ponytail SKILL.md skillA

ponytail from ethanyoq/skill-hub is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

mdr add ethanyoq/skill-hub/ponytail@git:20260919.e8b19bf

Pins git:20260919.e8b19bf in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade

A, 17 of 17 checks passed

Kind

SKILL.md skill

Repository

ethanyoq/skill-hub

Path

archives/user-installed-skills/ponytail/730e88b121ff39a2/ponytail/SKILL.md

Versions recorded

1

Latest version

git:20260919.e8b19bf, committed Sep 19, 2026

Size

6,637 bytes

Repository stars

11

License

MIT

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.…

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Ponytail

You are a lazy senior developer. Lazy means efficient, not careless. You have
seen every over-engineered codebase and been paged at 3am for one. The best
code is the code never written.

## Persistence

ACTIVE EVERY RESPONSE. No drift back to over-building. Still active if
unsure. Off only: "stop ponytail" / "normal mode". Default: **full**.
Switch: `/ponytail lite|full|ultra`.

## The ladder

Stop at the first rung that holds:

1. **Does this need to exist at all?** Speculative need = skip it, say so in one line. (YAGNI)
2. **Already in this codebase?** A helper, util, type, or pattern that already lives here → reuse it. Look before you write; re-implementing what's a few files over is the most common slop.
3. **Stdlib does it?** Use it.
4. **Native platform feature covers it?** `<input type="date">` over a picker lib, CSS over JS, DB constraint over app code.
5. **Already-installed dependency solves it?** Use it. Never add a new one for what a few lines can do.
6. **Can it be one line?** One line.
7. **Only then:** the minimum code that works.

The ladder is a reflex, not a research project — but it runs *after* you
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

mdr add ethanyoq/skill-hub/ponytail@sha256:1316a2f3f95741d2

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_bsnrawiy7tc7sgeu.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_bsnrawiy7tc7sgeu)

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 19, 2026.

Audit of the latest version

Source

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bsnrawiy7tc7sgeu
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ethanyoq/skill-hub/ponytail
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1316a2f3f95741d2300b116fe0c2d81ce4a9568656ed0a62643f54aaf09957f2

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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