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ponytail

Forces the laziest solution that works. YAGNI, stdlib first, one line over fifty.

0 on GitHubby Dietrich Gebertv4.6.0MITupdated 4 months agoproductivity
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Plugin ponytail from marketplace ponytail in burgebj/ponytailgoodprogramming. Commands read from the repo's manifest — 1 month ago.

This plugin runs code on your machine — its hooks fire automatically on events like tool use. The exact commands are listed below; read them before installing.

What it installs

Skills (5)

  • ponytail-audit

    Whole-repo audit for over-engineering. Like ponytail-review, but scans the entire codebase instead of a diff: a ranked list of what to delete, simplify, or replace with stdlib/native equivalents. Use when the user says "audit this codebase", "audit for over-engineering", "what can I delete from this

  • ponytail-debt

    Harvest every `ponytail:` comment in the codebase into a debt ledger, so the deliberate shortcuts and deferrals ponytail leaves behind get tracked instead of rotting into "later means never". Use when the user says "ponytail debt", "/ponytail-debt", "what did ponytail defer", "list the shortcuts", "

  • ponytail-help

    Quick-reference card for all ponytail modes, skills, and commands. One-shot display, not a persistent mode. Trigger: /ponytail-help, "ponytail help", "what ponytail commands", "how do I use ponytail".

  • ponytail-review

    Code review focused exclusively on over-engineering. Finds what to delete: reinvented standard library, unneeded dependencies, speculative abstractions, dead flexibility. One line per finding: location, what to cut, what replaces it. Use when the user says "review for over-engineering", "what can we

  • ponytail

    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

Hooks (2)

  • SessionStart

    command -v node >/dev/null 2>&1 && node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/ponytail-activate.js" || exit 0

  • UserPromptSubmit

    command -v node >/dev/null 2>&1 && node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/ponytail-mode-tracker.js" || exit 0

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