feat(caveman): full install — plugin + standalone hooks + MCP scaffold

Wires JuliusBrussee/caveman into the always-on tier alongside
security-guidance and superpowers. Caveman compresses Claude's output
tokens (~75%) by speaking like a caveman while keeping technical
substance. Three layers:

  1. Plugin (caveman@caveman, marketplace JuliusBrussee/caveman)
     — adds /caveman, /caveman-commit, /caveman-review, /caveman-stats,
       /caveman-help, /cavecrew, /compress + 3 cavecrew agents +
       SessionStart/UserPromptSubmit hooks from the plugin path.
  2. Standalone hooks (statusline + stats badge) deployed by
     caveman's own hooks/install.sh into ~/.claude/hooks/. Paths in
     settings.json normalized to ~/.claude/hooks/... so this user's
     home dir doesn't leak across machines.
  3. caveman-shrink MCP proxy — NOT auto-registered. The bare proxy
     fails health checks because it requires an upstream MCP server
     to wrap. install-plugins.sh STEP 5.5 prints a snippet showing how
     to register a wrapped entry (e.g. caveman-shrink-fs) when the user
     decides which upstream to compress.

New helper enable_plugin() for explicit always-on activation —
'claude plugin install' only copies into cache, doesn't write
enabledPlugins. Idempotent via Python json check.

doctor.sh adds detect_caveman / detect_caveman_hooks / detect_caveman_shrink
checks plus a 300t passive-cost adder. update-all.sh refreshes hook
files via the upstream installer's --force mode.

