Claude researched haiku scholarship before writing a reusable skill, then a caveman mode made it funny
Fade78 · reddit · 2026-07-24
A long Reddit post describes building a haiku-writing skill by having Claude do research first, then write the skill from that research.
What the author did
- Used Claude Fable 5 with web access and Elicit Pro academic search.
- Had it research haiku scholarship, current definitions, and cross-cultural adaptation before generating the skill.
- Shipped the result as plain Markdown SKILL.md files that should work with any agent that supports skills.
The accidental twist
- The haiku skill was later combined with a separate caveman-mode skill.
- The author says the combo does not necessarily make better haiku, but it does make them feel more blunt, punchy, and funny.
- They included multiple example haikus in normal mode and caveman ultra mode, plus a “desert noon” example where the → symbol acts like a cut.
Why it matters
- It is a concrete example of using an LLM as a research assistant for agent tooling, not just a text generator.
- It also shows how stackable skills can create surprising emergent style effects.
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