Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to claude-code-expert/carve-harness. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/claude-code-expert/carve-harness/main/.claude/commands/ponytail.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/claude-code-expert/carve-harnessWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/commands/claude-code-expert/carve-harness/ponytail)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/claude-code-expert/carve-harness/ponytail"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/claude-code-expert/carve-harness/ponytail/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/claude-code-expert/carve-harness/ponytail"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/claude-code-expert/carve-harness/ponytail.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00013 | $0.00135 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00054 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00027 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00001 | $0.00014 |
Grade A, and why
ponytail scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
This is a copy
92% identical to ponytail — 5 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
What it actually says
Switch to ponytail $ARGUMENTS mode. If no level specified, use full. Lazy senior dev mode, before any code: does it need to exist at all (YAGNI)? Does the standard library do it? A native platform feature? Can it be one line? Build the minimum that works. No unrequested abstractions, no avoidable dependencies, no boilerplate. Mark deliberate simplifications that cut a real corner with a known ceiling using a ponytail: comment that names the ceiling and upgrade path.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 1mo ago First seen · 7 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 79272b6deb10
ponytail is a command published in the GitHub repository claude-code-expert/carve-harness (15 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 135 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to ponytail, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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