dietrichgebert/ponytail · skills/ponytail-debt/SKILL.md

ponytail-debt skillA

ponytail-debt is agent-read markdown (skill) from dietrichgebert/ponytail: Harvest every `ponytail:` comment in the codebase into a debt ledger, so the deliberate shortcuts and deferrals ponytail leaves behind get tracked instead of rotting into "later means never". Use when the user says "ponytail debt", "/ponytail-debt", "what did ponytail defer", "list the shortcuts", "ponytail ledger", or "what did we mark to do later". One-shot report, changes nothing..

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

How to install

Latest version
mdr add dietrichgebert/ponytail/ponytail-debt@git:20260619.ff5d093
Exact content
mdr add dietrichgebert/ponytail/ponytail-debt@sha256:c84fba75f0ca12bf

Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.

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Versions

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260619.ff5d093 latest2026-06-19 ff5d093 1,703 BA view · diff
git:20260615.d9e14802026-06-15 d9e1480 1,706 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (1703 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

dietrichgebert/ponytail · 141,490 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-14 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_725mxccfs6zoz6ou
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dietrichgebert/ponytail/ponytail-debt
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c84fba75f0ca12bfe83f9a78ea02fd125c5dd3f1fbb18124105a489937f284e6

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