Run or generate a gauntlet loop for one-shot prompts, UI work, writing, research, and implementation. Use when the user says gauntlet, beat this reference, polish until better, make a one-shot prompt, compare against a real product, or loop with a harsh critic.
User-invoked, at-your-own-risk mode. Finishes any task; ignores other skills' judgement stops; leaves commit, push, and merge to the human; waits for a push then a PR merge.
Run a coding task as a closed maker→checker loop with an explicit done-condition and rubric, iterating until the goal is verifiably met instead of stopping after one pass. Use when the user wants an agent loop, "loop engineering", a self-verifying build, maker-checker, "keep going until it's done/passes", autonomous…
Run one task through several model/provider agents in isolated worktrees, relay cross-critiques, and compare the final artifacts. Use when the user invokes /multi-agent-review, wants competing implementations/plans/fixes, or explicitly runs the preserved legacy fleet's multi-model mechanism.
Audit a whole repository for over-engineering; use when the user asks to audit a codebase, find bloat, or invokes ponytail-audit. One-shot and read-only.
Show Ponytail's measured impact as a one-shot scoreboard; use for ponytail gain, savings, impact, or scoreboard requests without changing files or mode.
Review a diff exclusively for over-engineering; use when the user asks what can be deleted, whether code is over-engineered, or invokes ponytail-review.
Forces the laziest solution that actually works; use on coding tasks or when the user says ponytail, be lazy, simplest solution, YAGNI, do less, or complains about over-engineering, bloat, boilerplate, or unnecessary dependencies. Do not use for non-coding requests.
Commit and push a verified handoff plus its artifacts, only under explicit authority, and prove the push happened by reading the remote SHA back. Use as the final delivery step after artifacts are ready, when the user asks to push work, or when a handoff needs to reach the remote. Refuses to claim success without…
Sets up this skills repo on a new machine — installs the skills with the vskills CLI, then regenerates the local-only context docs (CONTEXT.md, docs/) that are deliberately not published in the public repo.
User-invoked session close. Syncs CONTEXT/ and the issue tracker, writes a handoff, then commits and pushes under /snapshot authority. Use when the user runs /snapshot.