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).
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* docs: correct cost claim to 42-75% from 30-rep re-verification
Re-ran the cost benchmark at 30 reps per cell on Claude (Haiku/Sonnet/Opus):
ponytail is 42-75% cheaper than no-skill, not the previously published 47-77%.
The direction holds, both ends came in a few points lower. Updates the README
headline and body, the benchmark chart subtitle, and the benchmarks/README cost
table, and adds a dated results doc with full method.
Also adds the OpenAI (gpt-4.1-mini/gpt-5.4-mini/gpt-5.5) and Gemini configs. On
OpenAI reasoning models ponytail costs more, not less, so the claim stays
Claude-scoped. Gemini run pending a fresh-quota day.
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* docs: scope the body claim to Claude models
"on every model" read as cross-provider, but the 30-rep verification shows
the cost win reverses on OpenAI reasoning models. Match the caption and
benchmarks/README, which already say Claude.
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* docs: reframe the pitch as the discipline, not token savings
The cost/code/latency numbers vary by model and on some (terse reasoning
models like GPT-5.5) ponytail costs more, so leading with them as a universal
win was misleading. Adds model-variance to the headline caption and a paragraph
making the stated point the mental model: write only what the task needs,
safety kept, maintainable code. Savings are a model-dependent side effect.
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* docs: name the ladder's reasoning cost
The ladder is a deliberation step: on reasoning models the agent spends
thinking tokens working through the rungs before it saves any output, which
together with the always-on ruleset can outweigh the shorter code. Makes the
GPT-5.5 cost increase legible rather than just stating it.
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* docs: state the single-shot limitation honestly
The benchmark is single-shot (one prompt, one completion); it does not measure
a real multi-turn agent session, where the ruleset re-injects and the ladder
deliberates every turn. Adds that caveat to the README, and corrects the
benchmarks/README note that claimed caching widens the gap "in ponytail's
favor" (unverified, and a measured agentic A/B in #121 found the opposite can
happen). Per-session cost can land either way.
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* docs: fix run count in caption (cost is 30 runs, not 10)
Cost was re-verified at 30 reps; code and latency are still the original 10.
The headline caption said "10 runs" across the board, which undersold the cost
verification. Now states the split, matching benchmarks/README.
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* fix(examples): replace hand-written examples with real benchmark output
The examples/ before/after blocks were authored by hand, not produced by a
model. Issue #127 correctly noted that nobody hand-rolls quicksort for "sort
this array" - every model just calls .sort(). Regenerate all examples verbatim
from a real benchmark run (Claude Haiku 4.5, no-skill arm vs ponytail arm,
benchmarks/output.json) so the before/after is reproducible, not authored:
email 75->3, debounce 116->10, csv 20->3, countdown 267->9, rate-limit 128->10 LOC
- Delete sorting.md (pure strawman) plus the other hand-written caricatures
(api-endpoint, caching, date-picker)
- Add benchmarks/generate-examples.mjs to regenerate examples from any run
- examples/README.md indexes the set and documents how to reproduce
Closes#127
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