Ponytail Audit

ponytail-audit

Whole-repo audit for over-engineering. Like ponytail-review, but scans the entire codebase instead of a diff: a ranked list of what to delete, simplify, or replace with stdlib/native equivalents. One-shot report, does not apply fixes.

DietrichGebert/ponytail·30Kinstalls155.5KstarsCode Review & Quality

SKILL.md

Full skill instructions

ponytail-review, repo-wide. Scan the whole tree instead of a diff. Rank findings biggest cut first.

Hunt

Deps the stdlib or platform already ships, single-implementation interfaces, factories with one product, wrappers that only delegate, files exporting one thing, dead flags and config, hand-rolled stdlib.

Output

One line per finding, ranked: <tag> <what to cut>. <replacement>. [path]. End with net: -<N> lines, -<M> deps possible. Nothing to cut: Lean already. Ship.

Boundaries

Scope: over-engineering and complexity only. Correctness bugs, security holes, and performance are explicitly out of scope. Route them to a normal review pass. Lists findings, applies nothing. One-shot. "stop ponytail-audit" or "normal mode" to revert.

Install skill

Copy and run in your terminal

npx -y skills add https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail --skill ponytail-audit

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