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Ponytail

Lazy senior dev mode for Claude Code. Forces the simplest, shortest solution that actually works: YAGNI, stdlib before custom code, native platform features before dependencies, one line before fifty — no unrequested abstractions.

Imported from DietrichGebert/ponytail (MIT, © Dietrich Gebert).

What's in the box

• `ponytail` — the mode itself (levels: lite, full, ultra).
• `ponytail-review` — over-engineering review of the current diff.
• `ponytail-audit` — whole-repo over-engineering audit.
• `ponytail-debt` — harvest ponytail: comments into a debt ledger.
• `ponytail-gain` — measured-impact scoreboard from the benchmarks.
• `ponytail-help` — quick-reference card.
• `activate` (setup) — SessionStart/SubagentStart/UserPromptSubmit hooks that

keep ponytail mode on every turn; configurable via PONYTAIL_DEFAULT_MODE.