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ponytail-audit

Audit the whole repo for over-engineering. A ranked list of what to delete, simplify, or replace with stdlib or native features.

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ponytail-audit
description
Audit the whole repo for over-engineering. A ranked list of what to delete, simplify, or replace with stdlib or native features.
homepage
https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail
license
MIT
ponytail-review, repo-wide. Scan the whole tree instead of a diff. Rank findings biggest cut first. ## Tags Same as ponytail-review: - `delete:` dead code, unused flexibility, speculative feature. Replacement: nothing. - `stdlib:` hand-rolled thing the standard library ships. Name the function. - `native:` dependency or code doing what the platform already does. Name the feature. - `yagni:` abstraction with one implementation, config nobody sets, layer with one caller. - `shrink:` same logic, fewer lines. Show the shorter form. ## Hunt Deps the stdlib or platform already ships, single-implementation interfaces, factories with one product, wrappers that only delegate, files exporting one thing, dead flags and config, hand-rolled stdlib. ## Output One line per finding, ranked: `<tag> <what to cut>. <replacement>. [path]`. End with `net: -<N> lines, -<M> deps possible.` Nothing to cut: `Lean already. Ship.` ## Boundaries Scope: over-engineering and complexity only. Correctness bugs, security holes, and performance are explicitly out of scope. Route them to a normal review pass. Lists findings, applies nothing. One-shot. "stop ponytail-audit" or "normal mode" to revert.
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