* feat: add Grok Build adapter (revive #561 on current main)
Thin Grok packaging under .grok-plugin/ with root plugin.json path
overrides (hooks + MCP). SessionStart/UserPromptSubmit/SubagentStart
reuse shared hooks/ponytail-*.js; mode state under GROK_PLUGIN_DATA.
Rebases the approach from #561 onto current main: keep Qoder detection
and output paths, add isGrok, export getGrokPluginDataDir, drop bash-only
exec from Grok hooks, and document install/enable/uninstall on the
front-page README (en/es/ko) plus agent-portability.
Direct install works today:
grok plugin install DietrichGebert/ponytail --trust
Marketplace root source ("./") matches Claude; Grok's scanner still
rejects it (see xai-org/plugin-marketplace#123 class of bugs).
Co-authored-by: Vinícius Souza <souza.vinicius@bb.com.br>
* fix(grok): drop MCP, harden host detection and tests
Review feedback on #661:
- Remove MCP wiring (git install never installs ponytail-mcp deps; no
other host ships MCP; hooks+skills cover always-on)
- Drop static plugin-index.json (optional catalog fluff)
- Clear GROK_PLUGIN_* in hooks.test.js so host suites cannot leak
- Exclusive isGrok after Copilot/Codex; state falls back to ROOT not ~/.claude
- Tighten Qoder regression assert; structural checks for plugin.json/hooks
- List Grok Build among skill-capable hosts in README
* refactor(grok): DRY — reuse Claude/Codex hooks map
Second review pass for #661:
- Delete .grok-plugin/hooks.json (near-copy of claude-codex-hooks.json).
Root plugin.json points at the shared map; Grok sets CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT.
- Drop getGrokPluginDataDir; inline GROK_PLUGIN_DATA || ROOT like other hosts.
- Grok uses Claude-compatible writeHookOutput (raw SessionStart, JSON
SubagentStart) instead of a separate raw-only branch.
- Slim .grok-plugin/marketplace.json to match .claude-plugin.
- Tests: shared-map assert, SubagentStart JSON under Grok, Qoder isolation.
* fix(grok): use native skill activation
* chore: drop unrelated Qoder formatting
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Most-asked question, and the answer was only ever in the skill file
(skills/ponytail/SKILL.md: "pair with Caveman for terse prose"), never
in the README. Added to both READMEs as the first FAQ entry.
Co-authored-by: Dietrich Gebert <dgebert@Dietrichs-MacBook-Pro.local>
* feat(hooks): opt-in agent-type scoping for SubagentStart injection (#506)
The SubagentStart hook injected the ~1,300-token persona into every
subagent, including read-only search agents where it is dead weight.
Consumers could not narrow a plugin-provided hook from their own
settings, so the scoping has to live here.
Add an opt-in allowlist: PONYTAIL_SUBAGENT_AGENTS (comma-separated env
var) or a subagentAgents array in config.json, matching getDefaultMode
precedence. The hook now reads agent_type from stdin and skips
injection only on a positive mismatch; unconfigured or missing
agent_type keeps the inject-everywhere behavior from issue #252. Stdin
reading follows the never-hang contract from issue #443.
Closes#506
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Address review: regex matcher, stdin-free default path, exit on skip
Rework the SubagentStart scoping per review on #522:
- Replace the comma-separated PONYTAIL_SUBAGENT_AGENTS allowlist with a
regex PONYTAIL_SUBAGENT_MATCHER, matching the reviewed API on #507 and
the PONYTAIL_DEFAULT_MODE naming convention.
- Default path (no matcher) injects synchronously and never reads stdin,
fixing the #443-class Windows regression where the persona was delayed
until a 1s timeout.
- On a definite agent_type mismatch the hook now process.exit(0)s
immediately instead of lingering until the fallback timer.
- Drop the config-file (subagentAgents) source, so no config read on the
subagent hot path; env-only keeps it lazy (YAGNI).
- Revert the unrelated tests/hooks-windows.test.js change; the scoped
path mirrors the mode-tracker never-hang contract already tested there.
