ponytail-review
Skill0 starsChanged 4 months agoNo licenceView on GitHub
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 delete", "is this over-engineered", "simplify review", or invokes /ponytail-review. Complements correctness-focused review, this one only hunts complexity.
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
2 rules. 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
0
Common
Most of the 37 edited versions we read keep these.
1
Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
1
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
No licence file, so all rights are reserved — read it at the source. We count its rules but don't quote them. Read them on GitHub.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 37 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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- jacred-fdb/jacred★ 138100% same
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- KenSuh/open-agent-harness★ 9100% same
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Edited · 17
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Wrote their own version · 23
- DietrichGebert/ponytail★ 182ksame name
- Cygnux-Labs/Tracekit★ 359same name
- engasnm111/lnwjud★ 207same name
- Djarvur/go-ultimate★ 31same name
- shaderera/shaderera★ 7same name
- ZerroDevs/AgentsHub★ 4same name
- Jay-1409/skills★ 2same name
- krimvp/xpl★ 2same name
- qihangzhang-272/agent-skill-library★ 2same name
- Eclipter/agents★ 1same name
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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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