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Ponytail Debt skill

ponytail-debtDietrichGebert/ponytail.openclaw/skills/ponytail-debt/SKILL.md

Harvest every shortcut: comment into one debt ledger, so deferrals get tracked instead of forgotten. One-shot report.

172kMIT

always on

29 tokname + description

once used

379 tokSKILL.md body

bundled files

0

repo stars

172kGitHub

Install the Ponytail Debt skill

Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)

npx skills add https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail --skill ponytail-debt

Claude Code, by hand (all projects)

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail.git /tmp/ponytail
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R /tmp/ponytail/.openclaw/skills/ponytail-debt ~/.claude/skills/ponytail-debt

For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.

What it costs your context

Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.

WhenWhat loadsCost
Every sessionName and description29 tok
When the agent uses itThe SKILL.md instructions379 tok
Only if openedNo bundled files—

Until it is used, ponytail-debt costs about 47× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,362 tokens on every turn). Installing all 12 skills from DietrichGebert/ponytail would load 619 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study

Checks

Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.

Checked 2026-10-22 · method

What's inside

The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.

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