ponytail-audit

ponytail-audit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bacnh85/pi-extensions. It costs 107 tokens per session (404 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A whole-codebase review that looks for over-engineered parts and ranks candidates for deletion, simplification, or replacement with built-in tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit a repository for code that can be removed, simplified, or replaced with standard-library or native equivalents.
Why use it?
It helps identify unnecessary abstractions and complexity across the repository, rather than only in recently changed files.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to audit a repository for code that can be removed, simplified, or replaced with standard-library or native equivalents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bacnh85/pi-extensions/ponytail-audit
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.

Any agent
npx skills add bacnh85/pi-extensions --skill ponytail-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bacnh85/pi-extensions

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 404 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 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 5.1 $0.00107 $0.00404
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00202
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00040

Measured 9d ago against content hash ebfed6e7ac83, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ponytail-audit 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 9d 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.

pi-ponytail/skills/ponytail-audit/SKILL.md · 42 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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. 9d ago First seen · 42 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A ebfed6e7ac83

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ponytail-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository bacnh85/pi-extensions (17 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 404 once invoked, 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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