Is caveman still maintained?

Yes, active. Last change today. Latest release v4.1.0, today.

Some track record. 118k stars, 7 months old. Get it from the official repo and read what it installs.

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JuliusBrussee/caveman

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Difficulty: Moderate
Time: about 15 min
Stars: ★ 118,197
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Before you start

Is it free?: YesOpen source (Apache-2.0).
Still maintained?: Yes, activeLast change today. Latest release v4.1.0, today.
Can I trust it?: Some track record118k stars, 7 months old. Get it from the official repo and read what it installs.

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Will it work on macOS?

Yes, it installs on your macOS

The README gives an install script for macOS.

Your system

macOS Windows Linux

Start here

Website ↗docs.caveman.soThe project's own site.

Install with a package manager

install script

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman/v4.1.0/install.sh | bash

Pipes a remote script into your shell. Read it before running.

From the README, exactly as the maintainers wrote it.

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Parts list

1×Node.js >=18runtime
1×Go 1.26.10runtime
1×pnpm pnpm@10.14.0package manager

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Good to know

Monorepo (workspaces) — install from the repo root.
Dockerfile available (base image: golang:1.27.3-alpine@sha256:d200d2dd76b03a99b52651fd1325aff7dcd35422c35c01bac56571b0507f3deb).
Has AGENTS.md — instructions for coding agents. You can open Claude Code (or another agent) in the cloned folder and ask it to do the setup for you.
Nested projects: benchmarks/requirements.txt, browse/package.json, extension/package.json, mcp/package.json and 11 more

Details

License: Apache-2.0
Open issues: 67
Branch: main

package.json scripts (2)

testnode --test --test-force-exit --test-concurrency=2 tests/installer/*.test.mjs tests/hooks/*.test.mjs
test:windowsnode scripts/test-windows-compat.mjs

Files we read (12)

.github/workflows/agent-conformance.yml

.github/workflows/ci.yml

.github/workflows/codeql.yml

.github/workflows/docs-links.yml

.github/workflows/engine-ci.yml

.github/workflows/middleware-canary.yml

Dockerfile

INSTALL.md

README.md

go.mod

package.json

pnpm-workspace.yaml

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