No red flags found in any of the 11 categories — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →
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Ponytail He says nothing. He writes one line. It works. You know him. Long ponytail. Oval glasses. Has been at the company longer than the version control. You show him fifty lines; he looks at them, says nothing, and replaces them with one. Ponytail puts him inside your AI agent. Before / after You ask for a date picker. Your agent installs flatpickr, writes a wrapper component, adds a stylesheet, and starts a discussion about timezones. With ponytail: More survivors in examples/. Numbers Six tasks: streaming log parser, atomic file sync, notification dispatcher, validation engine, auth module, concurrent money ledger. One spec each, one fresh agent per arm, same model. Three arms: no skill, the caveman skill, and ponytail. Every arm passes the same adversarial security and concurrency probes. Then the agreement ends: 47% fewer tokens than the no-skill agent. 3× faster. A seventh of the code. The 3,139 lines nobody wrote have never caused an incident. When a surpr
| Stars | 152,476 |
| Forks | 8,182 |
| Language | JavaScript |
| Category | Agent Tool |
| License | MIT |
| Quality Score | 69.279476379072/100 |
| Open Issues | 209 |
| Last Updated | 2026-10-03 |
| Created | 2026-06-12 |
| Platforms | claude-code, node |
| Est. Tokens | ~14k |
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ponytail is Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.. It is categorized as a Agent Tool with 152.5k GitHub stars.
ponytail is primarily written in JavaScript. It covers topics such as agent-skills, ai-agents, claude.
You can find installation instructions and usage details in the ponytail GitHub repository at github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail. The project has 152.5k stars and 8182 forks, indicating an active community.
ponytail is released under the MIT license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.
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Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.
The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.
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