ponytail-debt
GitHub扫描代码库中带有ponytail:标记的延迟技术债，提取天花板和升级路径。生成统一债务清单，识别无触发器的风险项，仅读取不修改，支持输出为文件。
Trigger Scenarios
Install
npx skills add DietrichGebert/ponytail --skill ponytail-debt -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "ponytail-debt",
"license": "MIT",
"homepage": "https:\/\/github.com\/DietrichGebert\/ponytail",
"description": "Harvest every ponytail: shortcut comment into one debt ledger, so deferrals get tracked instead of forgotten. One-shot report."
}
Every deliberate ponytail shortcut is marked with a ponytail: comment naming
its ceiling and upgrade path. This collects them into one ledger so a deferral
can't quietly become permanent.
Scan
Grep the repo for comment markers, skipping node_modules, .git, and build
output:
grep -rnE '(#|//) ?ponytail:' . (add other comment prefixes if your stack uses them)
Each hit is one ledger row. The comment prefix keeps prose that merely mentions the convention out of the ledger.
Output
One row per marker, grouped by file:
<file>:<line>, <what was simplified>. ceiling: <the limit named>. upgrade: <the trigger to revisit>.
The convention is ponytail: <ceiling>, <upgrade path>, so pull the ceiling
and the trigger straight from the comment. Want an owner per row too? add
git blame -L<line>,<line>.
Flag the rot risk: any ponytail: comment that names no upgrade path or
trigger gets a no-trigger tag, those are the ones that silently rot.
End with <N> markers, <M> with no trigger. Nothing found: No ponytail: debt. Clean ledger.
Boundaries
Reads and reports only, changes nothing. To persist it, ask and it writes the
ledger to a file (e.g. PONYTAIL-DEBT.md). One-shot. "stop ponytail-debt" or
"normal mode" to revert.
Version History
- 40e50d9 Current 2026-07-05 15:19
