ponytail-review-skill

ponytail-review-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from darellchua2/opencode-config-template. It costs 48 tokens per session (622 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ponytail-review, Apache-2.0.

A code review focused on finding unnecessary complexity in a proposed change. It points out what to delete or simplify and suggests a concrete replacement without editing the code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a diff for dead code, hand-written standard-library replacements, one-use interfaces, unnecessary wrappers, and opportunities to shorten the implementation.
Why use it?
It helps keep a change smaller by catching unused flexibility, needless dependencies, duplicated platform features, and abstractions added before they are needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it to review a diff for dead code, hand-written standard-library replacements, one-use interfaces, unnecessary wrappers, and opportunities to shorten the implementation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/darellchua2/opencode-config-template/ponytail-review-skill
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 darellchua2/opencode-config-template --skill ponytail-review-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/darellchua2/opencode-config-template

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 622 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 84% 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 $0.00048 $0.00622
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00249
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00062

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a47d25ca95b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ponytail-review-skill 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

84% identical to ponytail-review — 120 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.

skills/ponytail-review-skill/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Review diffs for unnecessary complexity. One line per finding: location, what to cut, what replaces it. The diff's best outcome is getting shorter.

Format

L<line>: <tag> <what>. <replacement>., or <file>:L<line>: ... for multi-file diffs.

Tags:

  • delete: dead code, unused flexibility, speculative feature. Replacement: nothing.
  • stdlib: hand-rolled thing the standard library ships. Name the function.
  • native: dependency or code doing what the platform already does. Name the feature.
  • yagni: abstraction with one implementation, config nobody sets, layer with one caller.
  • shrink: same logic, fewer lines. Show the shorter form.

Examples

❌ "This EmailValidator class might be more complex than necessary, have you considered whether all these validation rules are needed at this stage?"

✅ L12-38: stdlib: 27-line validator class. "@" in email, 1 line, real validation is the confirmation mail.

✅ L4: native: moment.js imported for one format call. Intl.DateTimeFormat, 0 deps.

✅ repo.py:L88: yagni: AbstractRepository with one implementation. Inline it until a second one exists.

✅ L52-71: delete: retry wrapper around an idempotent local call. Nothing replaces it.

✅ L30-44: shrink: manual loop builds dict. dict(zip(keys, values)), 1 line.

Scoring

End with the only metric that matters: net: -<N> lines possible.

If there is nothing to cut, say Lean already. Ship. and stop.

Boundaries

Scope: over-engineering and complexity only. Correctness bugs, security holes, and performance are explicitly out of scope. Route them to a normal review pass, not this one. A single smoke test or assert-based self-check is the ponytail minimum, not bloat, never flag it for deletion. Does not apply the fixes, only lists them. "stop ponytail-review" or "normal mode": revert to verbose review style.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 lines

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 Changed a47d25ca95b4
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 61 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 8cd476aa3857

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ponytail-review-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository darellchua2/opencode-config-template (6 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 622 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 84% identical to ponytail-review, differing in 120 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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