Ponytail Review — Development skill for Claude Code
Review changes for over-engineering, what can be deleted.
How to install Ponytail Review
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/cyvid7-darus10-claude-code-config-ponytail-review/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/cyvid7-darus10-claude-code-config-ponytail-review && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Cyvid7-Darus10/claude-code-config/HEAD/commands/ponytail-review.md -o ~/.claude/skills/cyvid7-darus10-claude-code-config-ponytail-review/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Ponytail Review does
description: Review changes for over-engineering, what can be deleted
Review the current code changes for over-engineering only, not correctness. One line per finding: L: . . Tags: delete (dead code/speculative feature), stdlib (reinvented standard library), native (dependency doing what the platform does), yagni (abstraction with one implementation), shrink (same logic, fewer lines). End with the net lines removable. If nothing to cut: 'Lean alread
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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