ponytail-lite: Stop agents from over-engineering

by ilindaniel · Codex Skill · ★ 229

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Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 62/100

None of the 42 rules matched — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against 42 published rules built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours.

The quality score combines nine heuristic checks of the repo and its README: completeness, clarity, specificity, examples, structure, agent readiness, step-by-step content, instruction quality and security notes. It rates how well the project explains itself to an agent, not the code.

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Quick Facts

Stars229
Forks23
CategoryCodex Skill
LicenseMIT
Quality Score62/100
Last Updated2026-07-26
Created2026-06-28
Platformsclaude-code, codex
Est. Tokens~16k

About ponytail-lite

Ponytail Lite One file. No plugin. He would have wanted it this way. "Ponytail Lite" is Ponytail without the plugin madness. Not to be confused with Ponytail's mode. This is a separate one-file version. Just copy into the place your agent reads instructions. That's it. No plugin, hooks, commands, MCP, or mode switching.

Compatible Skills

These tools work well together with ponytail-lite for enhanced workflows:

  • forgecat-agent-profiles — semantic(0.39)+complementary+rare_topics+similar_pop+shared_platform (58%)
  • ponytail — semantic(0.54)+complementary+rare_topics+shared_platform (58%)
  • AIGX — semantic(0.38)+complementary+rare_topics+similar_pop+shared_platform (58%)
  • agentic-os — semantic(0.37)+complementary+rare_topics+similar_pop+shared_platform (57%)

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How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy: 42 published rules, covering credential harvesting, data exfiltration, curl | sh installers and more. 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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