Fail open on unparseable input, missing agent_type, invalid regex, or
timeout so scoping never silently drops the persona (#252).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Emeriko <dietrich.gebert@gmail.com>
* docs: add JetBrains Junie support (native AGENTS.md reader)
Junie reads AGENTS.md from the project root natively (per JetBrains' official docs), so ponytail works zero-config in any JetBrains IDE — like CodeWhale (#124). Adds a README note + agent-portability row, and bumps the agent badge 16 -> 17. Docs-only.
* docs: also add Amp and Jules support (native AGENTS.md readers)
Amp (Sourcegraph) reads AGENTS.md as its primary guidance file (cwd + parents up to $HOME + global config; per ampcode.com/manual). Jules (Google) auto-reads AGENTS.md from the repo root (per jules.google/docs). Both work zero-config via the AGENTS.md this repo ships. Badge 17->19. Roo Code evaluated and excluded (archived 2026-05-15).
* Merge main; correct Junie AGENTS.md note (Guidelines Path, not automatic)
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Co-authored-by: Emeriko <dietrich.gebert@gmail.com>
The desktop-app note pointed at a Customize > + > "Create plugin and
add marketplace" > "Add from repository" flow (from #98) that no
longer matches the app. The unified Claude Code Desktop app's Code
tab runs real Claude Code sessions, so the same /plugin marketplace
add and /plugin install commands typed above work directly in its
prompt box; the + button also opens a Plugins browser, and
marketplaces are managed under Customize in the sidebar (per
Anthropic's current desktop app docs).
Closes#342
"GitHub Copilot (editor)" was buried in a comma-separated adapter
list with no indication of which product it meant, so readers asking
"does this support VS Code Copilot?" had no way to tell from the
README. Spell out VS Code/JetBrains/Visual Studio explicitly and
disambiguate from the separately documented Copilot CLI.
Closes#497
Adds `.devin-plugin/plugin.json` so the plugin can be installed with
`devin plugins install DietrichGebert/ponytail`. The skills/ directory
is already at the repo root, which is exactly where Devin expects it.
Registers the new manifest in `scripts/check-versions.js` so it stays
in sync with every other host manifest on release.
Updates README: install/uninstall instructions, badge (14 → 15 agents),
and Devin added to the skill-capable hosts list in Commands.
Generated with [Devin](https://devin.ai)
Co-authored-by: Devin <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Replace the flat orange badge with a clickable terminal-style banner
image: the "he's building" sticker, a bold headline, and an orange
JOIN THE WAITLIST call to action. Localized banners for EN/ES/KO.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The blue NOTE callout was too quiet. Replace it with a centered bold
line plus a bright orange "join the waitlist" badge (matches the site),
and add the same banner to the Spanish and Korean READMEs.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Promotes the pre-launch waitlist at ponytail.dev/soon with a NOTE
callout just under the header.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Appends a star-history.com chart (light/dark via <picture>) to the end of
the English, Spanish, and Korean READMEs. Heading follows each file's
convention: translated in Spanish ("Historial de estrellas"), English
elsewhere.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the daily and weekly Trendshift badges to the header badge area of
the English, Spanish, and Korean READMEs. Alt text decoded from %2F to a
plain slash for screen readers.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: add Korean README translation
Add README.ko.md following the README.es.md convention (community
translation note, English as canonical) and link it from README.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs(ko): sync translation with current README
Bring README.ko.md up to current English: npm install for OpenCode
(@dietrichgebert/ponytail) + npm badge, drop the obsolete ln -sf command-symlink
note (the plugin self-registers commands since #197), add the Swival section and
the Codex two-prompt install note.
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Co-authored-by: Emeriko <dietrich.gebert@gmail.com>
The plugin registers the /ponytail commands itself now (#197), so the manual
ln -sf workaround is obsolete. Add the npm install snippet + version badge,
and bring README.es.md's OpenCode section up to parity with the English one.
Publish under a scope you own outright instead of opencode-ponytail (which
sits on a third-party npm account). Matches the GitHub handle and repo.
publishConfig.access is already public, which scoped public packages need.
