feat: publish ponytail as an installable npm package for OpenCode and Pi (#197)

* feat: register slash commands from .opencode/command/*.md

Add parseCommandFile() to read frontmatter-described markdown files
and wire them into opencode's config.command during init.

Extend the config hook to scan .opencode/command/ and register each
.md file as a named slash command.

Update the plugin doc comment to reflect the npm install path
(opencode-ponytail) vs the old relative path.

* chore: rename package to opencode-ponytail

Align package name with npm convention for opencode plugins.
Update keywords to include opencode-plugin and opencode tags.
Fix description back to original correct wording (grammatical
regression introduced during editing).

* chore: add npm metadata and publish workflow

Add author, homepage, repository, bugs, main, exports, files, and
publishConfig fields to package.json for npm publishing.

Add .github/workflows/publish.yml to auto-publish to npm on version
tags (v*) with provenance.

* docs: add npm plugin install for opencode-ponytail

---------

Co-authored-by: Emeriko <dietrich.gebert@gmail.com>

.github/workflows/publish.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+name: publish
+
+on:
+  push:
+    tags: ['v*']
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions:
+  id-token: write
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  publish:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
+          node-version: '22'
+          registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'
+      - run: npm publish --provenance --access public
+        env:
+          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}

.opencode/plugins/ponytail.mjs

@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 // ponytail — OpenCode plugin.
 //
 // Injects the ponytail ruleset into every chat's system prompt at the active
-// intensity, and persists /ponytail mode switches. Reuses the shared instruction
-// builder so Claude Code, Codex, pi, and OpenCode all read one source of truth.
+// intensity, persists /ponytail mode switches, and registers slash commands so
+// they work when the package is installed from npm. Reuses the shared
+// instruction builder so Claude Code, Codex, pi, and OpenCode all read one
+// source of truth.
 //
 // OpenCode loads this as a server plugin — add it to your opencode.json:
-//   { "plugin": ["./.opencode/plugins/ponytail.mjs"] }
+//   { "plugin": ["opencode-ponytail"] }
 
 import { createRequire } from 'module';
 import fs from 'fs';
@@ -40,6 +42,15 @@ function writeMode(mode) {
   fs.writeFileSync(statePath, mode);
 }
 
+export function parseCommandFile(filePath) {
+  const content = fs.readFileSync(filePath, 'utf8');
+  // Tolerate CRLF: a Windows checkout (autocrlf) delivers \r\n, npm ships \n.
+  const match = content.match(/^---\r?\n([\s\S]*?)\r?\n---\r?\n([\s\S]*)$/);
+  if (!match) return null;
+  const description = match[1].match(/description:\s*(.+)/)?.[1]?.trim();
+  return { description, template: match[2].trim() };
+}
+
 export default async ({ client } = {}) => {
   const log = (level, message) => {
     try { client && client.app && client.app.log({ body: { service: 'ponytail', level, message } }); } catch (e) {}
@@ -48,8 +59,18 @@ export default async ({ client } = {}) => {
   const ponytailSkillsDir = path.resolve(__dirname, '../../skills');
 
   return {
-    // Register skills directory so opencode discovers ponytail skills.
+    // Register slash commands + skills directory.
     config: async (config) => {
+      if (!config.command) config.command = {};
+      const commandDir = path.join(__dirname, '..', 'command');
+      try {
+        for (const file of fs.readdirSync(commandDir).filter((f) => f.endsWith('.md'))) {
+          const name = path.basename(file, '.md');
+          const parsed = parseCommandFile(path.join(commandDir, file));
+          if (parsed) config.command[name] = parsed;
+        }
+      } catch (e) {}
+
       config.skills = config.skills || {};
       config.skills.paths = config.skills.paths || [];
       if (!config.skills.paths.includes(ponytailSkillsDir)) {

README.md

@@ -154,7 +154,13 @@ pi install git:github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail
 
