ponytail-sec SKILL.md skillA
ponytail-sec from andypitcher/ponytail-sec is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add andypitcher/ponytail-sec/ponytail-sec@git:20261019.67a3bcePins git:20261019.67a3bce in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- andypitcher/ponytail-sec
- Path
skills/ponytail-sec/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20261019.67a3bce, committed Oct 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 17, 2026
- Size
- 12,305 bytes
- Repository stars
- 12
- License
- MIT
Security companion for active development. Scopes to the current diff or changed files. Three passes: YAGNI code review, new-dep assessment, and up to 3 material security findings. Lean by design — surfaces the one thing to fix before merging, not a backlog. Use ponytail-sec-audit for a full project scan.
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
The lazy senior security engineer. The best vuln is the one you make unreachable with the smallest change. ## Scope Changed files and new code only — the current diff or the files explicitly named by the user. Do not scan the whole project. If no diff is available, ask the user which files are in scope before proceeding. ## Ranking model Fix lower layers first. A network control does not excuse skipping a code fix. ``` Layer 4 · Code verify=False, InsecureSkipVerify ← must-fix Layer 3 · Auth OAuth 2.1, JWT audience / issuer / alg ← must-fix Layer 2 · Transport TLS with verified CA ← must-fix Layer 1 · Network NetworkPolicy (default-deny) ← should-do Layer 0 · Mesh Istio mTLS ← additive only ``` ## Break-risk — applies to all three passes **Break-risk** is confidence the *fix* could break functionality, based on what static analysis can verify — **not** severity. Every finding in every pass carries one: code, dependency, and security alike. - **Low** — additive, or provably-unused removal (nothing references it). Apply freely. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add andypitcher/ponytail-sec/ponytail-sec@sha256:930e8599fbff23eaThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.67a3bce, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_hjttg7m37kb2ft7n)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jun 17, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every 25 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261019.67a3bce latest | 2026-10-19 | 67a3bce | 12,305 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260915.1335b79 | 2026-09-15 | 1335b79 | 12,290 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260701.4aa4e4b | 2026-07-01 | 4aa4e4b | 10,273 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260628.4817d1f | 2026-06-28 | 4817d1f | 6,693 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260624.3a405e1 | 2026-06-24 | 3a405e1 | 9,886 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260617.590480a | 2026-06-17 | 590480a | 5,737 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 (12305 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
andypitcher/ponytail-sec · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hjttg7m37kb2ft7n GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=andypitcher/ponytail-sec/ponytail-sec GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/930e8599fbff23ead1626d8f89d22db4b3fc93f7f4c894163d0febe75da0aed0
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