pseolint: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/ponytail-audit/SKILL.md

ponytail-audit is a skill for Claude Code from ouranos-labs/pseolint. It costs 105 tokens per session (389 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ponytail-audit, MIT.

A whole-codebase review that looks for unnecessary complexity, such as dead code, needless dependencies, and abstractions with only one use. It ranks suggested cuts and changes nothing automatically.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit a repository for over-engineering and receive ranked suggestions for deletions, simpler replacements, or shorter code.
Why use it?
It helps identify code and dependencies that can be deleted or simplified across the repository, rather than reviewing only recent changes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is ouranos-labs/pseolint's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on pseolint itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything pseolint configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ouranos-labs/pseolint. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ouranos-labs/pseolint/main/.claude/skills/ponytail-audit/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ouranos-labs/pseolint

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 389 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 89% 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 $0.00105 $0.00389
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00195
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00039

Measured 12d ago against content hash c0f03b6e1d95, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 12d 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

89% identical to ponytail-audit — 5 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.

.claude/skills/ponytail-audit/SKILL.md · 41 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

Complexity only, correctness bugs, security holes, and performance go 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. 12d ago First seen · 41 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A c0f03b6e1d95

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ponytail-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository ouranos-labs/pseolint (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 389 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to ponytail-audit, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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