ponytail-gain

ponytail-gain is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tarunag10/ai-switchboard. It costs 83 tokens per session (492 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ponytail-gain, MIT.

A one-time scoreboard showing published benchmark medians for Ponytail across five coding tasks and three models, covering code size, cost, and speed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to view Ponytail's benchmark impact in a compact text display. It also points to commands for reviewing remaining repository complexity and Ponytail's benchmark source.
Why use it?
It provides measured overall results instead of claiming savings for the current repository, where no unbuilt baseline exists.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to view Ponytail's benchmark impact in a compact text display. It also points to commands for reviewing remaining repository complexity and Ponytail's benchmark source.

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

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-gain

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tarunag10/ai-switchboard/ponytail-gain/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tarunag10/ai-switchboard/ponytail-gain)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tarunag10/ai-switchboard/ponytail-gain"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tarunag10/ai-switchboard/ponytail-gain/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for ponytail-gain

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tarunag10/ai-switchboard/ponytail-gain"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tarunag10/ai-switchboard/ponytail-gain.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 492 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 $0.00083 $0.00492
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00246
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00098
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00049

Measured 11d ago against content hash 24e01d1c9715, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ponytail-gain 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

100% identical to ponytail-gain — 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-gain/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

Ponytail Gain

Display this scoreboard when invoked. One-shot: do NOT change mode, write flag files, or persist anything.

The figures are the published benchmark medians (5 everyday tasks: email validator, debounce, CSV sum, countdown timer, rate limiter; three models: Haiku, Sonnet, Opus). They are measured, not computed from the current repo. Source: benchmarks/ and the README.

Scoreboard

Render plain ASCII bars. The bar length shows the measured range; the label carries the exact figure:

  ponytail gain                     benchmark median · 5 tasks · 3 models

  Lines of code   no-skill  ████████████████████  100%
                  ponytail  ██▌·················    6–20%   ▼ 80–94%
  Cost            no-skill  ████████████████████  100%
                  ponytail  █████▌··············   23–53%  ▼ 47–77%
  Speed           ponytail  ▸ 3–6× faster

  This repo:  /ponytail-debt  (shortcuts you deferred)
              /ponytail-audit (what's still cuttable)

Honesty boundary

These are benchmark medians, not this repo. NEVER print a per-repo savings number ("you saved X lines/tokens here"): the unbuilt version was never written, so there is no real baseline to subtract from in a live repo. The only real per-repo figures come from /ponytail-debt (a counted ledger), and this card points there instead of inventing one.

Boundaries

One-shot display. Edits nothing, changes no mode. "stop ponytail" or "normal mode": 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 · 51 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 24e01d1c9715

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ponytail-gain is a skill published in the GitHub repository tarunag10/ai-switchboard (2 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 492 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to ponytail-gain, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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