ponytail-audit

ponytail-audit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from loneyclown/ponytail-kimi. It costs 111 tokens per session (408 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ponytail-audit, MIT.

A repository-wide review guide for finding unnecessary complexity. It scans the whole codebase for removable code, needless dependencies, and abstractions that can be replaced with simpler built-in features.

In plain words
What is it for?
Audit a codebase for over-engineering, rank opportunities to simplify or delete, estimate possible reductions, and leave the changes unapplied.
Why use it?
It helps reveal maintenance costs spread across a project rather than only in one code change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Audit a codebase for over-engineering, rank opportunities to simplify or delete, estimate possible reductions, and leave the changes unapplied.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/loneyclown/ponytail-kimi/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 loneyclown/ponytail-kimi --skill ponytail-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/loneyclown/ponytail-kimi

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 111 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 408 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 98% 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 $0.00111 $0.00408
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00204
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00082
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00041

Measured 11d ago against content hash bfe77a1433ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 11d 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

98% identical to ponytail-audit — 4 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-audit/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

ponytail-review, repo-wide. Scan the whole tree instead of a diff. Rank findings biggest cut first.

Tags

Same as ponytail-review:

  • 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.

Hunt

Deps the stdlib or platform already ships, single-implementation interfaces, factories with one product, wrappers that only delegate, files exporting one thing, dead flags and config, hand-rolled stdlib.

Output

One line per finding, ranked: <tag> <what to cut>. <replacement>. [path]. End with net: -<N> lines, -<M> deps possible. Nothing to cut: Lean already. Ship.

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. Lists findings, applies nothing. One-shot. "stop ponytail-audit" or "normal mode" to revert.

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. 11d ago First seen · 42 lines · 111 tokens per session scan A bfe77a1433ed

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ponytail-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository loneyclown/ponytail-kimi (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 111 tokens to every session and 408 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to ponytail-audit, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.