Rocky and Caveman Speak in Claurst CLI Save Big Token Amaze Amaze Amaze

Name: Rocky and Caveman Speak in Claurst CLI Save Big Token Amaze Amaze Amaze
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Author: kuberwastaken

by kuberwastaken·Apr 6, 2026·5 points·1 comment

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AI Analysis

●●SolidBig BrainNiche Gem

Caveman mode cuts tokens 70% while Claude Code alternatives charge monthly.

Strengths

•Clean-room spec approach with legal documentation avoids copyright issues from original source.
•Token compression via speech patterns is genuinely novel technique, not just wrapping APIs.
•Multi-provider support already shipped despite being early 0.0.8 version.

Weaknesses

•AI terminal agent space is saturated with Cursor, Aider, Continue already established.
•Speech modes are fun gimmick but may annoy users during serious debugging sessions.

Post Description

Hey HN! I've been building Claurst - a clean-room implementation of Claude Code in Rust, with extra features to make my ideal agentic Open-Source AI CLI. It's WIP and rough, but I'm shipping a lot to make it amaze amaze amaze.

Inspired by this HN post [1] I saw a few hours ago about caveman speak for token-efficient output, I added /Caveman and /Rocky (from project Hail Mary) to Claurst.

Caveman grammar drops ~70% of output tokens keeping technical substance and Rocky brings a close compression with more personality. Both are first-class slash commands with three levels: lite, full, ultra.

It's fun, makes you happy and saves tokens :D

Would love for you to try it out and get feedback!

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47647455