Open source alternatives to caveman-explore
24 open source AI Skills apps to use instead, best rated first.
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github-ops
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opensource-pipeline
Launchopensource-pipeline is an agent skill from the ECC collection by affaan-m, listed on skills.sh. It prepares a private project for safe public release through a three-stage pipeline. The fork stage strips secrets from a copy. The sanitise st
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andrej-karpathy-skills
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microsoft/markitdown
Launchmarkitdown-mcp is the MCP server package for MarkItDown, Microsoft's tool for converting many file formats to Markdown for language models. It is a lightweight server that runs over stdio, Streamable HTTP or SSE, and exposes one tool, conve
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od-contribute
Launchod-contribute is an agent skill in the OpenDesign project that provides a guided, one-click contribution flow to the OpenDesign repository, written so that people without a coding background can send a real pull request. It is locked to the
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github-deep-research
Launchgithub-deep-research is an agent skill from the DeerFlow project that researches a single GitHub repository in several rounds and writes a report in Markdown. It is for requests that need more than a README summary, such as a comprehensive
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About caveman-explore

caveman-explore
Read-only repository explorer for cold-start orientation
caveman-explore is a read-only repository explorer from the caveman project, meant for cold-start orientation, broad cross-file localization, and cases where a direct search has failed. It is written as a fast, cheap explorer. Another agent hands it a localization question, and it reports where the relevant code lives as a compact list of file paths with line ranges. It never edits files, runs commands or proposes a solution. Its method is to fan out: on the first turn it issues several searches and reads in parallel, covering likely path patterns, symbol and string matches, and the most promising files, and it follows the evidence for only a turn or two more if needed. It must cite only line ranges it has actually read, never invent or estimate a range, and never cite a range past the end of a file. The instructions say a precise small range is better than a vague large one. The skill also says to skip it when the exact file or symbol is already known, since a direct lookup is faster. It suits agents that want to save their own token budget while locating code in an unfamiliar repository.
- Price
- Free
- Made by
- juliusbrussee
- Category
- AI Skills
- Website
- github.com/juliusbrussee/caveman/caveman-explore











