Repository
DietrichGebert/ponytail agent skills
- skills
- 5
- GitHub stars
- 158k
GitHub description: “Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.”
- Stars
- 157,742 (8,472 forks)
- Licence
- MIT
- Last push
- Oct 2026
- Created
- Jun 2026
- Homepage
- ponytail.dev
- agent-skills
- ai-agents
- claude
- claude-code
- claude-code-plugin
- cursor-rules
- developer-tools
- llm
- prompt-engineering
- yagni
Install all skills
npx skills add DietrichGebert/ponytailAdd --skill <name> for a single skill and -a <agent> to choose the agent (see the agent guides).
Skills in DietrichGebert/ponytail, ranked
Ranked by score. Sort bymost stars,trending,newest,recently updated
| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Show ponytail's measured savings (code, cost, speed) from the benchmark. One-shot display. Use for /ponytail-gain, "what does ponytail save"… | DietrichGebert/ | 158k | — | ~507 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 2 | Shows a one-shot quick-reference card for the ponytail skills: intensity levels, the six commands, and how to turn it off, set a default mode and update. | DietrichGebert/ | 158k | — | ~728 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 3 | Makes the agent pick the laziest solution that works: skip unneeded work, reuse what exists, prefer the standard library and platform features, and keep diffs small. | DietrichGebert/ | 158k | — | ~871 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 4 | Quality audit of a whole repo: bugs, security holes, what breaks under real load, risky code without tests, slow paths, and what to delete, merge or split. | DietrichGebert/ | 158k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 5 | Reviews a diff only for unnecessary complexity and lists what to delete or shrink, one numbered line per finding with the location, the cut and its replacement. | DietrichGebert/ | 158k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best skill in DietrichGebert/ponytail?
Ponytail Gain Scoreboard from DietrichGebert/ponytail ranks first of the 5 skills in DietrichGebert/ponytail listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 158k GitHub stars, its SKILL.md loads about 507 tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Ponytail Help Card and Ponytail Lazy Developer Mode.
Are the skills in DietrichGebert/ponytail official?
None yet. All 5 skills in DietrichGebert/ponytail listed here come from community repositories; a skill counts as official when the product's own GitHub organization publishes it.
How do I install all skills from DietrichGebert/ponytail?
Run npx skills add DietrichGebert/ponytail in your project: the open-source skills CLI installs the repository's skills into your coding agent's skills folder. To install a single skill, open its page here for the exact command.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.