ponytail-audit

ponytail-audit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tarunag10/ai-switchboard. It costs 105 tokens per session (402 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ponytail-audit, MIT.

A whole-codebase review that looks for unnecessary complexity, such as unused code, needless dependencies, and abstractions with only one use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit an entire repository for over-engineering and receive a ranked list of possible cuts or simpler replacements. It does not review security, correctness, or performance problems.
Why use it?
It helps identify what can be deleted or simplified when a repository has grown more complicated than its needs. It reports findings but does not change files.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to audit an entire repository for over-engineering and receive a ranked list of possible cuts or simpler replacements. It does not review security, correctness, or performance problems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tarunag10/ai-switchboard/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 tarunag10/ai-switchboard --skill ponytail-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tarunag10/ai-switchboard

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 402 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 $0.00402
Opus 5.5 $0.00042 $0.00161
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00040

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5560b8e383db, 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 — 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.

third_party/ponytail/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. 1mo ago First seen · 42 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 5560b8e383db

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ponytail-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository tarunag10/ai-switchboard (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 402 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 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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