Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.
Are you the author of Ponytail Audit?
Add the live security badge to your README. It updates with every re-scan.
[](https://www.skillsdirectory.com/skills/netvar1337-ponytail-audit)
---
name: ponytail-audit
description: "Use for whole-repo over-engineering audit ('audit for over-engineering', /ponytail-audit). Report only."
version: 1.0.0
license: MIT
metadata:
package: unleash-skills
author: NetVar1337/unleash
category: coding
upstream: https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail
---
> Bundled with Unleash skills pack. Upstream: https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail
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
Scope: over-engineering and complexity only. Correctness bugs, security holes,
and performance are explicitly out of scope. Route them to a normal review
pass. Lists findings, applies nothing. One-shot.
"stop ponytail-audit" or "normal mode" to revert.
