Ben YounesandClaude Opus 4.8
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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>
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| name | description |
|---|---|
| ponytail-gain | Show ponytail's measured impact as a compact scoreboard: less code, less cost, more speed, from the benchmark medians. One-shot display, not a persistent mode, and not a per-repo number. Trigger: /ponytail-gain, "ponytail gain", "what does ponytail save", "show ponytail impact", "ponytail scoreboard". |
Ponytail Gain
Display this scoreboard when invoked. One-shot: do NOT change mode, write flag files, or persist anything.
The figures are the published benchmark medians (5 everyday tasks: email
validator, debounce, CSV sum, countdown timer, rate limiter; three models:
Haiku, Sonnet, Opus). They are measured, not computed from the current repo.
Source: benchmarks/ and the README.
Scoreboard
Render plain ASCII bars. The bar length shows the measured range; the label carries the exact figure:
ponytail gain benchmark median · 5 tasks · 3 models
Lines of code no-skill ████████████████████ 100%
ponytail ██▌················· 6–20% ▼ 80–94%
Cost no-skill ████████████████████ 100%
ponytail █████▌·············· 23–53% ▼ 47–77%
Speed ponytail ▸ 3–6× faster
This repo: /ponytail-debt (shortcuts you deferred)
/ponytail-audit (what's still cuttable)
Honesty boundary
These are benchmark medians, not this repo. NEVER print a per-repo savings
number ("you saved X lines/tokens here"): the unbuilt version was never
written, so there is no real baseline to subtract from in a live repo. The
only real per-repo figures come from /ponytail-debt (a counted ledger), and
this card points there instead of inventing one.
Boundaries
One-shot display. Edits nothing, changes no mode. "stop ponytail" or "normal mode": revert.