* feat: register slash commands from .opencode/command/*.md
Add parseCommandFile() to read frontmatter-described markdown files
and wire them into opencode's config.command during init.
Extend the config hook to scan .opencode/command/ and register each
.md file as a named slash command.
Update the plugin doc comment to reflect the npm install path
(opencode-ponytail) vs the old relative path.
* chore: rename package to opencode-ponytail
Align package name with npm convention for opencode plugins.
Update keywords to include opencode-plugin and opencode tags.
Fix description back to original correct wording (grammatical
regression introduced during editing).
* chore: add npm metadata and publish workflow
Add author, homepage, repository, bugs, main, exports, files, and
publishConfig fields to package.json for npm publishing.
Add .github/workflows/publish.yml to auto-publish to npm on version
tags (v*) with provenance.
* docs: add npm plugin install for opencode-ponytail
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Co-authored-by: Emeriko <dietrich.gebert@gmail.com>
Follow-up to #228 (issue #226):
- README: state that scripts/uninstall.js must run *before* the host
remove command, since the script is itself a plugin file and gets
deleted by the removal (or run it from a separate clone).
- uninstall.js: add a ponytail: comment naming the statusLine match
ceiling — substring match + whole-key delete removes a combined
(e.g. caveman+ponytail) statusline wholesale; upgrade path noted.
- Add trailing newline to the file.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ClawHub does not sync from GitHub. Each OpenClaw skill is pushed with the
clawhub CLI at its own version, so the published copies can drift from the
repo the same way the plugin manifests did (#260). This adds a one-pass
publisher that pushes every generated .openclaw/skills/ skill at the
package.json version, with --dry-run to preview, and documents it in the
README next to the build step.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#245 "Dangerously lazy": add an operational "fix the root cause, not the
symptom" directive — grep every caller of the function you touch and fix the
shared function once (the smaller diff). Validated on the agentic benchmark: on
a shared-helper bug-fix trap, baseline fixes the root cause 1/6 while ponytail
does 6/6 on both Sonnet 4.6 (the model the issue was filed on) and Opus 4.8,
verified by reading the produced code. Plain prose ("trace the flow") did not
move it; the actionable, lazy-framed directive did.
#217 "Missing rung": add ladder rung 2 "Already in this codebase? Reuse it,
don't re-write it." Propagated across SKILL.md, AGENTS.md, all agent mirror
copies, the hook fallback, and both READMEs (check-rule-copies passes).
Benchmark: 4 new deterministic quality-tier tasks (reuse-slug, reuse-money,
trace-transfer, trace-amount) with selftest-proven good/bad refs; harness gains
multi-file seed support in --selftest, distinctive-behaviour reuse detection,
and counts in-file __main__/demo() self-checks as test LOC (not source bloat)
for surgical tasks. Full writeup in
benchmarks/results/2026-06-22-issue-245-217-comprehension.md.
Also carries the in-progress todo-null benchmark task already present in the
working tree.
Co-authored-by: Dietrich Gebert <dgebert@Dietrichs-MacBook-Pro.local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Em dashes crept back into examples, docs/platform-native.md, several READMEs,
the ponytail-debt skill, and a command file since 88431de. Replaced with plain
punctuation (commas, matching the house convention), .openclaw mirror
regenerated. Follows 88431de's scope: leaves untouched the vendored caveman
SKILL.md and the dated benchmarks/results/ writeups (historical records).
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#82 added a "Web tasks: rung 3 lookup" section to the always-on ponytail
SKILL.md, about an external `modern-web` CLI most users won't have installed.
It's optional bloat in the always-on ruleset, and it broke CI by leaving the
.openclaw mirror stale.
Reverts the section from skills/ponytail/SKILL.md, the README callout, and
examples/web-platform-lookup.md, then regenerates the .openclaw mirror and
removes the Spanish callout that #174 had mirrored. Suite green (56/56).
