Ultra-compressed communication mode. Cuts token usage ~75% by speaking like caveman while keeping full technical accuracy.
EnglishForces the laziest solution that actually works — simplest, shortest, most minimal. Channels a senior dev who has seen everything: question whether the task needs to exist at all (YAGNI), reach for the standard library before custom code, native platform features before dependencies, one line before fifty. Supports intensity levels: lite, full (default), ultra. Use whenever the user says "ponytail", "be lazy", "lazy mode", "simplest solution", "minimal solution", "yagni", "do less", or "shortest path" — and whenever they complain about over-engineering, bloat, boilerplate, or unnecessary dependencies.
EnglishHarvest every ponytail: comment in the codebase into a debt ledger, so the deliberate shortcuts and deferrals ponytail leaves behind get tracked instead of rotting into "later means never". Use when the user says "ponytail debt", "/ponytail-debt", "what did ponytail defer", "list the shortcuts", "ponytail ledger", or "what did we mark to do later". One-shot report, changes nothing.
EnglishShow ponytail measured impact as a scoreboard: less code, less cost, more speed, from the benchmark medians. One-shot display.
EnglishQuick-reference card for all ponytail modes, skills, and commands. One-shot display, not a persistent mode.
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AGENT SKILLS ATLASIncludes Concise Agent Responses, Simplify Code & Avoid Overengineering, Audit Code for Overengineering, and other workflows.
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Gemini CLISupported by the Atlas install prompt. Skill-specific requirements vary.
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Concise Agent Responses
Ultra-compressed communication mode. Cuts token usage ~75% by speaking like caveman while keeping full technical accuracy. Supports intensity levels: lite, full (default)
Simplify Code & Avoid Overengineering
Forces the laziest solution that actually works — simplest, shortest, most minimal. Channels a senior dev who has seen everything: question whether the task needs to exist at all (YAGNI), reach for the standard library before custom code, native platform features before dependencies, one line before fifty. Supports intensity levels: lite, full (default), ultra. Use whenever the user says "ponytail", "be lazy", "lazy mode", "simplest solution", "minimal solution", "yagni", "do less", or "shortest path" — and whenever they complain about over-engineering, bloat, boilerplate, or unnecessary dependencies.
Audit Code for Overengineering
Whole-repo audit for over-engineering. Like ponytail-review, but scans the entire codebase instead of a diff: a ranked list of what to delete, simplify, or replace with s
Ponytail Debt
Harvest every ponytail: comment in the codebase into a debt ledger, so the deliberate shortcuts and deferrals ponytail leaves behind get tracked instead of rotting into "later means never". Use when the user says "ponytail debt", "/ponytail-debt", "what did ponytail defer", "list the shortcuts", "ponytail ledger", or "what did we mark to do later". One-shot report, changes nothing.
Ponytail Gain
Show ponytail measured impact as a scoreboard: less code, less cost, more speed, from the benchmark medians. One-shot display.
Ponytail Help
Quick-reference card for all ponytail modes, skills, and commands. One-shot display, not a persistent mode. Trigger: /ponytail-help, "ponytail help", "what ponytail comma
Review Code for Overengineering
Code review focused exclusively on over-engineering. Finds what to delete: reinvented standard library, unneeded dependencies, speculative abstractions, dead flexibility
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After installation, start with a request like:
Use the Concise Agent Responses skill to help with my task.
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