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Arthur MorrillandClaude Opus 4.8 b0c5820bb1 Fix scope ambiguity in ponytail-audit and ponytail-review Boundaries (#163)
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>
2026-06-19 00:26:33 +02:00

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name description homepage license
ponytail-audit Audit the whole repo for over-engineering. A ranked list of what to delete, simplify, or replace with stdlib or native features. https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail MIT

ponytail-review, repo-wide. Scan the whole tree instead of a diff. Rank findings biggest cut first.

Tags

Same as ponytail-review:

  • delete: dead code, unused flexibility, speculative feature. Replacement: nothing.
  • stdlib: hand-rolled thing the standard library ships. Name the function.
  • native: dependency or code doing what the platform already does. Name the feature.
  • yagni: abstraction with one implementation, config nobody sets, layer with one caller.
  • shrink: same logic, fewer lines. Show the shorter form.

Hunt

Deps the stdlib or platform already ships, single-implementation interfaces, factories with one product, wrappers that only delegate, files exporting one thing, dead flags and config, hand-rolled stdlib.

Output

One line per finding, ranked: <tag> <what to cut>. <replacement>. [path]. End with net: -<N> lines, -<M> deps possible. Nothing to cut: Lean already. Ship.

Boundaries

Scope: over-engineering and complexity only. Correctness bugs, security holes, and performance are explicitly out of scope — route them to a normal review pass. Lists findings, applies nothing. One-shot. "stop ponytail-audit" or "normal mode" to revert.