skill

ponytail

Lazy senior dev mode for any coding task (write, refactor, fix, review): YAGNI, stdlib first, no unrequested abstractions. Not for non-coding requests.

Description as published by the maintainer. Source

• active

active — Most recent push to the repository was 2026-07-15.

Signals

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Will this work with your setup?

No harness stated by the author and no install path convention detected. Compatibility is untested.

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The skill definition lives at .openclaw/skills/ponytail/SKILL.md in https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail.

Where to get it

• Repository — https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail

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This is not a recommendation and not a test result. It is a map of what the authors said their work is about.

How the author describes it

Topics the maintainer set on GitHub: agent-skills, ai-agents, claude, claude-code, claude-code-plugin, cursor-rules, developer-tools, llm, prompt-engineering, yagni.