Ponytail Review Gate
Add or operate a Ponytail adversarial review gate in a repo. Use when a user wants Ponytail minimalism, over-engineering review, or a reusable completion gate for code changes.
Install
$ agentstack add skill-emlembow-skills-ponytail-review-gate ✓ 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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Links to your public security report.[](https://agentstack.voostack.com/security/report/skill-emlembow-skills-ponytail-review-gate) Reliability & compatibility
Declared compatibility
Compatibility is declared by the source manifest. End-to-end runtime verification is coming, see below.
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Ponytail Review Gate
Use this skill when installing, explaining, or applying the Ponytail review gate to a project.
What It Provides
- Ponytail mode: prefer YAGNI, standard library, native platform features, installed dependencies, one-line fixes, then minimum custom code.
- Ponytail review: diff-only review for unnecessary complexity.
- Ponytail audit: optional whole-repo over-engineering audit, only when explicitly requested.
- Ponytail adversarial review gate: mandatory completion gate for code-writing tasks.
Gate Text
Add this to a target repo's AGENTS.md:
For any task that writes, edits, refactors, scaffolds, or reviews code in this repo, use the `ponytail-adversarial-review` skill from the `ponytail-review-gate` plugin.
The completion gate is mandatory: run Ponytail adversarial review on the changed code, decide corrective actions, apply accepted fixes, and verify before finishing.Completion Workflow
- Keep Ponytail's ladder in mind before editing.
- After editing, collect the changed surface with
git status --shortand relevant diffs. - Run
ponytail-reviewagainst changed code only. - Accept, reject, or defer each finding.
- Apply accepted fixes.
- Verify with the smallest relevant check.
Do not run ponytail-audit for ordinary per-diff completion. Reserve it for explicit whole-repo audit requests.
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.