DietrichGebert/ponytail
Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.
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Ponytail He says nothing. He writes one line. It works. Ponytail 5: rebuilt from the ground up. -53% code · -41% time · -26% cost · -45% tokens And yet: 98% of risky logic ships with a test. Without Ponytail: 68%. Benchmarked in Claude Code, the same agent with and without the skill: 39 tasks including a real FastAPI + React repo, Opus 5.5, 5 runs each. Details. Español · 한국어 · 简体中文 · 日本語 You know him. Long ponytail. Oval glasses. Has been at the company longer than the version control. You show him fifty lines; he looks at them, says nothing, and replaces them with one. Ponytail puts him inside your AI agent. Two things the chart does not show: in a blind comparison, Ponytail 5's replies beat the previous Ponytail's 110 to 67. And on the six security tasks (SQL injection, path traversal, forged tokens, rate limiting,…
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- Already built with Ponytail
- Numbers
- Before / after
- The review, rebuilt
- The audit, rebuilt
- New in 5.3: the band
- How it works
- The prompt
- Install
- Commands
- FAQ
- Sponsors
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What this repository does
Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.
Repository facts
- Owner
- DietrichGebert
- Primary language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 181,250
- Forks
- 9,958
- Open issues + pull requests
- 142
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-06-12T00:52:37.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-29T11:59:31.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: agent-skills, ai-agents, claude, claude-code, claude-code-plugin, cursor-rules, developer-tools, llm, prompt-engineering, yagni
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