surgical-patch
Skill0 starsChanged 26 days agoMITView on GitHub
Fix bugs and small behavior changes at the narrowest responsible layer. Use when regression proof, preserved surrounding behavior, and task-relevant tests matter.
14 other projects use a version of this, 1 of them edited.
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- sudeepgupta90/my-ai-marketplaceword for word, first seen Nov 8, 2026
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- MMACABRE/SKILLSword for word, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- jjsizemore/jjskillsword for word, first seen Nov 1, 2026
- pengawasmknan/claude-skillsword for word, first seen Oct 11, 2026
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Projects with it also use ponytail, ponytail-review and 7 more.
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GoogleSkillponytail
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).
Also in 5 projects that use this
GoogleSkillponytail-review
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.
Also in 3 projects that use this
AWSSkillwait-what
Stop. That last message did not land: re-pitch it.
Also in 4 projects that use this
AWSSkillwizard
Generate an interactive bash wizard that walks a human through steps only they can perform. Use when provisioning infrastructure, setting up credentials or CI secrets, walking an unfamiliar third-party dashboard, or running a one-off migration or cutover. Don't invoke this for steps the agent can perform itself.
Also in 3 projects that use this
AnasX7Skilldesign-taste-frontend
Anti-slop frontend skill for landing pages, portfolios, and redesigns. The agent reads the brief, infers the right design direction, and ships interfaces that do not look templated. Real design systems when applicable, audit-first on redesigns, strict pre-flight check.
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Other versions14 projects use a version of this.
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- JuliusBrussee/caveman★ 118k100% same
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- xingtu1996/dsh-xingtu-skills★ 2100% same
- dhruvsaxena1998/skills★ 1100% same
- jjsizemore/jjskills★ 1100% same
- mjlueck-hash/caveman★ 1100% same
- MMACABRE/SKILLS★ 1100% same
- YogirajA/Claude-Skills★ 1100% same
- IsaacBell/ai-marketing-toolkit★ 0100% same
- pengawasmknan/claude-skills★ 0100% same
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Edited · 1
- Gopyr/gopyr-skills-hub★ 049% same
Wrote their own version · 1
- iansteitz1-eng/aria-skills★ 0same name
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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The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
3 rules. About 0 are common, 3 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 13
Avoid cleanup, renaming, and abstraction outside fix.
- Distinctive: line 14
Add only regression proof relevant to task.
- Distinctive: line 16
Run focused proof plus nearest affected gate.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Surgical patch
Reproduce failure first when economical; otherwise capture strongest available evidence.
- Trace symptom to responsible mechanism.
- Change narrowest layer that owns incorrect behavior.
- Preserve unrelated behavior and user changes.
- Avoid cleanup, renaming, and abstraction outside fix.
- Add only regression proof relevant to task.
Run focused proof plus nearest affected gate. Stop when failure is fixed and regression proof passes.
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