DietrichGebert/ponytail: 6 Agent Skills
Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.
| Repository | DietrichGebert/ponytail · website |
|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 174,099 |
| Skills | 6 |
| Category | Software engineering |
| License | MIT |
| Last updated | Oct 18, 2026 |
| Install counts | DietrichGebert/ponytail on skills.sh, Vercel's skills directory, which shows installs and security audits per skill |
Install DietrichGebert/ponytail
| All skills, any agent | npx skills add DietrichGebert/ponytail |
|---|---|
| One skill | npx skills add DietrichGebert/ponytail --skill ponytail-audit |
| Only for Claude Code | npx skills add DietrichGebert/ponytail -a claude-code, or copy a skill folder to ~/.claude/skills/ (all projects) or .claude/skills/ (one project) |
npx skills is the open-source skills CLI; it asks which agents to install for. Skills can include scripts that your agent will run: read a skill before installing it, as you would any code.
Skills in DietrichGebert/ponytail
| Skill | What it does |
|---|---|
| ponytail-audit | Quality audit of a whole repo: bugs, security holes, what breaks under real load, risky code without tests, slow paths, and what to delete, merge or split. Ranked, each finding explained in plain English. One-shot report, changes nothing. Use for "audit this codebase", "review the whole repo",…npx skills add DietrichGebert/ponytail --skill ponytail-audit |
| ponytail-debt | List every `shortcut:` comment (and older `ponytail:` ones) as a debt ledger. One-shot report, changes nothing. Use for "ponytail debt", "what did ponytail defer", "list the shortcuts", /ponytail-debt.npx skills add DietrichGebert/ponytail --skill ponytail-debt |
| ponytail-gain | Show ponytail's measured savings (code, cost, speed) from the benchmark. One-shot display. Use for /ponytail-gain, "what does ponytail save", "ponytail impact".npx skills add DietrichGebert/ponytail --skill ponytail-gain |
| ponytail-help | Quick reference for ponytail levels, skills and commands. One-shot display. Use for /ponytail-help, "ponytail help", "how do I use ponytail".npx skills add DietrichGebert/ponytail --skill ponytail-help |
| ponytail-review | Quality review of a change: is the logic right, is it safe, does it hold under real load, is risky code tested, is it fast enough, and is every line needed. Reads the connected code, not only the diff. Each finding is explained in plain English. Use for "review this", "code review", "review the…npx skills add DietrichGebert/ponytail --skill ponytail-review |
| ponytail | Lazy senior dev mode: the smallest change that fully solves the task, and a reply a busy human understands in one read. Use on any coding task (writing, fixing, refactoring, reviewing, choosing dependencies) and when the user says "ponytail", "be lazy", "simplest solution", "yagni", or complains…npx skills add DietrichGebert/ponytail --skill ponytail |
Names and descriptions come from each skill's SKILL.md and are written by the pack's authors.
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