#245 "Dangerously lazy": add an operational "fix the root cause, not the
symptom" directive — grep every caller of the function you touch and fix the
shared function once (the smaller diff). Validated on the agentic benchmark: on
a shared-helper bug-fix trap, baseline fixes the root cause 1/6 while ponytail
does 6/6 on both Sonnet 4.6 (the model the issue was filed on) and Opus 4.8,
verified by reading the produced code. Plain prose ("trace the flow") did not
move it; the actionable, lazy-framed directive did.
#217 "Missing rung": add ladder rung 2 "Already in this codebase? Reuse it,
don't re-write it." Propagated across SKILL.md, AGENTS.md, all agent mirror
copies, the hook fallback, and both READMEs (check-rule-copies passes).
Benchmark: 4 new deterministic quality-tier tasks (reuse-slug, reuse-money,
trace-transfer, trace-amount) with selftest-proven good/bad refs; harness gains
multi-file seed support in --selftest, distinctive-behaviour reuse detection,
and counts in-file __main__/demo() self-checks as test LOC (not source bloat)
for surgical tasks. Full writeup in
benchmarks/results/2026-06-22-issue-245-217-comprehension.md.
Also carries the in-progress todo-null benchmark task already present in the
working tree.
Co-authored-by: Dietrich Gebert <dgebert@Dietrichs-MacBook-Pro.local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Em dashes crept back into examples, docs/platform-native.md, several READMEs,
the ponytail-debt skill, and a command file since 88431de. Replaced with plain
punctuation (commas, matching the house convention), .openclaw mirror
regenerated. Follows 88431de's scope: leaves untouched the vendored caveman
SKILL.md and the dated benchmarks/results/ writeups (historical records).
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#163 clarified the audit/review Boundaries scope but reintroduced em dashes,
which this repo deliberately purged (commit 88431de "replace em dashes with
plain punctuation across prose"). Keeps the clearer wording, swaps the em dash
for a period. .openclaw mirrors regenerated; suite green.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#82 added a "Web tasks: rung 3 lookup" section to the always-on ponytail
SKILL.md, about an external `modern-web` CLI most users won't have installed.
It's optional bloat in the always-on ruleset, and it broke CI by leaving the
.openclaw mirror stale.
Reverts the section from skills/ponytail/SKILL.md, the README callout, and
examples/web-platform-lookup.md, then regenerates the .openclaw mirror and
removes the Spanish callout that #174 had mirrored. Suite green (56/56).
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#82 added the "Web tasks: rung 3 lookup" section to skills/ponytail/SKILL.md
but did not run scripts/build-openclaw-skills.js, so the committed
.openclaw/skills/ponytail/SKILL.md mirror drifted from its source. The two
generator-sync tests in tests/openclaw-skills.test.js have failed on main
since that merge. Regenerated the mirror; suite is green again.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Boundaries line opened with "Complexity only, correctness bugs, security
holes, and performance go to a normal review pass." The comma after "Complexity
only" fuses the in-scope item with the out-of-scope list, so a model parsing it
literally can read all four categories as targets of the audit — the opposite of
intent.
Restate the boundary as an explicit scope fence: name what is in scope, then
mark correctness/security/performance as explicitly out of scope. "Out of scope"
is phrasing models reliably honor as a constraint. Also aligns the scope term
with each skill's stated purpose (over-engineering).
Applied to both skills/ and the .openclaw/ mirror so the two trees stay in sync.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
