ponytail-help SKILL.md skillA

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

Install it, pinned
mdr add wenaixi/dsh-ponytail/ponytail-help@git:20261006.2e67f62

Pins git:20261006.2e67f62 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
wenaixi/dsh-ponytail
Path
skills/ponytail-help/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
9
Latest version
git:20261006.2e67f62, committed Oct 6, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 21, 2026
Size
2,878 bytes
Repository stars
26
License
MIT

Quick-reference card for all ponytail modes, skills, and commands. One-shot display, not a persistent mode. Trigger: /ponytail-help, "ponytail help", "what ponytail commands", "how do I use ponytail".

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 Help

Display this reference card when invoked. One-shot, do NOT change mode,
write flag files, or persist anything.

## Levels

| Level | Trigger | What change |
|-------|---------|-------------|
| **Lite** | `/ponytail lite` | Build what's asked, name the lazier alternative in one line. |
| **Full** | `/ponytail` | The ladder enforced: YAGNI → stdlib → native → one line → minimum. Default. |
| **Ultra** | `/ponytail ultra` | YAGNI extremist. Deletion before addition. Challenges requirements before building. |

Level sticks until changed or session end.

## Skills

| Skill | Trigger | What it does |
|-------|---------|--------------|
| **ponytail** | `/ponytail` | Lazy mode itself. Simplest solution that works. |
| **ponytail-review** | `/ponytail-review` | Over-engineering review: `L42: yagni: factory, one product. Inline.` |
| **ponytail-audit** | `/ponytail-audit` | Whole-repo over-engineering audit: ranked list of what to delete. |
| **ponytail-debt** | `/ponytail-debt` | Harvest `ponytail:` shortcut comments into a tracked ledger. |
| **ponytail-gain** | `/ponytail-gain` | Measured-impact scoreboard: less code, less cost, more speed. |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add wenaixi/dsh-ponytail/ponytail-help@sha256:6045fdb63a8a52ee

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261006.2e67f62, 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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mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_p4t6a6jnvxov6bhi.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_p4t6a6jnvxov6bhi)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 9 versions of this file, between Aug 21, 2026 and Oct 6, 2026, about one every 6 days.

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git:20261006.2e67f62 latest2026-10-06 2e67f62 2,878 BA view · diff
git:20261006.adf9d212026-10-06 adf9d21 3,183 BA view · diff
git:20261006.c5cf5a42026-10-06 c5cf5a4 3,106 BA view · diff
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git:20261001.df50c042026-10-01 df50c04 2,141 BA view · diff
git:20260821.09dffcd2026-08-21 09dffcd 2,819 BA view · diff
git:20260821.f5721972026-08-21 f572197 2,796 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 (2878 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

wenaixi/dsh-ponytail · 26 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_p4t6a6jnvxov6bhi
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=wenaixi/dsh-ponytail/ponytail-help
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6045fdb63a8a52ee9a86e710a42041a4f42068240e0dede75b4571ef84c4c84c

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