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Does Speaking to Agents Like Cavemen Really Save 65% of Tokens? We Test

calendar_today July 6, 2026 person Denis Shiryaev domain jetbrains

A paired A/B benchmark of the token-compression skill Caveman on Claude Code, run on SkillsBench: does it actually save tokens, and does it degrade AI agent output quality? Advertised saving: 65%. Measured saving: 8.5%.

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