ponytail-coding SKILL.md skillA
ponytail-coding from alfadur7/llm-wiki-newsroom is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add alfadur7/llm-wiki-newsroom/ponytail-coding@git:20260725.b52b1c6Pins git:20260725.b52b1c6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- alfadur7/llm-wiki-newsroom
- Path
.claude/skills/ponytail-coding/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260725.b52b1c6, committed Jul 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 26, 2026
- Size
- 7,870 bytes
- Repository stars
- 172
- 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 whenever the user says "ponytail", "be lazy", "lazy mode", "simplest solution", "minimal solution", "yagni", "do less", or…
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 alfadur7/llm-wiki-newsroom/ponytail-coding@sha256:772680c9a84c45adThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260725.b52b1c6, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jun 26, 2026 and Jul 25, 2026, about one every 15 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260725.b52b1c6 latest | 2026-07-25 | b52b1c6 | 7,870 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260716.e59be94 | 2026-07-16 | e59be94 | 7,265 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260626.d3457d2 | 2026-06-26 | d3457d2 | 7,221 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7870 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
alfadur7/llm-wiki-newsroom · 172 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hdn6cdm6owngnikb GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=alfadur7/llm-wiki-newsroom/ponytail-coding GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/772680c9a84c45ad611e8fb94fedc6f230fd0fc8b9b238d29dcd4e5547772245
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