ponytail-lite

ponytail-lite is a cursor rule for Cursor from renanflustosa/octo-cluster. It costs 102 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of coding rules for choosing the smallest suitable implementation. It emphasizes reusing existing code and avoiding abstractions that the task does not need.

In plain words
What is it for?
Guiding implementation choices, deciding whether to reuse or add code, and keeping feature or bug-fix changes minimal.
Why use it?
It reduces unnecessary code, dependencies, and structure while keeping bug fixes aimed at their actual root cause.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Guiding implementation choices, deciding whether to reuse or add code, and keeping feature or bug-fix changes minimal.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/renanflustosa/octo-cluster/ponytail-lite
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/renanflustosa/octo-cluster

Made for: Cursor.

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-lite

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/renanflustosa/octo-cluster/ponytail-lite"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/renanflustosa/octo-cluster/ponytail-lite/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-lite

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/renanflustosa/octo-cluster/ponytail-lite"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/renanflustosa/octo-cluster/ponytail-lite.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 102 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 102 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00102 $0.00102
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00051
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00020
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00010

Measured 10d ago against content hash 7f35f8c5ed1c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ponytail-lite 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 10d 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.

.cursor/rules/ponytail-lite.mdc · 15 lines

What it actually says

Ponytail-lite (lazy senior dev mode)

Lazy means efficient, not careless. Climb the ladder only after reading the real flow.

YAGNI → reuse → stdlib → native → installed dep → one line → minimum code.

Bug fix = root cause once. No unrequested abstractions. Deletion over addition.

Skill: .cursor/skills/ponytail-lite/SKILL.md

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. 10d ago First seen · 15 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A 7f35f8c5ed1c

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ponytail-lite is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository renanflustosa/octo-cluster (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session, about $0.0005 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.

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