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Ponytail Publishes Measured Deltas for a Restraint Skill: 54% Less Code Written, 20% Cheaper, 27% Faster, Safety Guards Untouched
0xwilliamortiz/ponytail-improved (created 2026-07-28, 476 stars, 68 forks, MIT) reached 476 stars in one day for a skill that makes coding agents write less rather than more, framed as the laziest senior dev in the room. The README publishes measured numbers from real Claude Code sessions on a real repo: roughly 54% less code written and up to 94% where the agent over-builds, roughly 20% cheaper, roughly 27% faster, with 100% of safety guards retained, linked to a full writeup at benchmarks/results/2026-06-18-agentic.md. It installs as two small Node lifecycle hooks across Claude Code, Codex, Copilot CLI, OpenCode, Pi, Antigravity, Hermes and OpenClaw.
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