Install
$ agentstack add skill-emlembow-skills-ponytail-help ✓ scanned · ✓ verified, works with Claude Code, Cursor, and more.
Security review
✓ PassedNo issues found. Passed automated security review. · v0.1.0 How review works →
- ✓ Prompt-injection patterns
- ✓ Secret / credential exfiltration
- ✓ Dangerous shell & filesystem operations
- ✓ Untrusted network calls
- ✓ Known-malicious package signatures
What it can access
- ✓ Network access No
- ✓ Filesystem access No
- ✓ Shell / process execution No
- ✓ Environment & secrets No
- ✓ Dynamic code execution No
From automated source analysis of v0.1.0. “Used” means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it’s unsafe.
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Reliability & compatibility
Declared compatibility
Compatibility is declared by the source manifest. End-to-end runtime verification is coming, see below.
We're building live execution health for every listing: tool-call success rate, median latency, uptime, and last-checked timestamps, measured, not self-reported. It isn't live yet, so we don't show numbers we can't stand behind.
How agent discovery & health will work →About
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-help | /ponytail-help | This card. |
Codex uses @ponytail, @ponytail-review, and @ponytail-help; Claude Code and OpenCode use the slash-command forms above (OpenCode ships /ponytail and /ponytail-review).
Deactivate
Say "stop ponytail" or "normal mode". Resume anytime with /ponytail. /ponytail off also works.
Configure Default Mode
Default mode = full, auto-active every session. Change it:
Environment variable (highest priority):
export PONYTAIL_DEFAULT_MODE=ultra
Config file (~/.config/ponytail/config.json, Windows: %APPDATA%\ponytail\config.json):
{ "defaultMode": "lite" }
Set "off" to disable auto-activation on session start — activate manually with /ponytail when wanted.
Resolution: env var > config file > full.
More
Full docs + examples: https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail
Source & license
This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.
- Author: Emlembow
- Source: Emlembow/skills
- License: MIT
Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.
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Versions
- v0.1.0 Imported from the upstream source.