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DietrichGebert/ponytail

ponytail-gain

Show ponytail measured impact as a scoreboard: less code, less cost, more speed, from the benchmark medians. One-shot display.

16K installs 122K starsUpdated Aug 8, 2026License: MIT

Install

npx skills add DietrichGebert/ponytail@ponytail-gain

Runs in your terminal. Adds the skill globally for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and others; add -g -y to skip prompts.

What it does

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: Honesty boundary These are benchmark medians, not this repo. NEVER print a per-repo savings number ("you…

Excerpt from the skill's own SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub before installing: skills run with your agent's permissions.

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Before you install

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