ponytail

ponytail is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from frogobox/frogo-sdk. It costs 17 tokens per session (126 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A setting that controls how strongly an agent follows a minimal, low-boilerplate coding style.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose lite, full, ultra, or off modes and to note deliberate shortcuts with their known limits and upgrade path.
Why use it?
It helps avoid unnecessary abstractions, dependencies, and code when a simpler solution is enough.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

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/frogobox/frogo-sdk/ponytail
Any agent
npx skills add frogobox/frogo-sdk --skill ponytail
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/frogobox/frogo-sdk

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/frogobox/frogo-sdk/ponytail.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/frogobox/frogo-sdk/ponytail)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/frogobox/frogo-sdk/ponytail"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/frogobox/frogo-sdk/ponytail.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 126 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00017 $0.00126
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00063
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00025
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00013

Measured 6d ago against content hash c03660e8e881, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 6d 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 · 6 lines

What it actually says

Switch to ponytail {{args}} mode. If no level specified, use full. Lazy senior dev mode, before any code: does it need to exist at all (YAGNI)? Does the standard library do it? A native platform feature? Can it be one line? Build the minimum that works. No unrequested abstractions, no avoidable dependencies, no boilerplate. Mark deliberate simplifications that cut a real corner with a known ceiling using a ponytail: comment that names the ceiling and upgrade path.

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. 6d ago First seen · 6 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A c03660e8e881

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ponytail is a skill published in the GitHub repository frogobox/frogo-sdk (21 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 126 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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