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AI coding agents share one universal flaw: they write too much code. Ask for a date formatter, get a utility class with config options nobody asked for. ponytail is an agent skill — a plain instruction pack you drop into Claude Code, Codex, Copilot CLI, Cursor, or 20+ other coding agents — built on one idea: the best code is the code you never wrote.

The laziness ladder

Before writing anything, the agent climbs seven questions. Does this need to exist at all? Already in the codebase? In stdlib? A native platform feature? An already-installed dependency? Can it be one line? Only then: the minimum code that works. One rule keeps it honest — never lazy about understanding the problem. The ladder shortens the solution, not the reading.

The numbers behind the hype

Benchmarked on real FastAPI + React repos across 12 tasks: 54% less code on average, up to 94% on over-engineered ones, roughly 20% cheaper on tokens, 27% faster. Solo dev DietrichGebert shipped it June 12. Today it sits at 115.5k GitHub stars, +1,396 in a single day, MIT licensed. Over-engineering is a tax every agent user pays — this deletes it with a markdown file.

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