Dietrich Gebert publishes a set of skills under the Ponytail name that guide an AI agent through codebase work, most notably full-repository audits that rank bugs, security holes, load risks, missing tests and code that should be deleted or merged. Other skills in the series cover a lazy-senior-developer mode aimed at the smallest change that fully solves a coding task, a debt ledger that collects shortcut comments so they get tracked, and reference and benchmark displays that explain the Ponytail commands and report measured savings.
Ponytail
12 skills · 185,775 stars · MIT
Ponytail Lazy senior dev mode for any coding task: the smallest change that fully solves it, and a reply a…
Ponytail Lazy senior dev mode: the smallest change that fully solves the task, and a reply a busy human un…
Ponytail Audit Quality audit of a whole repo: bugs, security holes, what breaks under real load, risky code with…
Ponytail Audit Quality audit of the whole repo: bugs, security, real load, missing tests, speed, and what to del…
Ponytail Debt List every `shortcut:` comment (and older `ponytail:` ones) as a debt ledger.
Ponytail Debt Harvest every shortcut: comment into one debt ledger, so deferrals get tracked instead of forgotten.
Ponytail Gain Show ponytail measured impact as a scoreboard: less code, less cost, more speed, from the agentic…
Ponytail Gain Show ponytail's measured savings (code, cost, speed) from the benchmark.
Ponytail Help Quick reference for ponytail's modes, skills, and commands.
Ponytail Help Quick reference for ponytail levels, skills and commands.
Ponytail Review Quality review of a diff: bugs, security, real load, missing tests, speed, and what to delete.
Ponytail Review Quality review of a change: is the logic right, is it safe, does it hold under real load, is risk…