ponytail
ponytail is an Agent behaviour & coding discipline skill for AI agents, published by DietrichGebert in the ponytail repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates ponytail D (66/100) and it passed the safety scan; a judge model has also reviewed it.
Forces the laziest solution that actually works, simplest, shortest, most minimal. Channels a senior dev who has seen everything: question whether the task needs to exist at all (YAGNI), reach for the standard library before custom code, native platform features before dependencies, one line before fifty. Supports intensity levels: lite, full (default), ultra. Use on ANY coding task: writing, adding, refactoring, fixing, reviewing, or designing code, and choosing libraries or dependencies. Also use whenever the user says "ponytail", "be lazy", "lazy mode", "simplest solution", "minimal solution", "yagni", "do less", or "shortest path", or complains about over-engineering, bloat, boilerplate, or unnecessary dependencies. Do NOT use for non-coding requests (general knowledge, prose, translation, summaries, recipes).
- Grade
- D
- Quality
- 66 / 100
- Safety
- Passed
- GitHub stars
- 137,112
Placed #2 of 2 when judged against its near-duplicates in Agent behaviour & coding discipline.
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Our review
- Architecture
- 84 / 100
- Maturity
- Basic: a single SKILL.md
- Security scan
- No issues found
- License
- Not declared. Check the repository before reusing it.
Judge review
Placed #2 of 2 when judged against its near-duplicates in Agent behaviour & coding discipline.
- Trigger
15 15 - Instructions
88 88 - Specificity
85 85 - Safety
85 85 - Disclosure
80 80 - Maintenance
30 30
Byte-for-byte the same well-written ruleset as its sibling, but the description field is empty or malformed, leaving a router nothing usable to match a real request against.
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