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Audit the whole repository for over-engineering, bloat, and deletion candidates. Use for audit this codebase, find bloat, or /ponytail-audit; use ponytail-review for a diff. One-shot report only; does not apply fixes.
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Resolve short approval against the latest checkpoint. Use for "lgtm", "looks good", "approved", or "go ahead"; not risky or review feedback.
Re-check a prior assistant claim. Use when user says "nack", "not convinced", or "check again"; not for review feedback.
UI/UX routing front door. Use as the front door for broad or ambiguous UI/UX work that needs the right build, redesign, audit, design-system, accessibility, or browser specialist. Do not use when the user already names a narrower UI skill.
Proposes UI Vault resource upgrades for a selected webpage. Use when the user asks for libraries, assets, effects, or inspiration for an existing page. Do not use for implementation or greenfield design.
Upload, list, or delete files with s3upload and return expiring Azure links. Use for configured temporary Azure storage; not for S3 or cloud setup.
Ship local Git changes by inspecting, polishing, validating, split-committing, and pushing. Use for commit, push, ship, delivery audit, or delivery blockers; not deploys or releases.
| name | ponytail-audit |
| description | Audit the whole repository for over-engineering, bloat, and deletion candidates. Use for audit this codebase, find bloat, or /ponytail-audit; use ponytail-review for a diff. One-shot report only; does not apply fixes. |
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ponytail-review, repo-wide. Scan the whole tree instead of a diff. Rank findings biggest cut first.
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.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.
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.
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.