ponytail-review
Quality review of a diff: bugs, security, real load, missing tests, speed, and what to delete. Each finding says what goes wrong and how to fix it.
Before you install
- Last update
- Files in folder
- 1
- Scripts
- No script files found
- SKILL.md size
- 4.9 KB (about 1,244 tokens of context each time it loads)
- License
- MIT
- Source on GitHub
- DietrichGebert/ponytail
Skills are plain text instructions the agent follows, sometimes with scripts. Check the source, prefer repositories with many installs and stars, and read any script it ships.
Install
npx skills add DietrichGebert/ponytail@ponytail-reviewRuns in a terminal with Node.js 18 or newer. Add -y to skip the prompts and -g to install for every project instead of this one.
Install for your agent
npx skills add DietrichGebert/ponytail@ponytail-review --agent claude-code -y- Project install writes to
.claude/skills/ponytail-review- Global install writes to
~/.claude/skills/ponytail-review
Start a new session afterwards so the agent picks the skill up. In Claude Code you can also call it directly with /ponytail-review.
What it does
Review a change like the senior developer who will be paged when it breaks. Order of importance: correct, safe, holds under load, tested, fast, lean. Lean still matters: every extra line must be read, tested and fixed later. This is a report the user asked for, so give it in full. 1. Understand first - Review what the user names: uncommitted or staged changes, a branch, a PR link, or files. Nothing named: the uncommitted changes, or the last commit if there are none. - Read the diff, then the code it touches: callers of every changed function, the functions it calls, the tests, the README. -…
Excerpt from the skill's own SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub before installing: skills run with your agent's permissions.
Categories
Related skills
- ponytail
DietrichGebert/ponytail
Lazy senior dev mode for any coding task: the smallest change that fully solves it, and a reply a busy human understands in one read.
- ponytail
DietrichGebert/ponytail
Lazy senior dev mode: the smallest change that fully solves the task, and a reply a busy human understands in one read. Use on any coding task (writing, fixing, refactoring, reviewing, choosing dependencies) and when the user says "ponytail", "be lazy", "simplest solution", "yagni", or complains about over-engineering or bloat. Levels: lite, full (default), ultra.
- ponytail-review
DietrichGebert/ponytail
Quality review of a change: is the logic right, is it safe, does it hold under real load, is risky code tested, is it fast enough, and is every line needed. Reads the connected code, not only the diff. Each finding is explained in plain English. Use for "review this", "code review", "review the last commit", "review my PR", "is this over-engineered", /ponytail-review.
- ponytail-audit
DietrichGebert/ponytail
Quality audit of the whole repo: bugs, security, real load, missing tests, speed, and what to delete. Most important first.
- ponytail-audit
DietrichGebert/ponytail
Quality audit of a whole repo: bugs, security holes, what breaks under real load, risky code without tests, slow paths, and what to delete, merge or split. Ranked, each finding explained in plain English. One-shot report, changes nothing. Use for "audit this codebase", "review the whole repo", "find bloat", "what can I delete", /ponytail-audit.
- ponytail-help
DietrichGebert/ponytail
Quick reference for ponytail's modes, skills, and commands. One-shot display.
37K installs 166K