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Ponytail audit

Skill Emlembow/skills/plugins/ponytail-review-gate/skills/ponytail-audit

Whole-repo audit for over-engineering. Like ponytail-review, but scans the entire codebase instead of a diff: a ranked list of what to delete, simplify, or replace with stdlib/native equivalents. Use when the user says "audit this codebase", "audit for over-engineering", "what can I delete from this repo", "find bloat", "ponytail-audit", or "/ponytail-audit". One-shot report, does not apply fixes.From its SKILL.md

Install
npx -y skills add Emlembow/skills --skill ponytail-audit

Assembled from the repository path, not quoted from the project. Check it against their README if it does not work.

One thing to look at

  • 2 stars2 stars. Stars are a popularity signal and not a quality one, but at this level it is likely that nobody has read this closely except its author, and you would be relying on your own review.

SKILL.md

1.5 KB, 271 tokens by cl100k_base, as published. Nobody here has run it

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

Complexity only, correctness bugs, security holes, and performance go to a normal review pass. Lists findings, applies nothing. One-shot. "stop ponytail-audit" or "normal mode" to revert.

What ships with it

Read from the repository

Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.

Gives 0 of the 12 instructions most audit compliance skills give in 271 tokens

Counted across 960 of the 1,589 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-09-06

  • Read product marketing context before asking questionsin 29 of 960, across 11 files
  • Rank findings by severityin 29 of 960, across 22 files
  • Generate audit reportin 22 of 960
  • Run the audit scriptin 20 of 960, across 19 files
  • Generate a prioritized action plan reportin 19 of 960, across 11 files
  • Ensure one H1 per pagein 15 of 960, across 5 files
  • Ensure sitemap exists and is accessiblein 14 of 960, across 4 files
  • Verify alt text on all imagesin 12 of 960, across 3 files
  • Determine the audit scope before startingin 12 of 960, across 4 files
  • Verify important pages allowed in robots.txtin 11 of 960, across 2 files
  • Detect business type from homepage signalsin 11 of 960, across 7 files
  • Delegate specialized tasks to subagentsin 11 of 960, across 7 files

Grouped from the skills themselves: near-identical wordings counted once, and counted by distinct author, so one author publishing three of these counts once. Length counted with cl100k_base; the agent that loads this file may tokenize it differently.

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