Show HN: Caveman-speak extension for the Pi agent harness

Category: devtools

Tags: ai-agent, token-optimization, developer-tools

Score: 6.0/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 5, Documentation: 8, Utility: 5)

This is a clever extension for the Pi AI agent harness that forces the LLM to output responses in an extremely terse 'caveman' style, reducing token count by ~75% while preserving technical accuracy. It's interesting because it applies a novel communication constraint across multiple intensity levels and even classical Chinese variants to optimize for brevity in developer tooling.

Target audience: backend devs, frontend devs, devops

Repository: https://github.com/jonjonrankin/pi-caveman · TypeScript · MIT

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