ponytail-gain
Show ponytail's measured impact as a compact scoreboard: less code, less cost, more speed, from the benchmark medians. One-shot display, not a persistent mode, and not a per-repo number. Trigger: /ponytail-gain, "ponytail gain", "what does ponytail save", "show ponytail impact", "ponytail scoreboard".
npx skills add DietrichGebert/ponytail --skill ponytail-gain --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Ponytail Gain Display this scoreboard when invoked. One-shot: do NOT change mode, write flag files, or persist anything. The figures are the published benchmark medians (5 everyday tasks: email validator, debounce, CSV sum, countdown timer, rate limiter; three models: Haiku, Sonnet, Opus). They are measured, not computed from the current repo. Source: `benchmarks/` and the README. ## Scoreboard Render plain ASCII bars. The bar length shows the measured range; the label carries the exact figure: ``` ponytail gain benchmark median · 5 tasks · 3 models Lines of code no-skill ████████████████████ 100% ponytail ██▌················· 6–20% ▼ 80–94% Cost no-skill ████████████████████ 100% ponytail █████▌·············· 23–53% ▼ 47–77% Speed ponytail ▸ 3–6× faster This repo: /ponytail-debt (shortcuts you deferred) /ponytail-audit (what's still cuttable) ``` ## Honesty boundary These are benchmark medians, not this repo. NEVER print a per-repo savings number ("you saved X lines/tokens here"): the unbuilt version was never written, so there is no real baseline to subtract from in a live repo. The only real per-repo figures come from `/ponytail-debt` (a counted ledger), and this card points t
- Scoreboard
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What does the ponytail-gain skill do?
Show ponytail's measured impact as a compact scoreboard: less code, less cost, more speed, from the benchmark medians. One-shot display, not a persistent mode, and not a per-repo number. Trigger: /ponytail-gain, "ponytail gain", "what does ponytail save", "show ponytail impact", "ponytail scoreboard".
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add DietrichGebert/ponytail --skill ponytail-gain --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From DietrichGebert/ponytail, a repository with 95,650 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.