ponytail-debt

ponytail-debt is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Wenaixi/dsh-ponytail. It costs 102 tokens per session (519 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A debt register made from `ponytail:` comments in a codebase. These comments mark deliberate shortcuts, their limits, and—when documented—the conditions for revisiting them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Scanning source files for ponytail comments, recording each shortcut and upgrade trigger, and reporting comments that lack a trigger.
Why use it?
It makes postponed cleanup visible instead of allowing temporary compromises to become forgotten permanent problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Scanning source files for ponytail comments, recording each shortcut and upgrade trigger, and reporting comments that lack a trigger.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wenaixi/dsh-ponytail/ponytail-debt
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 Wenaixi/dsh-ponytail --skill ponytail-debt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Wenaixi/dsh-ponytail

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 519 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 $0.00102 $0.00519
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00260
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00052

Measured 11d ago against content hash 71741ab6afd9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ponytail-debt 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.

skills/ponytail-debt/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

ponytail 有意留下的每个捷径都会用 ponytail: 注释标出天花板和升级路径。本技能把它们收割为一张台账,让延期不会悄悄变成永久。

扫描

在仓库中 grep 注释标记,跳过 node_modules.git 和构建产物:

grep -rnE '(#|//) ?ponytail:' . (若技术栈有其他注释前缀,请一并加入)

每个命中即为台账的一行,注释前缀可避免把正文中偶然提及约定的内容误收入台账。

输出

每行一个标记,按文件分组:

<文件>:<行号>,<简化了什么>。天花板:<注释中提到的限制>。升级:<何时回头处理的触发条件>。

约定为 ponytail: <天花板>,<升级路径>,因此天花板和触发条件直接从注释中提取。想给每行加负责人?再跑 git blame -L<行号>,<行号>

风险标记:任何未写明升级路径或触发条件的 ponytail: 注释打上 no-trigger 标签,这些是最容易悄悄腐烂的。

结尾汇总 <N> 个标记,<M> 个无触发条件。 若无命中:无 ponytail: 债务,台账干净。

边界

只读、只报告,不改任何东西。如需落盘,询问后可将台账写入文件(例如 PONYTAIL-DEBT.md)。一次性报告。「stop ponytail-debt / 正常模式」可退出。

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 · 32 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A 71741ab6afd9

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ponytail-debt is a skill published in the GitHub repository Wenaixi/dsh-ponytail (7 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 519 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 2026-08-31.

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