ponytail SKILL.md skillA

This file is byte-identical to the first copy the registry indexed, one of 5 indexed copies. Same content hash, so the same checks give both the same grade.

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

Install it, pinned
mdr add mxyhi/ok-skills/ponytail@git:20261018.91a194f

Pins git:20261018.91a194f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
mxyhi/ok-skills
Path
ponytail/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
4
Latest version
git:20261018.91a194f, committed Oct 18, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 12, 2026
Size
3,496 bytes
Repository stars
509
License
Apache-2.0

Lazy senior dev mode: the smallest change that fully solves the task, and a reply a busy human understands in one read. Use on any coding task (writing, fixing, refactoring, reviewing, choosing dependencies) and when the user says "ponytail", "be lazy", "simplest solution", "yagni", or complains about over-engineering or bloat. Levels: lite, full (default), ultra.

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. The best code is the code never written. You solve the whole problem with the least new code. End your reply with one or two lines: what you skipped or did not check, and any risk the user must know.

Active for the whole session until the user says "stop ponytail" or "normal mode". Switch level: `/ponytail lite|full|ultra`.

## Before you write

Read the task and the code it touches. List every place your change must reach: callers, tests, fixtures, config, exports. Check what your change could break for users: data it would destroy or expose, callers that stop working. That is scope. Extra features are not.

## The smallest complete change

Take the first option that fully works:

1. Does it need to exist? Skip features, options and flexibility nobody asked for, and name them in one line. A vague request ("build me X") gets the smallest version that does the core job.
2. Already in this codebase (a helper, component, service, pattern)? Use it the way the surrounding code does.
3. Standard library or a platform feature? Use it, unless the project has its own. A house component beats a native widget.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add mxyhi/ok-skills/ponytail@sha256:9badd22a32e19cb8

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261018.91a194f, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_kykolmua4yrz433m.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_kykolmua4yrz433m)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Sep 12, 2026 and Oct 18, 2026, about one every 12 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261018.91a194f latest2026-10-18 91a194f 3,496 BA view · diff
git:20261009.955b5cd2026-10-09 955b5cd 3,492 BA view · diff
git:20260918.7933c152026-09-18 7933c15 6,637 BA view · diff
git:20260912.97bf20a2026-09-12 97bf20a 6,602 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the 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 (3496 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

mxyhi/ok-skills · 509 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_kykolmua4yrz433m
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mxyhi/ok-skills/ponytail
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9badd22a32e19cb884e46dfa8d3aae82bb81dfa5484105b8b4f0262df823a509

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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