Illustrative cover generated by us — see the source repo for real examples.
How to use
- 1
Copy the install prompt
Sign in, then click the black button. One click, done.
- 2
Paste it to your agent
Send it in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or similar. It installs itself.
- 3
Ask in one sentence
Say what you want, like below, and the agent follows this skill.
/ponytail make me: Codebases bloated by agent-written codeExample message showing how to invoke it, not a real output.
What you get
- A core prompt with lite / full / ultra intensity
- ponytail-review and ponytail-audit for over-engineering
- A debt ledger of deliberate shortcuts
Good fit
- Codebases bloated by agent-written code
Not for
- Non-coding requests
This is a pack of 6 skills. The installer lists them all; pick only the ones you need (--skill <name>).
- License
- MIT
- Author
- @DietrichGebert
- Source
- DietrichGebert/ponytail/skills · ★ 156,466
Upstream description
Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.
Other ways to install
Prefer doing it yourself? These commands do the same as the button.
Read https://skilloop.dev/skills/ponytail/install.md and follow the instructions to install the skill.
npx skills add https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail -g -a claude-code
npx skills add https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail -g -a codex
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail.git /tmp/ponytail # 6 skills inside — list them, then copy the ones you want: find /tmp/ponytail/skills -name SKILL.md mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/ponytail/skills/ponytail ~/.claude/skills/ponytail
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