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ponytail

Skill10k starsChanged 3 months agoGPL-3.0View on GitHub

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).

We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent

8 rules. 0 are common, 8 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.

  • 0

    Common

    Most of the 90 edited versions we read keep these.

  • 8

    Distinctive

    This author's own choices. Worth a look.

  • 0

    Very specific

    Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.

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“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 90 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

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Week of Aug 30: 2 new projectsWeek of Sep 6: 2 new projectsWeek of Sep 13: 5 new projectsWeek of Sep 20: 0 new projectsWeek of Sep 27: 4 new projectsWeek of Oct 4: 4 new projectsWeek of Oct 11: 2 new projectsWeek of Oct 18: 1 new project
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Who's talking about jeffvli/feishin

The biggest 5 of 70 mentions linking to the repository that our crawl found. Each line is their own headline.

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Talked about on GitHub, Bluesky, the web and Hacker News (70 times).

On GitHub · 50

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On Bluesky · 13

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On Hacker News · 1

  • Other versions134 projects use a version of this.

    Word for word · 40

    1. kortix-ai/suna★ 20k100% same
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    3. lampac-nextgen/lampac★ 361100% same
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    6. ja-plus/stk-table-vue★ 196100% same
    7. jacred-fdb/jacred★ 128100% same
    8. immisterio/Lampac★ 77100% same
    9. Wenaixi/dsh-ponytail★ 36100% same
    10. 8thpark/geode★ 34100% same

    30 more not listed

    Edited · 50

    1. diegosouzapw/OmniRoute★ 83k94% same
    2. cheaper-inference/OmniRoute★ 83k94% same
    3. TanStack/ai★ 3.3k90% same
    4. marmelab/atomic-crm★ 1.4k90% same
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    10. Yassimba/loom★ 997% same

    40 more not listed

    Wrote their own version · 44

    1. DietrichGebert/ponytail★ 182ksame name
    2. graphif/project-graph★ 4.5ksame name
    3. mxyhi/ok-skills★ 509same name
    4. Cygnux-Labs/Tracekit★ 359same name
    5. engasnm111/lnwjud★ 207same name
    6. KrishP147/skills★ 37same name
    7. Djarvur/go-ultimate★ 31same name
    8. Baelfyre/Orchestra★ 27same name
    9. taljeon/plzdo★ 9same name
    10. nesnilnehc/ai-cortex★ 8same name

    34 more not listed

    How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.

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