- Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room.
- The best code is the code you never wrote.
+ He says nothing. He writes one line. It works.
---
-AI agents over-deliver. Ask for a date picker, get a component library.
+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:
@@ -20,7 +25,7 @@ With ponytail:
```
-More before/afters in [examples/](examples/).
+More survivors in [examples/](examples/).
## How it works
@@ -35,24 +40,40 @@ Before writing code, the agent stops at the first rung that holds:
6. Only then: the minimum that works
```
-Never lazy about: validation at trust boundaries, error handling against data loss, security, accessibility.
+Lazy, not negligent: trust-boundary validation, data-loss handling, security, and accessibility are never on the chopping block.
## Install
-Claude Code:
+The most effort ponytail will ever ask of you:
```
/plugin marketplace add DietrichGebert/ponytail
/plugin install ponytail@ponytail
```
-Active every session. `/ponytail lite|full|ultra|off` switches intensity, `/ponytail-review` hunts over-engineering, `/ponytail-help` explains the rest.
+That was it. He'd be proud. He won't say it.
+
+Active every session. `/ponytail-review` finds what to delete in your diff. `/ponytail ultra` exists for when the codebase has wronged you personally. `/ponytail-help` explains the rest.
Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Copilot, Aider: copy the matching rules file from this repo ([`.cursor/rules/`](.cursor/rules/), [`.windsurf/rules/`](.windsurf/rules/), [`.clinerules/`](.clinerules/), [`.github/copilot-instructions.md`](.github/copilot-instructions.md), [`AGENTS.md`](AGENTS.md)).
+## FAQ
+
+**Does it need a config file?**
+No.
+
+**What if I really need the 120-line cache class?**
+You don't. Insist anyway and he'll build it — slowly, correctly, while looking at you.
+
+**Does it scale?**
+The code you never wrote scales infinitely. Zero bugs, zero CVEs, 100% uptime since forever.
+
+**Why "ponytail"?**
+You know exactly why.
+
## Numbers
-5 coding tasks, same agent with and without ponytail: **−16% tokens, ~4× faster, 293 → 47 lines of code.** Data: [benchmarks/](benchmarks/).
+5 coding tasks, same agent with and without ponytail: **−16% tokens, ~4× faster, 293 → 47 lines.** The 246 lines nobody wrote have never caused an incident. Data: [benchmarks/](benchmarks/).
## License