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Re:Ponytail – make your AI agent think like the laziest seni... by 9NRtKyP4 on Sunday June 14, 2026 @06:58PM (#48533890)
Oh the irony of this giant repo for a prompt. Is this the new leftpad?
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Re:Ponytail – make your AI agent think like the laziest seni... by donatj on Monday June 15, 2026 @04:01AM (#48538006)
My thoughts exactly. The whole thing is essentially just these rules, and a metric ton of boilerplate for specific plugin systems.

My own personal ponytail says this could just be this in a code block of a README

https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail/blob/main/.github...

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Re:Ponytail – make your AI agent think like the laziest seni... by CrompyBlompers on Monday June 15, 2026 @12:32PM (#48543699)
The skills dirs have some necessary content (or so I assume):

https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail/tree/main/skills

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