· Mark Lester Mahilum · Tutorials
Caveman Mode: How I Cut Claude Code's Output Tokens
A CLAUDE.md persona plus two hooks that make Claude respond terse-but-complete in every session. Same technical substance, a fraction of the tokens.
A CLAUDE.md persona plus two hooks that make Claude respond terse-but-complete in every session. Same technical substance, a fraction of the tokens.
Claude Code stops when it thinks it's done, not when the work is done. A session-scoped Stop hook turns your goal into a contract it can't walk away from.
A Bash rewrite hook pointed at a CLI that wasn't installed. Every shell command in every Claude Code session failed until Claude routed around it.
How I wired Claude Code's PostToolUse hooks to automatically review every file I edit, catching bugs before I even run the code.