ponytail SKILL.md skillA
ponytail from dietrichgebert/ponytail is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add dietrichgebert/ponytail/ponytail@git:20261016.df9e899Pins git:20261016.df9e899 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- dietrichgebert/ponytail
- Path
skills/ponytail/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- git:20261016.df9e899, committed Oct 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 18, 2026
- Size
- 3,496 bytes
- Repository stars
- 182,080
- License
- MIT
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
mdr add dietrichgebert/ponytail/ponytail@sha256:9badd22a32e19cb8The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261016.df9e899, 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_prfayrbiksvwq5id)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between Jun 18, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026, about one every 17 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261016.df9e899 latest | 2026-10-16 | df9e899 | 3,496 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.2a1fe84 | 2026-10-08 | 2a1fe84 | 3,492 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.01cbf81 | 2026-10-08 | 01cbf81 | 3,483 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260710.b6c0448 | 2026-07-10 | b6c0448 | 6,637 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260629.0e3fd0c | 2026-06-29 | 0e3fd0c | 6,707 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260622.dedc97c | 2026-06-22 | dedc97c | 6,482 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260619.cf9cbd5 | 2026-06-19 | cf9cbd5 | 5,199 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260618.fe963ca | 2026-06-18 | fe963ca | 5,770 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 (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
dietrichgebert/ponytail · 182,080 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_prfayrbiksvwq5id GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dietrichgebert/ponytail/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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