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ponytail-gain

From DietrichGebert

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Prints a fixed ASCII scoreboard of published benchmark medians for lines of code, cost, and speed.

Use it when

  • Want to see ponytail's benchmark numbers without running anything
  • Explaining ponytail's measured impact to someone else
  • Need a quick one-shot display, not ongoing tracking

Skip it if

  • Want per-repo savings numbers; this only shows benchmark medians, not this repo's data
  • Need persistent mode or logging; it edits nothing and reverts to normal after display
  • Already have /ponytail-debt or /ponytail-audit for real per-repo figures

Facts

Repository
DietrichGebert/ponytail
Status
Actively maintained
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Source file
.openclaw/skills/ponytail-gain/SKILL.md

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The instructions Claude Code reads when this skill runs.

# Ponytail Gain

Display this scoreboard when invoked. One-shot: do NOT change mode, write flag
files, or persist anything.

The figures are the published benchmark medians (5 everyday tasks: email
validator, debounce, CSV sum, countdown timer, rate limiter; three models:
Haiku, Sonnet, Opus). They are measured, not computed from the current repo.
Source: `benchmarks/` and the README.

## Scoreboard

Render plain ASCII bars. The bar length shows the measured range; the label
carries the exact figure:

```
  ponytail gain                     benchmark median · 5 tasks · 3 models

  Lines of code   no-skill  ████████████████████  100%
                  ponytail  ██▌·················    6–20%   ▼ 80–94%
  Cost            no-skill  ████████████████████  100%
                  ponytail  █████▌··············   23–53%  ▼ 47–77%
  Speed           ponytail  ▸ 3–6× faster

  This repo:  /ponytail-debt  (shortcuts you deferred)
              /ponytail-audit (what's still cuttable)
```

## Honesty boundary

These are benchmark medians, not this repo. NEVER print a per-repo savings
number ("you saved X lines/tokens here"): the unbuilt version was never
written, so there is no real baseline to subtract from in a live repo. The
only real per-repo figures come from `/ponytail-debt` (a counted ledger), and
this card points there instead of inventing one.

## Boundaries

One-shot display. Edits
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