ponytail-review

ponytail-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tarunag10/ai-switchboard. It costs 100 tokens per session (576 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ponytail-review, MIT.

A code-review guide focused on finding unnecessary complexity and code that can be removed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review changes for over-engineering and receive concise findings that name what to cut and what simpler replacement to use.
Why use it?
It helps identify extra dependencies, abstractions, flexibility, and duplicated standard-library features that make a codebase harder to maintain.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to review changes for over-engineering and receive concise findings that name what to cut and what simpler replacement to use.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 576 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 $0.00100 $0.00576
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.00288
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00115
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00058

Measured 11d ago against content hash 40df33b58fc6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ponytail-review 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-review — 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-review/SKILL.md · 58 lines

What it actually says

Review diffs for unnecessary complexity. One line per finding: location, what to cut, what replaces it. The diff's best outcome is getting shorter.

Format

L<line>: <tag> <what>. <replacement>., or <file>:L<line>: ... for multi-file diffs.

Tags:

  • 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.

Examples

❌ "This EmailValidator class might be more complex than necessary, have you considered whether all these validation rules are needed at this stage?"

L12-38: stdlib: 27-line validator class. "@" in email, 1 line, real validation is the confirmation mail.

L4: native: moment.js imported for one format call. Intl.DateTimeFormat, 0 deps.

repo.py:L88: yagni: AbstractRepository with one implementation. Inline it until a second one exists.

L52-71: delete: retry wrapper around an idempotent local call. Nothing replaces it.

L30-44: shrink: manual loop builds dict. dict(zip(keys, values)), 1 line.

Scoring

End with the only metric that matters: net: -<N> lines possible.

If there is nothing to cut, say Lean already. Ship. and stop.

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, not this one. A single smoke test or assert-based self-check is the ponytail minimum, not bloat, never flag it for deletion. Does not apply the fixes, only lists them. "stop ponytail-review" or "normal mode": revert to verbose review style.

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 · 58 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 40df33b58fc6

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ponytail-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository tarunag10/ai-switchboard (2 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 576 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to ponytail-review, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.