.gitignore covers caveman runtime files materialized into hooks/
because ~/.claude/hooks is symlinked to this repo.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
bastien
2026-05-03 23:02:47 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 4.7
parent 94b79d2ebb
commit e4f4edc121
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@@ -353,6 +353,35 @@ install_plugin() {
fi
}
# Enable a marketplace plugin in user scope. `claude plugin install` only
# copies the plugin into ~/.claude/plugins/cache — it does NOT register
# it in settings.json's enabledPlugins map. Without an explicit enable,
# the plugin sits dormant. Use this for plugins that should be ALWAYS ON
# (security-guidance, superpowers, caveman). Idempotent: skips if already
# present in enabledPlugins.
enable_plugin() {
local name="$1"
local source="$2"
local key="${name}@${source}"
if [ -f "$HOME/.claude/settings.json" ] && command -v python3 &>/dev/null; then
if python3 -c "
import json, sys
with open('$HOME/.claude/settings.json') as f:
d = json.load(f)
sys.exit(0 if d.get('enabledPlugins', {}).get('$key') else 1)
" 2>/dev/null; then
ok "$name (already enabled)"
return
fi
fi
info "Enabling $name..."
if claude plugin enable "$key" 2>/dev/null; then
ok "$name enabled"
else
err "$name enable failed — run manually: claude plugin enable $key"
fi
}
# Anthropic bundled plugins (from anthropics/claude-code repo)
# These are NOT in claude-plugins-official — they require the claude-code marketplace
info "Adding Anthropic bundled plugins marketplace..."
@@ -383,6 +412,108 @@ install_plugin "ui-ux-pro-max" "ui-ux-pro-max-skill"
echo ""
# ============================================================
# STEP 5.5 — CAVEMAN (full: plugin + standalone hooks + MCP shrink)
# ============================================================
# Caveman compresses output tokens (~75%) via caveman-speak. The "full"
# install layers three things on top of each other:
# 1. Plugin — /caveman command, cavecrew subagents, mode tracker hooks
# 2. Hooks — statusline + stats badge written into ~/.claude/
# 3. MCP shrink — caveman-shrink proxy that compresses tool input tokens
# Per-repo rule files (--with-init / --all) are skipped — they would litter
# this config repo with caveman-rules.md noise meant for project repos.
echo "── Step 5.5: Caveman (full: plugin + hooks + MCP shrink) ────"
echo ""
info "Adding Caveman marketplace..."
claude plugin marketplace add JuliusBrussee/caveman 2>/dev/null || true
install_plugin "caveman" "caveman"
enable_plugin "caveman" "caveman"
# Standalone hooks (statusline + stats badge). The plugin already wires
# SessionStart + UserPromptSubmit hooks from its own path; this installer
# adds the statusLine config and ~/.claude/hooks/caveman-stats.js that
# the plugin doesn't carry.
CAVEMAN_HOOKS_URL="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman/main/hooks/install.sh"
if [ -f "$HOME/.claude/hooks/caveman-statusline.sh" ] \
&& grep -q 'caveman-statusline' "$HOME/.claude/settings.json" 2>/dev/null; then
ok "Caveman standalone hooks already installed"
else
info "Installing Caveman standalone hooks (statusline + stats)..."
CAVEMAN_HOOKS_TMP="$(mktemp -t caveman-hooks-XXXXXX.sh)"
if curl -fsSL "$CAVEMAN_HOOKS_URL" -o "$CAVEMAN_HOOKS_TMP" \
&& bash "$CAVEMAN_HOOKS_TMP"; then
ok "Caveman hooks installed"
# Caveman's hooks installer hardcodes the absolute home path
# ($HOME/.claude/hooks/caveman-*.js) into settings.json. The repo's
# settings.json is symlinked to ~/.claude/settings.json — committing
# the absolute path would leak this user's username to every machine
# that clones the repo. Rewrite to portable ~/.claude/hooks/... form.
if [ -f "$HOME/.claude/settings.json" ] && command -v python3 &>/dev/null; then
python3 - "$HOME/.claude/settings.json" "$HOME" <<'PY'
import json, sys, re
path, home = sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2]
with open(path) as f:
data = json.load(f)
def rewrite(node):
if isinstance(node, dict):
for k, v in node.items():
if k == "command" and isinstance(v, str) and "caveman" in v:
node[k] = re.sub(rf'"?{re.escape(home)}/.claude/hooks/(caveman-[^"\s]+)"?',
r'~/.claude/hooks/\1', v)
else:
rewrite(v)
elif isinstance(node, list):
for item in node:
rewrite(item)
rewrite(data)
with open(path, "w") as f:
json.dump(data, f, indent=2)
PY
ok "Caveman hook paths normalized to ~/.claude/hooks/... (portable)"
fi
else
err "Caveman hooks install failed — re-run manually: bash <(curl -fsSL $CAVEMAN_HOOKS_URL)"
fi
rm -f "$CAVEMAN_HOOKS_TMP"
fi
# MCP shrink — caveman-shrink is a *proxy* that wraps an upstream MCP
# server and compresses prose fields in its responses. It cannot run
# standalone (it errors with "missing upstream command"). We don't auto-
# register it: the user must pick an upstream MCP server to wrap (e.g.
# the filesystem server, the GitHub server, …) and add a wrapped entry
# to ~/.claude.json manually. Print the snippet so they can copy-paste.
if claude mcp list 2>/dev/null | grep -q '^caveman-shrink-'; then
ok "caveman-shrink wrapper already registered (custom upstream)"
else
info "caveman-shrink MCP — manual setup needed (it's a proxy, needs an upstream):"
cat <<'EOF'
Add a wrapped MCP entry to ~/.claude.json under "mcpServers", e.g.
to compress filesystem-server responses:
{
"mcpServers": {
"caveman-shrink-fs": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y", "caveman-shrink",
"npx", "-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem",
"/path/to/dir"
]
}
}
}
Or via CLI (replace upstream with your target server):
claude mcp add caveman-shrink-fs --scope user -- \
npx -y caveman-shrink npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem /path
EOF
warn "caveman-shrink not auto-registered (would fail health check without upstream)"
fi
echo ""
# ============================================================
# STEP 6 — CONTEXT7 CLI (ctx7)
# ============================================================
@@ -593,6 +724,7 @@ echo " ALWAYS ON (installed at user scope):"
echo " ✅ security-guidance — PreToolUse security hook (0 tokens) [claude-code-plugins]"
echo " ✅ rtk — token compression hook (0 tokens)"
echo " ✅ superpowers — brainstorm/plan/implement/debug workflow"
echo " ✅ caveman — output compression (~75%) + caveman-shrink MCP (input)"
echo ""
echo " TOGGLE (installed but start OFF — /plugin-check recommends when needed):"
echo " 🔄 gstack — disabled by default (toggle: lib/toggle-external.sh enable gstack)"