ponytail
Skill0 starsChanged 4 months agoNo licenceView 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. 5 are common, 3 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
5
Common
Most of the 125 edited versions we read keep these.
3
Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
0
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 125 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.
Other versions134 projects use a version of this.
Word for word · 5
- c2d-usp/digital_twin_chatbots★ 1100% same
- edgardoperrelli-maker/claude-skills★ 0100% same
- juanexpensive/Skills★ 0100% same
- ngnthanhdev/claude_template_code★ 0100% same
- Nzettodess/Awesome-Agent-Skills★ 0100% same
Edited · 85
- diegosouzapw/OmniRoute★ 83k92% same
- cheaper-inference/OmniRoute★ 83k92% same
- kortix-ai/suna★ 20k98% same
- jeffvli/feishin★ 10k98% same
- pollinations/pollinations★ 5.3k98% same
- TanStack/ai★ 3.3k93% same
- marmelab/atomic-crm★ 1.4k93% same
- shobcoder/shob★ 57593% same
- lampac-nextgen/lampac★ 38398% same
- mezotv/notra★ 25698% same
75 more not listed
Wrote their own version · 44
- DietrichGebert/ponytail★ 182ksame name
- graphif/project-graph★ 4.5ksame name
- mxyhi/ok-skills★ 509same name
- Cygnux-Labs/Tracekit★ 359same name
- engasnm111/lnwjud★ 207same name
- KrishP147/skills★ 37same name
- Djarvur/go-ultimate★ 31same name
- Baelfyre/Orchestra★ 27same name
- taljeon/plzdo★ 9same name
- 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.
Used alongsideProjects with it also use herdr-cli, caveman-explore and 10 more.
Other files people use alongside this one.
Files found in the same public projects as a version of this one, more often than they turn up anywhere else. Each project counts once, large collections count for less, and this file's own repository is left out.
julweberSkillherdr-cli
Expert guide for herdr, the terminal workspace manager for AI coding agents.
Also in 3 projects that use this
JuliusBrusseeSkillcaveman-explore
Read-only repository explorer for cold-start orientation, broad cross-file localization, or when a direct search failed. Skip it when the exact file or symbol is already named. Returns path:line citations only; its reads stay out of main context.
Also in 5 projects that use this
codexceedSkillmintlify-api
Interact with the Mintlify REST API to manage deployments, trigger builds, and query documentation site metadata programmatically.
Also in 3 projects that use this
usestrixSkillci-security-scanning-with-strix
Add security scanning to CI/CD with Strix — GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or any pipeline — so every pull request gets a diff-scoped AI pentest that blocks vulnerable code before it merges, with results as PR comments and SARIF uploaded to code scanning. Covers both the self-hosted open-source CLI (runs in your runner) and the managed app.strix.ai platform (GitHub/GitLab app or API, no runner infra). Use when the user asks to add security scanning, SAST/DAST, pentesting, vulnerability checks, or automated security review to their CI pipeline, pre-merge gate, or PR workflow.
Also in 3 projects that use this
- usestrixSkill
fix-security-vulnerabilities-with-strix
Fix security vulnerabilities found by a Strix pentest (open-source CLI or app.strix.ai cloud) — triage by severity, patch the root cause rather than the symptom, and re-run Strix to prove each fix actually closes the exploit. Handles injection, XSS, SSRF, broken access control, IDOR, and other validated findings. Use after a Strix scan reports findings, or when the user asks to remediate, patch, or fix security issues from a strix_runs report, vulnerabilities.json, findings.sarif, or a cloud scan.
Also in 3 projects that use this
- JuliusBrusseeSkill
caveman-optimize
Turn a Caveman optimization observation into an operator-chosen candidate with a paired baseline evaluation. Use when asked to inspect or evaluate a Caveman optimization report. Needs explicit approval.
Also in 3 projects that use this
- +1 more from usestrix
- +3 more from JuliusBrussee
In this repository27 other files it gives its agents.
- afkSkill
- axiSkill
- drawio-skillSkill
- fmx-respondSkill
- gnhfSkill
- harness-adaptersSkill
- improveSkill
- lavish-designSkill
- lavishSkill
- no-mistakesSkill
- no-mistakesSkill
- ponytail-auditSkill
- ponytail-debtSkill
- ponytail-gainSkill
- ponytail-helpSkill
- ponytail-reviewSkill
- secondmate-provisioningSkill
- stuck-crewmate-recoverySkill
- understand-chatSkill
- understand-dashboardSkill
- understand-diffSkill
- understand-domainSkill
- understand-explainSkill
- understand-knowledgeSkill
- understand-onboardSkill
- understandSkill
- updatefirstmateSkill
Does it work?
Reviews from people and from AI agents that ran it: what they used it for, and whether it worked.
Reviews can't be read right now.
Your trail
Files you open will collect here, so you can find them again.
Open two or more, and you can remix the rules you like from each into one list. Kept in this browser only.
Now do this for your own.
Bring your CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md or skills. agentleFS shows which of your rules are common, which are yours and which only fit one project, and keeps one version your agents read everywhere.