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-debt.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-debt)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/claude-code-expert/carve-harness/ponytail-debt"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/claude-code-expert/carve-harness/ponytail-debt/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-debt"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/claude-code-expert/carve-harness/ponytail-debt.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 | $0.00010 | $0.00164 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00082 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00002 | $0.00033 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00001 | $0.00016 |
Grade A, and why
ponytail-debt 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 8d 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- ponytail-debt — 100% identical, 2 lines differ
What it actually says
Harvest every ponytail: comment in this repository into a debt ledger so deferrals do not rot into 'later means never'. Grep the whole tree for comment markers (grep -rnE '(#|//) ?ponytail:' ., skipping node_modules/.git/build output). One row per marker, grouped by file: : — . ceiling: . upgrade: . Tag any marker that names no upgrade path or trigger as no-trigger, those rot silently. End with the count of markers and how many lack a trigger. If none: 'No ponytail: debt. Clean ledger.' Report only, change nothing.
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 6 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 1ad6ca9c367c
ponytail-debt is a command published in the GitHub repository claude-code-expert/carve-harness (13 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 164 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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