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ponytail

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Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

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claude plugin install ponytail@DietrichGebert

What is ponytail?

Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

What this can do

Capabilities declared by the plugin's own components — read straight from their frontmatter, not inferred.

Inherit all session tools

12 components declare no tool restrictions

~829 tokens of context used while enabled, before you invoke anything

Trust

94/100 · Excellent

1 factor scored below maximum

Unscoped tools

Documentation

README · ~12 min read

Ponytail, the lazy senior dev

Ponytail

He says nothing. He writes one line. It works.

Stars Release npm Works with 20 agents MIT license

DietrichGebert/ponytail | Trendshift DietrichGebert/ponytail | Trendshift

~54% less code (up to 94%) · ~20% cheaper · ~27% faster · 100% safe
Measured on real Claude Code sessions editing a real open-source repo (FastAPI + React), against the same agent with no skill. ~54% is the mean across 12 feature tasks (Haiku 4.5, n=4); it reaches 94% where an agent over-builds (a date picker) and is near zero where the code is already minimal. ponytail keeps every safety guard while a bare "write one-liners" prompt drops one. (The earlier single-shot benchmark reported 80-94% as a flat figure; against a fair agentic baseline that is the per-task ceiling, not the average.) Full writeup · reproduce it.

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You know him. Long ponytail. Oval glasses. Has been at the company longer than the version control. You show him fifty lines; he looks at them, says nothing, and replaces them with one.

Ponytail puts him inside your AI agent.

Before / after

You ask for a date picker. Your agent installs flatpickr, writes a wrapper component, adds a stylesheet, and starts a discussion about timezones.

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