fix(skill): drop caveman when the agent asks the user a question - #758
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Auto-Clarity covers questions the user asks, not questions the agent asks. A compressed clarifying question loses the articles and conjunctions that make a choice unambiguous, so the user answers the wrong option or has to ask what was meant — a round trip that costs more tokens than the compression saved. Adds the trigger to the Auto-Clarity list and a worked example, in the same shape as the existing destructive-op example. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Adds one trigger to the
## Auto-Claritylist inskills/caveman/SKILL.md: drop caveman when the agent asks the user a question. Plus a worked example, in the same shape as the existing destructive-op one.Why
Auto-Clarity currently covers questions the user asks ("User asks to clarify or repeats question") but not questions the agent asks. Those are the case where compression hurts most.
A clarifying question is the one output the user has to act on precisely. Stripped of articles and conjunctions, option labels stop being distinguishable — "refresh every request simpler more calls or refresh near expiry fewer calls needs skew tolerance which" — so the user picks the wrong option or has to ask what was meant. That round trip costs more tokens than the compression saved, and it lands exactly when the agent is blocked and waiting.
This is the same logic already accepted for the "compression itself creates technical ambiguity" bullet — a question to the user is that failure mode with a guaranteed cost, since an ambiguous question always produces either a wrong answer or a follow-up.
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skills/caveman/SKILL.md— one bullet added to the Auto-Clarity list, one example block added after the existing destructive-op example. No other section touched.How to Review
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## Auto-Claritysection. Six lines added, nothing removed or reworded.Notes
CLAUDE.md,plugins/caveman/skills/caveman/SKILL.mdis CI-synced from this file, so I didn't touch it.tests/verify_repo.pywill flag the parity gap untilsync-skill.ymlruns on merge to main.src/hooks/caveman-activate.js:137still carries the pre-fix(skill): expand auto-clarity trigger conditions #239 run-on version of this sentence, so standalone installs without askills/dir miss the compression-ambiguity trigger too. Looked deliberate (the comment calls it "the minimum viable ruleset"), so I left it out rather than widening this diff. Happy to include it if you'd rather they stay in sync.tests/test_hooks.pypasses (7/7); verified the SessionStart hook renders the new bullet.🤖 Generated with Claude Code