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Spanish README merged (#110) carrying stale content: the old flat
"80-94% menos código" single-shot headline (the exact claim #126 corrected),
no CodeWhale section, badge stuck at 13 agents, and missing the Modern Web
Guidance callout (#82) and the Claude Code desktop-install paragraph.
Re-translates the hero + Números section to the corrected agentic numbers
(~54%, up to 94%, 100% safe) with the old figures demoted to the same
<details> block English uses, adds CodeWhale, fixes the badge, and adds a
"community translation, English is the reference" note. Also adds a minimal
Español discoverability link to the English README so readers can find it.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Scoped, optional reference to Modern Web Guidance so the agent can look
up native platform features on web work, filling the gap at rung 3 of
the ladder. Three additive changes, no compact-ruleset surgery:
- skills/ponytail/SKILL.md: "Web tasks: rung 3 lookup" section after the
ladder. Runtime source only, not byte-compared, so no six-file sync.
- README.md: one "Pairs well with" line, matching the Caveman pattern.
- examples/web-platform-lookup.md: a <dialog closedby> vs Radix
before/after in the date-picker.md style.
Lookup, not license: MWG suggests, the ladder filters. Absent CLI
changes nothing. No new INVARIANT phrase; rule-copy check stays green.
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
A one-shot scoreboard showing ponytail's measured benchmark impact
(less code, less cost, more speed) as plain ASCII bars, then points to
/ponytail-debt and /ponytail-audit for this repo's real numbers.
Complements the existing skills rather than duplicating them: debt
harvests the ponytail: ledger, audit finds what's cuttable, gain shows
the measured why-it-matters. No per-repo savings number is ever printed
-- the unbuilt version was never written, so there is no real baseline
to subtract from in a live repo. The bars carry the published benchmark
medians (5 tasks, 3 models); per-repo figures come from debt's count.
Ships every adapter the other commands ship: Claude commands/*.toml,
OpenCode .opencode/command/*.md, OpenClaw skill (generated), Pi command
registration. Help card, command enumeration, portability table, and
README updated in the same change.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
CodeWhale reads AGENTS.md from project root per its CONFIGURATION.md —
ponytail already works with no adapter file needed. Added dedicated install
section, agent count bump (13→14), and portability table row.
Also adds Zed to the grouped instruction-only adapter list (same
mechanism: reads AGENTS.md natively).
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Documents the desktop-app install flow (no /plugin command) and the global command-dir linking needed for /ponytail commands in OpenCode outside a checkout. Covers the recurring questions in #97 and #98.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The hero showed only ~54% (the mean); the rigorous agentic run also reaches 94%
on the over-build tasks (the date picker), so the headline now reads
"~54% (up to 94%)". The sub-line is reworded so 80-94% reads as the per-task
ceiling against a fair baseline, not the old single-shot figure, which would
otherwise contradict the hero.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Grouped bars of LOC, tokens, cost and time as a % of the no-skill baseline
(lower is leaner/cheaper/faster), plus a separate safety strip (baseline,
caveman and ponytail 100%; yagni-oneliner 95%). System-gray palette so it reads
on both GitHub themes. The chart commits landed after #158 had already
squash-merged, so this brings the chart onto main.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rebuild the benchmark to the standard #126 asked for: real headless Claude Code
sessions (not a bare model) editing a real public repo
(tiangolo/full-stack-fastapi-template @ cd83fc1, MIT), fair arms (baseline,
caveman, ponytail, and the "YAGNI + one-liners" prompt), n=4, Haiku 4.5. LOC is
the git diff; the safety tasks execute the produced code against adversarial
input.
Results: ponytail -54% LOC mean (up to -94% on over-build features like the
date/color picker), -22% tokens, -20% cost, -27% time, and never more than
baseline; 100% safe vs the one-liner prompt's 95% (it dropped a path-traversal
guard once). caveman writes less code but spends more tokens.
Also fixes a baseline-contamination bug (the ponytail plugin's SessionStart hook
fired on every arm; now isolated with --setting-sources project,local + per-arm
--plugin-dir) and a Windows subprocess-timeout hang.
