ponytail
ponytail is an Agent behaviour & coding discipline skill for AI agents, published by DietrichGebert in the ponytail repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates ponytail C (72/100) and it passed the safety scan; a judge model has also reviewed it, and it has been tested head-to-head on real tasks.
Lazy senior dev mode for any coding task (write, refactor, fix, review): YAGNI, stdlib first, no unrequested abstractions. Not for non-coding requests.
- Grade
- C
- Quality
- 72 / 100
- Safety
- Passed
- GitHub stars
- 83,990
Won 3 of 6 blind task comparisons against the category's other leading skill, a deliberately weak skill and a no-skill baseline. Placed #2 of 6 in the judged category final for Agent behaviour & coding discipline.
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Our review
- Architecture
- 95 / 100
- Maturity
- Basic: a single SKILL.md
- Security scan
- No issues found
- License
- MIT
- Adoption
- Adopted by 5 other repositories, in 1 collections
- Scope
- Portable: works in any project. Generic minimalist coding persona for any codebase
Head-to-head
Won 3 of 6 blind task comparisons against the category's other leading skill, a deliberately weak skill and a no-skill baseline.
Judge review
Placed #2 of 6 in the judged category final for Agent behaviour & coding discipline.
- Trigger
83 83 - Instructions
90 90 - Specificity
88 88 - Safety
86 86 - Disclosure
78 78 - Maintenance
84 84
A rigorous, self-aware simplicity ladder with worked before/after examples and an explicit list of things never to simplify away.
A sharply written lazy-senior-dev ruleset with a concrete decision ladder, worked lite/full/ultra examples, and an explicit 'when not to be lazy' safety list, paired with a clear, well-scoped trigger description.
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