ponytail
PluginPrompt-engineering plugin that encourages minimal code generation by applying YAGNI principles to AI agent behavior.
/plugin marketplace add DietrichGebert/ponytailHe says nothing. He writes one line. It works.
~54% less code (up to 94%) · ~20% cheaper · ~27% faster · 100% safe Measured on real Claude Code sessions editing a real open-source repo (FastAPI + React), against the same agent with no skill. ~54% is the mean across 12 feature tasks (Haiku 4.5, n=4); it reaches 94% where an agent over-builds (a date picker) and is near zero where the code is already minimal. ponytail keeps every safety guard while a bare "write one-liners" prompt drops one. (The earlier single-shot ben…
You know him. Long ponytail. Oval glasses. Has been at the company longer than the version control. You show him fifty lines; he looks at them, says nothing, and replaces them with one.
Ponytail puts him inside your AI agent.
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- MIT
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- 1 months