Ponytail audit
Production-ready AI agent profiles for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. Search, install, and contribute ForgeCat packages.
npx -y skills add nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles --skill ponytail-auditAssembled from the repository path, not quoted from the project. Check it against their README if it does not work.
One thing to look at
- 24 stars24 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.
What its author says it does
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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.
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 937 of the 1,487 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-08-07
- Fetch latest guidelines before each reviewin 43 of 937, across 3 files
- Group findings by severityin 43 of 937
- Check files against all fetched rulesin 42 of 937, across 2 files
- Output findings in terse file:line formatin 41 of 937, across 3 files
- Ask user which files to review if none specifiedin 41 of 937, across 3 files
- Read specified files or prompt user for filesin 39 of 937, across 1 file
- Generate the audit reportin 33 of 937, across 30 files
- Assign a severity to every findingin 25 of 937
- Run automated accessibility scansin 23 of 937, across 13 files
- Output a markdown audit reportin 22 of 937
- Map findings to WCAG criteriain 20 of 937, across 10 files
- Confirm audit scopein 19 of 937, across 9 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.