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ponytail

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By TanStack/ai (GitHub) · coding · 3,345 stars · scanned at commit 975ec3e

Forces the laziest solution that actually works, simplest, shortest, most minimal. Channels a senior dev who has seen everything: question whether the task needs to exist at all (YAGNI), reach for the standard library before custom code, native platform features before dependencies, one line before fifty. Supports intensity levels: lite, full (default), ultra. Use whenever the user says "ponytail", "be lazy", "lazy mode", "simplest solution", "minimal solution", "yagni", "do less", or "shortest…

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What this skill can do

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Install

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if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'ponytail' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'ponytail' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named ponytail already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/TanStack/ai' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '975ec3ef1e3c24ba8ef2e6421278a6ac5fd55492' -- '.agents/skills/ponytail' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'.agents/skills/ponytail' ~/.agents/skills/'ponytail' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'ponytail' ~/.claude/skills/'ponytail' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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• TanStack/ai/.claude/skills/ponytail
• TanStack/ai/.grok/skills/ponytail