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.
A one-shot scoreboard showing ponytail's measured benchmark impact
(less code, less cost, more speed) as plain ASCII bars, then points to
/ponytail-debt and /ponytail-audit for this repo's real numbers.
Complements the existing skills rather than duplicating them: debt
harvests the ponytail: ledger, audit finds what's cuttable, gain shows
the measured why-it-matters. No per-repo savings number is ever printed
-- the unbuilt version was never written, so there is no real baseline
to subtract from in a live repo. The bars carry the published benchmark
medians (5 tasks, 3 models); per-repo figures come from debt's count.
Ships every adapter the other commands ship: Claude commands/*.toml,
OpenCode .opencode/command/*.md, OpenClaw skill (generated), Pi command
registration. Help card, command enumeration, portability table, and
README updated in the same change.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds .openclaw/skills/ (ponytail + review/audit/debt/help) generated from the canonical skills/ (verbatim body, no drift), a generator script, and a drift test. Verified live: loads as Ready in OpenClaw 2026.6.6.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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