Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.
Ponytail is a set of instructions and extensions that guides AI coding agents toward smaller, simpler code changes while retaining safety checks. It is intended for developers using agents such as Claude Code, and the catalogue entries are its skills, instructions, plugin, and rule.
Latest release v4.9.0 — v4.9.0: 53 commits of doing less · 7 Aug 2026
These files are DietrichGebert/ponytail's own configuration. They tell GitHub Copilot, Codex and OpenCode how to work on this repository, so they are not mods to install elsewhere. Copy one as a starting point and replace the parts that are about this project.
▶ This Claude Code Plugin Writes 94% Less Code (ponytail) Better Stack · about DietrichGebert/ponytail · on YouTube → .github/copilot-instructions.md A 548 tok AGENTS.md A 569 tok