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EmerikoandClaude Opus 4.8 e181b89ac0 chore(ponytail-mcp): mark private, drop dead bin
ponytail-mcp reuses the repo's hooks/ via createRequire("../hooks/..."), which
reaches outside the package dir, so it can only run from a checkout (as its
README says), never as a published npm package — a publish tarball wouldn't
include ../hooks/ and would crash. The `bin` field and missing `private` made
it look publishable. Mark it private so an accidental `npm publish` can't ship
a broken package, and drop the dead bin (you point the host at ponytail-mcp/index.js).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-19 01:56:56 +02:00
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Más sobrevivientes en [examples/](examples/).
> **Combina bien con** [Modern Web Guidance](https://github.com/GoogleChrome/modern-web-guidance) para trabajo web: ponytail decide *si* apoyarse en la plataforma, MWG es cómo el agente busca *qué* feature nativa hace el trabajo. Ver [examples/web-platform-lookup.md](examples/web-platform-lookup.md).
## Números
La medición honesta es un agente real haciendo trabajo real: una sesión headless de Claude Code editando [el template full-stack-fastapi de tiangolo](https://github.com/fastapi/full-stack-fastapi-template) (un repo real de FastAPI + React), evaluada sobre el `git diff` que deja. Doce tickets de feature, el mismo agente con y sin el skill, n=4, Haiku 4.5.
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More survivors in [examples/](examples/).
> **Pairs well with** [Modern Web Guidance](https://github.com/GoogleChrome/modern-web-guidance) for web work: ponytail decides *whether* to lean on the platform, MWG is how the agent looks up *which* native feature does the job. See [examples/web-platform-lookup.md](examples/web-platform-lookup.md).
## Numbers
The honest measurement is a real agent doing real work: a headless Claude Code session editing [tiangolo's full-stack-fastapi-template](https://github.com/fastapi/full-stack-fastapi-template) (a real FastAPI + React repo), scored on the `git diff` it leaves behind. Twelve feature tickets, the same agent with and without the skill, n=4, Haiku 4.5.
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# Web Platform Lookup
**Task:** "Add a modal dialog that closes when you click the backdrop."
Rung 3 of the ladder is "native platform feature covers it?" On web work the
trap is that the agent forgets what the platform already does and reaches for a
library. When ponytail has [Modern Web Guidance](https://github.com/GoogleChrome/modern-web-guidance)
on hand, rung 3 gets a lookup: `modern-web search "modal dialog light dismiss"`.
## Without Ponytail
```bash
npm install @radix-ui/react-dialog
```
```jsx
import * as Dialog from "@radix-ui/react-dialog";
export default function Modal({ open, onOpenChange, children }) {
return (
<Dialog.Root open={open} onOpenChange={onOpenChange}>
<Dialog.Portal>
<Dialog.Overlay className="overlay" />
<Dialog.Content className="content">
{children}
<Dialog.Close className="close">×</Dialog.Close>
</Dialog.Content>
</Dialog.Portal>
</Dialog.Root>
);
}
```
A dependency, a portal, an overlay node, and controlled open state, to put a
box on top with a backdrop.
## With Ponytail
`modern-web search "modal dialog light dismiss"`
`modern-web retrieve light-dismiss-a-dialog`. The platform has it:
```html
<!-- ponytail: <dialog> + closedby, browser does the backdrop, focus trap, and Esc -->
<dialog closedby="any">
<p>...</p>
</dialog>
```
```js
document.querySelector("dialog").showModal();
```
**1 dependency + portal/overlay machinery → 0 dependencies + a `<dialog>`.**
The `::backdrop` is free, focus is trapped and restored for you, `Esc` closes
it, and `closedby="any"` adds click-outside dismissal. The browser team did the
work.
## The point
MWG suggests the cutting edge, ponytail keeps only the rung that holds. The
lookup found `light-dismiss-a-dialog`; the ladder took it because it deletes a
dependency. The same search would have offered scroll-driven animations and
view transitions for other tasks, and the ladder would have skipped them when
the task didn't need them. Lookup, not license.
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The ladder is a reflex, not a research project. Two rungs work → take the
higher one and move on. The first lazy solution that works is the right one.
## Web tasks: rung 3 lookup
On web work, rung 3 is where the laziest win hides: a native element or CSS
behavior the agent forgot exists. If a web task turns on whether the platform
covers it (a date input, dialog, popover, view transition, container query),
and the `modern-web` CLI is available, look it up: `modern-web search "<task>"`,
then `modern-web retrieve <id>`. It is a lookup, not a license, the answer
still goes through the ladder. MWG suggests the cutting edge; you keep only the
rung that holds. Not installed? Skip it, the ladder runs fine without it.
## Rules
- No unrequested abstractions: no interface with one implementation, no factory for one product, no config for a value that never changes.