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DietrichGebert/ponytail

AI agentsJavaScript#agent-skills#ai-agents#claude#claude-code#claude-code-plugin
Total stars
179,826
Today
+654since 00:03 UTC
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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.

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About the project

A skill for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Copilot CLI, OpenCode) that enforces writing only the minimum necessary code via a laziness ladder: YAGNI, reuse, stdlib, native features. Benchmarks show ~54% less code and ~20% cheaper without losing safety.

Useful for
  • Install the plugin in Claude Code so the agent stops over-building features
  • Cut the size and cost of agent edits in an existing repository
  • Review an agent's diff with /ponytail-review for unnecessary code

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4.6 Steady Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score.

Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 29, 2026, 15:35 UTC.

The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.

Stars per day

01,5003,000August 1, 2026October 29, 2026

Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.

Why it’s trending

  • Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-29 (UTC), 00:03–15:19: 179172 → 179826 stars (+654). This is the change over that interval.
  • Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +1,013 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
  • GitHub Trending this month: #18, +32,691 stars.
  • About 91 forks a day — people are taking the code.

Measured growth: the last 7 completed days

New stars over 7 days: 7,531. -12% versus the preceding 7 days.

Daily measurements · UTC
October 22, 2026
1,849
October 23, 2026
1,045
October 24, 2026
729
October 25, 2026
754
October 26, 2026
1,078
October 27, 2026
1,016
October 28, 2026
1,060

Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 1,934 · October 20, 2026. Days with data: 30.

Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: October 29, 2026, 15:34 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →

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What they do, why they are gaining interest, and what to check before using them.

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Numbers

Total stars
179,826
Today
+654 stars measured 2026-10-29, 00:03–15:19 UTC, ≈ 1,013 by evening
Forks
9,863
Issues and pull requests
1,306
Watchers
414
Language
JavaScript
License
MIT
Latest release
v5.3.3 · October 29, 2026
Created
June 12, 2026
Last push
October 29, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

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