DietrichGebert/ponytail

Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

JavaScript177.1k9.7k forks62 open issuesMITlast push 18 Oct 2026View on GitHub

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DietrichGebert/ponytail has 177.1k stars and gained +10.1k of them in the last 7 days, a 6.1% change. It is written in JavaScript, grouped under ai-dev-tools, ai-agents, released under MIT. A merged pull request waits a median of 1.8 days from opening to merge, measured on 149 pull requests. Last pushed on 18 Oct 2026.

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DietrichGebert/ponytail

Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

JavaScript177.1k9.7k forks62 open issuesMITlast push 18 Oct 2026View on GitHub

Star count as of 06:56 (BKK).

ai-dev-tools ai-agents agent-skills ai-agents claude claude-code claude-code-plugin cursor-rules developer-tools llm prompt-engineering yagni

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Last 7 days	+10.1k	6.1%	167k on 18 Oct 2026	Weekly history
Last 30 days	+31.1k	21.3%	146k on 27 Sep 2026	Weekly history
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Stars on 26 Oct 2026: #39top 1% of 61,796 measured that day
JavaScript: #8top 1% of 6,761
Age: <1 yrolder than 18% of the corpus
Watchers / stars: 0.2%median at this size 1.7%
Pull requests: 79busier than 95% of the corpus

139 commits in 28 days · release 10 days ago · #3 on 24h trending

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Stars: 148.3k when it entered our index, 177.1k on the last capture we hold (26 Oct 2026), so +28.8k in that span. That span is our own measurement window, not a claim about what happened before it.

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Neckbeard – A DevOps/platform/SRE plugin for your agentHNcomment · by cousinbryce · 1 week ago
Can this be used with the ponytail skill? https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail/tree/main
10 OpenCode skills that make AI coding agents dramatically more usefulRedditstory · by /u/ZookeepergameMost817 · 3 weeks ago
10 OpenCode skills that make AI coding agents dramatically more useful Most people use coding agents like autocomplete with a terminal. But the real jump happens when you give the agent skills : reusable instruction packages, workflows, tools, checks, and domain knowledge that tell it how to approach recurring work—not just what code to write. These projects work with OpenCode or are compatible w…
4 Claude Code tools I’d install before my next big coding sessionRedditstory · by /u/ZookeepergameMost817 · 4 weeks ago
Vanilla Claude Code wastes tokens, re-reads your repo, and can hit model limits fast. The stack: Ponytail — pushes Claude to write the least code that works instead of bloated, unnecessary output https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail OmniRoute — routes Claude Code through multiple providers, including changing free tiers and fallback models https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute Graphify…
Token Usage and LimitsRedditstory · by /u/ueiebe · 14 Sep 2026
I'm new here as a commenter; I usually read other users' posts, but right now there's an issue that concerns and worries most of us who work with Claude on a daily basis. It’s about token usage and limits. There are different ways to optimize and reduce them, such as /compact, /clear, etc. Also, the main factors determining how tokens are used are the chosen model and effort level, as well as the…
Token Usage and LimitaRedditstory · by /u/ueiebe · 14 Sep 2026
I'm new here as a commenter; I usually read other users' posts, but right now there's an issue that concerns and worries most of us who work with Claude on a daily basis. It’s about token usage and limits. There are different ways to optimize and reduce them, such as /compact, /clear, etc. Also, the main factors determining how tokens are used are the chosen model and effort level, as well as the…

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