.

Choose prompts.chat if…

• you would rather work in HTML than Go
• you want the more widely starred option (175.7k)
• you specifically need artificial-intelligence or awesome-list

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