ponytail-audit

ponytail-audit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sampleXbro/agentsmesh. It costs 105 tokens per session (394 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ponytail-audit, MIT.

A whole-codebase review for over-engineering. It scans the repository, meaning the project's files and code, for unnecessary wrappers, dependencies, configuration, abstractions, and custom versions of built-in features.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to produce a ranked list of code or dependencies to delete, simplify, or replace with standard-library or platform features. It reports findings but does not apply changes.
Why use it?
It finds simplification opportunities beyond the files in a single change and ranks the largest possible cuts first.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to produce a ranked list of code or dependencies to delete, simplify, or replace with standard-library or platform features. It reports findings but does not apply changes.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 394 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 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 5.1 $0.00105 $0.00394
Opus 5.5 $0.00042 $0.00158
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00039

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9e5dc0b550d2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 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

100% identical to ponytail-audit — 10 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.

.agents/skills/ponytail-audit/SKILL.md · 36 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. 1mo ago First seen · 36 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 9e5dc0b550d2

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ponytail-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository sampleXbro/agentsmesh (26 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 394 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to ponytail-audit, differing in 10 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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