ponytail-audit

ponytail-audit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from porchetthub/-https-github.com-DietrichGebert-ponytail. It costs 34 tokens per session (342 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ponytail-audit, MIT.

A whole-repository review that finds over-engineering and ranks what could be deleted, simplified, or replaced with standard-library or built-in platform features. It reports findings without applying changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify dead code, one-use interfaces, unnecessary factories, hand-built standard-library features, and other complexity, with suggested replacements and file paths.
Why use it?
It helps locate unnecessary code, dependencies, abstractions, configuration, and wrappers across the full repository instead of only in recent changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/porchetthub/-https-github.com-dietrichgebert-ponytail/ponytail-audit
Any agent
npx skills add porchetthub/-https-github.com-DietrichGebert-ponytail --skill ponytail-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/porchetthub/-https-github.com-DietrichGebert-ponytail

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-audit

README.md
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 342 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% 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 $0.00034 $0.00342
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00171
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00034

Measured 3d ago against content hash baba579ec326, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 3d 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

100% identical to ponytail-audit — 0 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.

.openclaw/skills/ponytail-audit/SKILL.md · 38 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. 3d ago First seen · 38 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A baba579ec326

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ponytail-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository porchetthub/-https-github.com-DietrichGebert-ponytail (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 342 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to ponytail-audit, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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