Trigger ponytail skill on any coding task, not just keywords

The skill description was written keyword-first ("use when the user
says lazy / complains about boilerplate"), so a model-invoked host
only loaded it on prompts that hit those words. Plain coding tasks
(add a date picker, write a dedupe function, build a cache, fix a bug)
were skipped, exactly the over-build cases ponytail is best at.

Tested via a skill-router proxy (3 runs, 12 labeled prompts): recall
on coding tasks was 2/6 before, 6/6 after, with precision unchanged at
6/6 (no false fires on non-coding prompts). Fix is one clause naming
coding tasks explicitly plus a negative clause to keep precision.

Trigger descriptions live in two source-of-truth spots, both updated:
skills/ponytail/SKILL.md and the DESCRIPTIONS map in
scripts/build-openclaw-skills.js (.openclaw regenerated). The store
blurbs in the plugin manifests are listing metadata, not triggers, so
they are left alone.
This commit is contained in:
Emeriko
2026-06-29 07:06:59 +02:00
parent c4d1925ae9
commit 0e3fd0cfee
3 changed files with 10 additions and 7 deletions
+1 -1
View File
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
name: ponytail
description: "Lazy senior dev mode. Forces the simplest, shortest solution that works: YAGNI, stdlib first, no unrequested abstractions."
description: "Lazy senior dev mode for any coding task (write, refactor, fix, review): YAGNI, stdlib first, no unrequested abstractions. Not for non-coding requests."
homepage: https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail
license: MIT
---
+1 -1
View File
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ const ROOT = path.join(__dirname, '..');
const HOMEPAGE = 'https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail';
const DESCRIPTIONS = {
'ponytail': 'Lazy senior dev mode. Forces the simplest, shortest solution that works: YAGNI, stdlib first, no unrequested abstractions.',
'ponytail': 'Lazy senior dev mode for any coding task (write, refactor, fix, review): YAGNI, stdlib first, no unrequested abstractions. Not for non-coding requests.',
'ponytail-review': 'Review a diff for over-engineering. Finds what to delete: reinvented stdlib, needless deps, speculative abstractions. One line per finding.',
'ponytail-audit': 'Audit the whole repo for over-engineering. A ranked list of what to delete, simplify, or replace with stdlib or native features.',
'ponytail-debt': 'Harvest every ponytail: shortcut comment into one debt ledger, so deferrals get tracked instead of forgotten. One-shot report.',
+8 -5
View File
@@ -5,11 +5,14 @@ description: >
minimal. Channels a senior dev who has seen everything: question whether the
task needs to exist at all (YAGNI), reach for the standard library before
custom code, native platform features before dependencies, one line before
fifty. Supports intensity levels: lite, full (default), ultra. Use whenever
the user says "ponytail", "be lazy", "lazy mode", "simplest solution",
"minimal solution", "yagni", "do less", or "shortest path", and whenever
they complain about over-engineering, bloat, boilerplate, or unnecessary
dependencies.
fifty. Supports intensity levels: lite, full (default), ultra. Use on ANY
coding task: writing, adding, refactoring, fixing, reviewing, or designing
code, and choosing libraries or dependencies. Also use whenever the user
says "ponytail", "be lazy", "lazy mode", "simplest solution", "minimal
solution", "yagni", "do less", or "shortest path", or complains about
over-engineering, bloat, boilerplate, or unnecessary dependencies. Do NOT
use for non-coding requests (general knowledge, prose, translation,
summaries, recipes).
argument-hint: "[lite|full|ultra]"
license: MIT
---