Lead both READMEs with the agentic numbers; demote the single-shot 80-94% to a
labelled "isolated generation" note; supersede the contaminated 2026-06-17
writeup. Dead react-app fixture left untracked.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: correct cost claim to 42-75% from 30-rep re-verification
Re-ran the cost benchmark at 30 reps per cell on Claude (Haiku/Sonnet/Opus):
ponytail is 42-75% cheaper than no-skill, not the previously published 47-77%.
The direction holds, both ends came in a few points lower. Updates the README
headline and body, the benchmark chart subtitle, and the benchmarks/README cost
table, and adds a dated results doc with full method.
Also adds the OpenAI (gpt-4.1-mini/gpt-5.4-mini/gpt-5.5) and Gemini configs. On
OpenAI reasoning models ponytail costs more, not less, so the claim stays
Claude-scoped. Gemini run pending a fresh-quota day.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: scope the body claim to Claude models
"on every model" read as cross-provider, but the 30-rep verification shows
the cost win reverses on OpenAI reasoning models. Match the caption and
benchmarks/README, which already say Claude.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: reframe the pitch as the discipline, not token savings
The cost/code/latency numbers vary by model and on some (terse reasoning
models like GPT-5.5) ponytail costs more, so leading with them as a universal
win was misleading. Adds model-variance to the headline caption and a paragraph
making the stated point the mental model: write only what the task needs,
safety kept, maintainable code. Savings are a model-dependent side effect.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: name the ladder's reasoning cost
The ladder is a deliberation step: on reasoning models the agent spends
thinking tokens working through the rungs before it saves any output, which
together with the always-on ruleset can outweigh the shorter code. Makes the
GPT-5.5 cost increase legible rather than just stating it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: state the single-shot limitation honestly
The benchmark is single-shot (one prompt, one completion); it does not measure
a real multi-turn agent session, where the ruleset re-injects and the ladder
deliberates every turn. Adds that caveat to the README, and corrects the
benchmarks/README note that claimed caching widens the gap "in ponytail's
favor" (unverified, and a measured agentic A/B in #121 found the opposite can
happen). Per-session cost can land either way.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: fix run count in caption (cost is 30 runs, not 10)
Cost was re-verified at 30 reps; code and latency are still the original 10.
The headline caption said "10 runs" across the board, which undersold the cost
verification. Now states the split, matching benchmarks/README.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Adds a caveat under the headline numbers: they are per-task code/latency/cost on the Claude API, not a plan quota promise. Prevents the misread in #111.
Adds .openclaw/skills/ (ponytail + review/audit/debt/help) generated from the canonical skills/ (verbatim body, no drift), a generator script, and a drift test. Verified live: loads as Ready in OpenClaw 2026.6.6.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Documents the Antigravity CLI install, the global default-level config, and the OpenCode absolute-path option. Addresses #58, #64, #71.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude Code runs hooks via a non-interactive /bin/sh. On setups where node
isn't on that shell's PATH (Nix/nix-darwin, nvm, fnm), every prompt errored
with "/bin/sh: node: command not found". Guard each hook command so it runs
node only when present and exits 0 otherwise, no more per-prompt noise. The
slash-command skills are unaffected; only the always-on activation needs node.
Document the requirement in the README install section.
Closes#51.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The benchmark harness hardcoded `python`, which is missing on macOS and
many Linux images. Probe python3 first, add npm test, and run checks in
GitHub Actions so regressions are caught on every PR.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
The badge had fallen behind: it stayed at 11 when Antigravity and the VS Code
Codex extension were added, and Copilot CLI is now a full plugin host too. 13
distinct agent rows in docs/agent-portability.md (excluding the generic
fallback).
Peter
DietrichGebert
Anders Brams
krish rathi
shixiaoding
Hamza Ali Shahjahan
Yash Yadav
topher
Usul-Dev
Dang Trung An
Frank Denis
Matthias Linhuber
Isha katiyar
salaamdev
Liad Yosef
Sonai Biswas
Ben Younes
Lakshya77089
Abdisalam Hassan
Christopher Mayfield