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Ponytail Improved
Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.
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Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.
Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.
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P O N Y T A I L
He says nothing. He writes one line. It works.
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54% less code · 20% cheaper · 27% faster · 100% guards kept · MIT
Install · Before / after · How it works · Numbers · Commands · FAQ
You know him. Long ponytail. Oval glasses. Been at the company longer than the version control. You show him fifty lines; he says nothing and replaces them with one.
Ponytail puts him inside your AI agent. Skills plus two lifecycle hooks, installed in one command.
npm install
npx .
You ask for a date picker.
your agent ponytail
───────────────────────────────── ─────────────────────────────
3 files 1 line
50 lines
1 dependency <input type="date">
1 open thread about timezones
the browser already has one
Before writing code, the agent goes down the ladder and stops at the first rung that holds.
1 does this need to exist? → no. skip it. (yagni)
2 is it already in this repo? → reuse it
3 does the stdlib do it? → use it
4 does the platform do it? → use it
5 does an installed dep do it? → use it
6 can it be one line? → write the line
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
7 nothing above held → the minimum that works
The ladder runs after it understands the problem, not instead of it. Lazy about the solution, never about reading.
**Lazy, not n
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P O N Y T A I L
He says nothing. He writes one line. It works.
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`54% less code` · `20% cheaper` · `27% faster` · `100% guards kept` · `MIT`
[**Install**](#install) · [Before / after](#before--after) · [How it works](#how-it-works) · [Numbers](#numbers) · [Commands](#commands) · [FAQ](#faq)
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---
You know him. Long ponytail. Oval glasses. Been at the company longer than the
version control. You show him fifty lines; he says nothing and replaces them
with one.
Ponytail puts him inside your AI agent. Skills plus two lifecycle hooks,
installed in one command.
```bash
npm install
npx .
```
## Before / after
You ask for a date picker.
```text
your agent ponytail
───────────────────────────────── ─────────────────────────────
3 files 1 line
50 lines
1 dependency <input type="date">
1 open thread about timezones
the browser already has one
```
## How it works
Before writing code, the agent goes down the ladder and **stops at the first
rung that holds.**
```text
1 does this need to exist? → no. skip it. (yagni)
2 is it already in this repo? → reuse it
3 does the stdlib do it? → use it
4 does the platform do it? → use it
5 does an installed dep do it? → use it
6 can it be one line? → write the line
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
7 nothing above held → the minimum that works
```
The ladder runs *after* it understands the problem, not instead of it.
Lazy about the solution, never about reading.
> **Lazy, not nSource structure unverified
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Quality
99/100
Excellent
Trust
75/100
Sandbox only
Audit
89
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