ponytail-audit

ponytail-audit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tianemon/EasyMint. It costs 105 tokens per session (389 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A whole-codebase review method that finds unnecessary complexity and ranks what could be deleted, simplified, or replaced with built-in functionality. It reports findings but does not change the code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit a repository for over-engineering, identify removable code or packages, and suggest shorter standard-library or platform-native replacements.
Why use it?
It helps locate dead code, unused configuration, needless abstractions, and dependencies that add maintenance work without being needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to audit a repository for over-engineering, identify removable code or…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tianemon/easymint/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 tianemon/EasyMint --skill ponytail-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tianemon/EasyMint

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tianemon/easymint/ponytail-audit"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tianemon/easymint/ponytail-audit.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 389 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 original No closer match found 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 $0.00389
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00195
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00039

Measured 7d ago against content hash c0f03b6e1d95, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 7d 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

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

resources/skills/ponytail-audit/SKILL.md · 41 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

Complexity only, correctness bugs, security holes, and performance go 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. 7d ago First seen · 41 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A c0f03b6e1d95

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ponytail-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository tianemon/EasyMint (32 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 389 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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