ponytail-slim

ponytail-slim is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Zhuxi140/codex-agent-switch. It costs 38 tokens per session (226 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A minimal coding-workflow rule set for a child agent. It tells the agent to inspect existing code and tests, make only the changes required, reuse available solutions, and report unverified work or conflicts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide small, focused implementation tasks where the requested behavior and acceptance checks are already defined.
Why use it?
It reduces unnecessary abstractions, dependencies, refactoring, and scope expansion. It also keeps safety, validation, and data-integrity requirements from being dropped in the name of brevity.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to guide small, focused implementation tasks where the requested behavior and acceptance checks are already defined.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zhuxi140/codex-agent-switch/ponytail-slim
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 Zhuxi140/codex-agent-switch --skill ponytail-slim
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Zhuxi140/codex-agent-switch

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 226 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 $0.00038 $0.00226
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00090
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00045
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00023

Measured 12d ago against content hash 334b780ebb54, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-28, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ponytail-slim 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 12d 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.

src-tauri/bundled-skills/ponytail-slim/SKILL.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

Ponytail Slim

选择满足任务的最小、最直接方案。

Rules

  • 修改前先读取真实实现、调用方和既有测试,不猜测接口或行为。
  • 优先复用现有代码、标准库和平台原生能力,不为单次需求新增抽象或依赖。
  • 只修改任务和验收标准直接要求的范围,不顺手重构相邻代码。
  • 删除本次改动产生的无用代码,但不清理无关遗留问题。
  • 运行与风险相称的最小验证,并明确报告失败和未验证项。
  • 发现范围、决策或磁盘事实冲突时停止并交还 Primary,不自行扩展任务。

最小实现不得削弱输入校验、安全、数据完整性、无障碍或用户明确要求。

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 21 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 334b780ebb54

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ponytail-slim is a skill published in the GitHub repository Zhuxi140/codex-agent-switch (6 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 226 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-16.