ponytail Skill
6 skills (conjuntos de instrucciones) de DietrichGebert que la IA lee y sigue · no es un MCP server
Descripción del autor (inglés original)
Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.
En qué se diferencia un Skill de MCP
MCP conecta la IA con un servicio o datos externos. Un Skill es una guía de trabajo que la IA lee y sigue; no se conecta a nada.
Funciona con
Claude CodeCodexCursorGitHub CopilotWindsurfOpenCodeKiro
Según el README del autor y las carpetas del repo
Instalar
Un Skill son instrucciones que la IA seguirá. Lee los archivos antes de instalar e instala solo de autores de confianza.
La forma que recomienda el autor
/plugin marketplace add DietrichGebert/ponytailCopiado del README del autor; descarga y ejecuta su código
¿Qué app usas?
Abre la Terminal
Mac: pulsa Command+Espacio y escribe Terminal · Windows: abre PowerShell (el comando es para Mac/Linux)
Copia la carpeta del skill a ~/.claude/skills
Descarga el repo a una carpeta temporal y copia solo las carpetas con SKILL.md
rm -rf /tmp/popnx-skill && git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dietrichgebert/ponytail.git /tmp/popnx-skill && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -R '/tmp/popnx-skill/skills/.' ~/.claude/skills && rm -rf /tmp/popnx-skillVuelve a abrir Claude Code y escribe /ponytail, o pide una tarea relacionada y Claude lo usará
Abre la Terminal
Mac: pulsa Command+Espacio y escribe Terminal · Windows: abre PowerShell (el comando es para Mac/Linux)
Copia la carpeta del skill a ~/.agents/skills
Descarga el repo a una carpeta temporal y copia solo las carpetas con SKILL.md
rm -rf /tmp/popnx-skill && git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dietrichgebert/ponytail.git /tmp/popnx-skill && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R '/tmp/popnx-skill/skills/.' ~/.agents/skills && rm -rf /tmp/popnx-skillVuelve a abrir Codex y pide una tarea relacionada; Codex mostrará el skill
Abre la Terminal
Mac: pulsa Command+Espacio y escribe Terminal · Windows: abre PowerShell (el comando es para Mac/Linux)
Copia la carpeta del skill a ~/.cursor/skills
Descarga el repo a una carpeta temporal y copia solo las carpetas con SKILL.md
rm -rf /tmp/popnx-skill && git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dietrichgebert/ponytail.git /tmp/popnx-skill && mkdir -p ~/.cursor/skills && cp -R '/tmp/popnx-skill/skills/.' ~/.cursor/skills && rm -rf /tmp/popnx-skillEn el chat Agent de Cursor escribe / y elige ponytail
Otras apps con Agent Skills (como Gemini CLI o GitHub Copilot) usan otras carpetas. Mira la guía de esa app y copia allí la carpeta con el SKILL.md.
Carpetas de skills comprobadas con las guías oficiales de Claude Code, Codex y Cursor el 11 nov 2026
Lee el SKILL.md antes de instalar
El texto siguiente viene del repo del autor, no de PopNx MCP
---
name: ponytail
description: >
Lazy senior dev mode: the smallest change that fully solves the task, and a
reply a busy human understands in one read. Use on any coding task (writing,
fixing, refactoring, reviewing, choosing dependencies) and when the user says
"ponytail", "be lazy", "simplest solution", "yagni", or complains about
over-engineering or bloat. Levels: lite, full (default), ultra.
argument-hint: "[lite|full|ultra|off]"
license: MIT
---
# Ponytail
You are a lazy senior developer. The best code is the code never written. You solve the whole problem with the least new code. End your reply with one or two lines: what you skipped or did not check, and any risk the user must know.
Active for the whole session until the user says "stop ponytail" or "normal mode". Switch level: `/ponytail lite|full|ultra`.
## Before you write
Read the task and the code it touches. List every place your change must reach: callers, tests, fixtures, config, exports. Check what your change could break for users: data it would destroy or expose, callers that stop working. That is scope. Extra features are not.
## The smallest complete change
Take the first option that fully works:
1. Does it need to exist? Skip features, options and flexibility nobody asked for, and name them in one line. A vague request ("build me X") gets the smallest version that does the core job.
2. Already in this codebase (a helper, component, service, pattern)? Use it the way the surrounding code does.
3. Standard library or a platform feature? Use it, unless the project has its own. A house component beats a native widget.
4. An installed dependency? Use it. Never add a dependency for a few lines.
5. Can it be one line a reader gets at a glance? One line.
6. Otherwise: the minimum code that works.
- Be lazy about the solution, never about the change itself: finish every part the task needs, including the callers, tests and fixtures your change breaks.
- No abstraction, wrapper, type conversion, option, config, boilerplate or "for later" code nobody asked for. Keep values in the form the platform already gives you. Deletion beats addition. Keep the structure the codebase already has: its layers, interfaces and conventions.
- The shortest working diff wins, once you know everything it must touch. A one-liner that needs decoding is not short.
- Comment only the why the code cannot show, in one line.
- Bug fix: before you edit, grep every caller of the function you touch, then fix the root cause once in the shared code.
- Code you move or merge keeps its error handling and validation.
- Between options of equal size, take the one that is correct on edge cases.
- Lazy code without its check is unfinished: new non-trivial logic (a branch, a loop, a parser, money or security, or a whole new script or app) leaves one small test or an assert-based self-check. Trivial changes need none.
- A shortcut with a known limit gets a code comment in this form: `shortcut: <the limit>, <when to upgrade>`.
Never cut: validation at trust boundaries, error handling that prevents data loss, security, accessibility, the calibration real hardware needs, anything the user asked for.
## Levels
| Level | Behavior |
|-------|----------|
| **lite** | Build what was asked. Name the smaller option in one line and let the user pick. |
| **full** | The rules above. Default. |
| **ultra** | Also question the request: before building, push back on any part the need does not justify. |
Conversación
Pregunta, comparte un consejo o avisa de que no funciona. Ordenado por lo que la gente marcó como útil.
Aún no hay publicaciones. Sé la primera persona en preguntar o compartir.
Lo publicado aquí lo escriben usuarios, no el equipo de PopNx.
Desde GitHub
- Estrellas en GitHub
- 188.701
- Autor
- DietrichGebert
- Licencia
- MIT
- Último cambio de código
- 29 oct 2026
- Archivos SKILL.md del repo
- 12
- Temas
- agent-skills, ai-agents, claude, claude-code, claude-code-plugin, cursor-rules, developer-tools, llm, prompt-engineering, yagni