 ### OpenCode
 
-Run OpenCode from a checkout of this repo (the plugin reuses its `hooks/` and `skills/`), and add to `opencode.json`:
+Add to `opencode.json`:
+
+```json
+{ "plugin": ["opencode-ponytail"] }
+```
+
+Run from a checkout instead (the plugin reuses `hooks/` and `skills/`):
 
 ```json
 { "plugin": ["./.opencode/plugins/ponytail.mjs"] }

package.json

@@ -1,14 +1,43 @@
 {
-  "name": "ponytail",
+  "name": "opencode-ponytail",
   "version": "4.8.1",
   "description": "Lazy senior dev mode for AI agents. The best code is the code you never wrote.",
-  "keywords": ["pi-package", "pi", "skills", "ponytail"],
+  "keywords": ["opencode-plugin", "opencode", "ponytail", "pi-package", "pi", "skills"],
   "license": "MIT",
+  "author": {
+    "name": "Dietrich Gebert",
+    "url": "https://github.com/DietrichGebert"
+  },
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail",
+  "repository": {
+    "type": "git",
+    "url": "git+https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail.git"
+  },
+  "bugs": {
+    "url": "https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail/issues"
+  },
+  "main": "./.opencode/plugins/ponytail.mjs",
+  "exports": {
+    ".": "./.opencode/plugins/ponytail.mjs",
+    "./plugin": "./.opencode/plugins/ponytail.mjs"
+  },
+  "files": [
+    "AGENTS.md",
+    "hooks/",
+    "skills/",
+    ".opencode/",
+    "pi-extension/",
+    "assets/",
+    "LICENSE"
+  ],
   "scripts": {
     "test": "node --test tests/*.test.js && npm test --prefix pi-extension"
   },
   "pi": {
     "extensions": ["./pi-extension/index.js"],
     "skills": ["./skills"]
+  },
+  "publishConfig": {
+    "access": "public"
   }
 }

tests/opencode-plugin.test.js

@@ -18,10 +18,12 @@ process.env.XDG_CONFIG_HOME = tmp;
 delete process.env.PONYTAIL_DEFAULT_MODE;
 const statePath = path.join(tmp, 'opencode', '.ponytail-active');
 
-let loadPlugin;
+let loadPlugin, parseCommandFile;
 test.before(async () => {
   const url = pathToFileURL(path.join(__dirname, '..', '.opencode', 'plugins', 'ponytail.mjs'));
-  loadPlugin = (await import(url)).default;
+  const mod = await import(url);
+  loadPlugin = mod.default;
+  parseCommandFile = mod.parseCommandFile;
 });
 
 function transform(hooks) {
@@ -61,4 +63,21 @@ test('unrelated commands do not touch the flag', async () => {
   assert.equal(fs.existsSync(statePath), false);
 });
 
+test('parseCommandFile reads frontmatter description + body, LF and CRLF', () => {
+  const lf = path.join(tmp, 'cmd-lf.md');
+  fs.writeFileSync(lf, '---\ndescription: do a thing\n---\n\nthe template body\n');
+  assert.deepEqual(parseCommandFile(lf), { description: 'do a thing', template: 'the template body' });
+
+  // Windows checkouts (autocrlf) deliver CRLF — the parser must still match.
+  const crlf = path.join(tmp, 'cmd-crlf.md');
+  fs.writeFileSync(crlf, '---\r\ndescription: do a thing\r\n---\r\n\r\nthe template body\r\n');
+  assert.deepEqual(parseCommandFile(crlf), { description: 'do a thing', template: 'the template body' });
+});
+
+test('parseCommandFile returns null when there is no frontmatter', () => {
+  const bare = path.join(tmp, 'cmd-bare.md');
+  fs.writeFileSync(bare, 'no frontmatter here\n');
+  assert.equal(parseCommandFile(bare), null);
+});
+
 test.after(() => fs.rmSync(tmp, { recursive: true, force: true }));