ponytail

ponytail is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from 8thpark/geode. It costs 184 tokens per session (1,610 once invoked), scanned A, original, GPL-3.0.

A skill that encourages the simplest solution that meets the need, including questioning whether a task is necessary and considering built-in tools before extra code or dependencies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deciding whether to build a feature and when choosing between a small existing tool and a custom implementation.
Why use it?
It helps reduce unnecessary code, dependencies, and maintenance.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/8thpark/geode/ponytail
Any agent
npx skills add 8thpark/geode --skill ponytail
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/8thpark/geode

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/8thpark/geode/ponytail.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/8thpark/geode/ponytail)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/8thpark/geode/ponytail"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/8thpark/geode/ponytail.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 184 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,610 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00184 $0.01610
Opus 5 $0.00092 $0.00805
Sonnet 5 $0.00037 $0.00322
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00161

Measured 4d ago against content hash 1316a2f3f957, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ponytail 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 4d 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.

.agents/skills/ponytail/SKILL.md · 121 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 4d ago First seen · 121 lines · 184 tokens per session scan A 1316a2f3f957

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ponytail is a skill published in the GitHub repository 8thpark/geode (35 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed GPL-3.0. It adds 184 tokens to every session and 1,610 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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