ponytail-gain

ponytail-gain is a command for Claude Code from sampleXbro/agentsmesh. It costs 15 tokens per session (237 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ponytail-gain, MIT.

A command that displays Ponytail's benchmark scoreboard for code size, cost, and speed. The figures come from published tests across several everyday tasks and models, not from the current repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect Ponytail's published benchmark results and understand how its approach performed in those tests.
Why use it?
It gives a reported comparison without pretending to calculate savings for a project that has no measured baseline.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to inspect Ponytail's published benchmark results and understand how its approach performed in those tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/samplexbro/agentsmesh/ponytail-gain
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sampleXbro/agentsmesh

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for ponytail-gain

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/samplexbro/agentsmesh/ponytail-gain/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/samplexbro/agentsmesh/ponytail-gain)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/samplexbro/agentsmesh/ponytail-gain"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/samplexbro/agentsmesh/ponytail-gain/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for ponytail-gain

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/samplexbro/agentsmesh/ponytail-gain"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/samplexbro/agentsmesh/ponytail-gain.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 237 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00015 $0.00237
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00095
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00047
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00024

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 3f8895302693, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ponytail-gain 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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to ponytail-gain — 4 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.

.agentsmesh/packs/dietrichgebert-ponytail-pack/commands/ponytail-gain.md · 6 lines

What it actually says

Show the ponytail gain scoreboard. One shot, change nothing: do not switch mode, write flag files, or persist anything. Render the published benchmark medians (5 everyday tasks; models Haiku, Sonnet, Opus; source benchmarks/ and the README) as plain ASCII bars: Lines of code, no-skill 100% vs ponytail 6-20% (down 80-94%); Cost, no-skill 100% vs ponytail 23-53% (down 47-77%); Speed, ponytail 3-6x faster. The bar length shows the measured range, the label carries the exact figure. These are benchmark medians, not this repo. NEVER print a per-repo savings number: the unbuilt version was never written, so there is no real baseline to subtract from in a live repo. For real per-repo figures, point to /ponytail-debt (the counted shortcut ledger) and /ponytail-audit (what is still cuttable). Report only.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 6 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 3f8895302693

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ponytail-gain is a command published in the GitHub repository sampleXbro/agentsmesh (25 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 237 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-gain, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.