ponytail-help

ponytail-help is a command for Claude Code from Cyvid7-Darus10/claude-code-config. It costs 11 tokens per session (266 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A quick reference for the available Ponytail modes, commands, and settings. Ponytail is a coding workflow that questions unnecessary complexity and favors the smallest suitable implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to look up Ponytail levels, review or audit over-engineering, collect deferred-work comments, check configuration precedence, or deactivate and resume the workflow.
Why use it?
It makes the available commands and default behavior easier to find without changing the project or saving any settings. It also explains how to switch modes or turn the workflow off.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code command (commands/*.md).

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/cyvid7-darus10/claude-code-config/ponytail-help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Cyvid7-Darus10/claude-code-config

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/cyvid7-darus10/claude-code-config/ponytail-help"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/cyvid7-darus10/claude-code-config/ponytail-help.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 11 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 266 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00011 $0.00266
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00133
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00053
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00027

Measured 6d ago against content hash e30fba984252, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ponytail-help 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 6d 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.

commands/ponytail-help.md · 6 lines

What it actually says

Show the ponytail quick reference. One shot, change nothing: do not switch mode, write flag files, or persist anything. Levels: /ponytail lite (build what's asked, name the lazier alternative in one line), /ponytail (full, the default ladder: YAGNI then stdlib then native then one line then minimum), /ponytail ultra (deletion before addition, challenges the requirement before building). Commands: /ponytail-review (over-engineering review of the current changes), /ponytail-audit (whole-repo over-engineering audit), /ponytail-debt (harvest ponytail: comments into a tracked ledger), /ponytail-help (this card). Deactivate with 'stop ponytail', 'normal mode', or /ponytail off; resume anytime with /ponytail. Default mode is full; change it with the PONYTAIL_DEFAULT_MODE environment variable (off|lite|full|ultra) or a config file at ~/.config/ponytail/config.json (Windows: %APPDATA%\ponytail\config.json) with {"defaultMode": "lite"}. Resolution order: env var, then config file, then full.

Changes

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.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 6 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A e30fba984252

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ponytail-help is a command published in the GitHub repository Cyvid7-Darus10/claude-code-config (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 266 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 2026-08-31.