#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>
#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>
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>
