ponylang

How the words go in a comment, docstring, release note, README, or a project's AGENTS.md — write plainly, say the fact, and stop. Load before writing any prose that ships with the code. Language-agnostic.

Structured debugging protocol with checkpoints. Load when debugging non-trivial issues — before forming any hypothesis about the cause.

Load the Pony language reference (capabilities, PonyCheck, stdlib pitfalls, mort pattern). Load it before Pony coding sessions.

What belongs in a project's AGENTS.md and what never does. Load before writing or changing AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md. Language-agnostic.

Ensemble code review with specialized reviewer personas. Has full (9-persona) and lightweight (4-persona) modes. Load when conducting a code review of a PR, branch, or local changes.

What earns a comment, what never belongs in one, and what to do when two distant things must change together. Load before writing or changing any comment or docstring. Language-agnostic.

Ensemble documentation review with specialized reviewer personas. Has full (9-persona) and lightweight (4-persona) modes. Load when reviewing documentation-only changes where code-focused personas don't apply.

Routing index for the Pony skills — tells you which pony-* skill to load for each task, and when. Load at the start of work in a Pony project.

Load when you need to reproduce or validate a gcc-specific or DragonFly-specific ponyc issue on a local VM, or to stand up a local DragonFly BSD development VM that matches ponyc tier-3 CI. Covers the prerequisite check, the sudo-free QEMU/KVM setup, the reused console automation, the in-VM gcc13 build env, and the gotchas (csh, screendump paths, boot timing, detached builds, per-block shells) that make hand-rolling one error-prone.

Load when you need to reproduce or validate a FreeBSD-specific ponyc issue on a local VM, or to stand up a local FreeBSD development VM that matches ponyc tier-3 CI. Covers the cloud-init seed, the sudo-free QEMU/KVM boot, the one-time expect/su root bootstrap, the clang build env, and the gotchas (freebsd-user login, no bash in base, growfs auto-resize, detached builds, per-block shells) that make hand-rolling one error-prone.

Load when you need to reproduce or validate an OpenBSD-specific ponyc issue on a local VM, or to stand up a local OpenBSD development VM that matches ponyc tier-3 CI. Covers the cloud-init seed (cdrom), the sudo-free QEMU/KVM boot, the doas-via-cloud-init setup (no expect bootstrap), the dedicated /build data disk, the datasize limit, the clang build env, and the gotchas (openbsd-user login, disklabel build disk, raised datasize, static-PIE static linking, pkg_add naming, detached builds, per-block shells) that make hand-rolling one error-prone.

Load when adding a new Linux distro/version (e.g. Ubuntu 26.04, Alpine 3.24) as a ponyc release target. Covers builder Dockerfile creation, image build dispatch and tag discovery, workflow updates, docs, release notes, and the post-merge Last Week in Pony announcement.

Create a new "Last Week in Pony" blog post from the open GitHub issue

Ensemble review of ponylang blog and Last Week in Pony prose. Runs lens personas in parallel — house voice, agency, narrative, reader-orientation, tightness, content-honesty, plus a conditional accuracy lens — checks the draft against the AGENTS.md editorial guidelines and the craft rules, and returns Fix/Park findings. Self-contained: no dependency on any other skill. Load after a draft exists, before the post PR.

Turn a Pony Development Sync meeting summary into a fact-checked comment on the open "Last Week in Pony" issue

Load when adding a new Linux distro/version (e.g. Alpine 3.24, Ubuntu 26.04) — or both arches for an existing one — as a fully supported ponyup bootstrap-test target. Covers the bootstrap-tester Dockerfile, image build dispatch and tag discovery, CI workflow updates (tier 1 / tier 2), ponyup-init.sh detection, optional canonical-example promotion, and release notes.

Guide for writing new pattern pages in the pony-patterns documentation. Load when adding a new pattern or a new pattern category.

Shuffle a freshly-merged RFC into its final numbered location. Load when an RFC PR has just been merged and the file still lives under text/0000-*.md (or has been numbered but is missing its tracking URLs). Creates the ponyc tracking issue, renames the file, fills in RFC PR and Pony Issue lines, commits to main, and posts an acceptance note on the open Last Week in Pony issue.

Triage and merge open Dependabot PRs for this repository. Verifies each PR is genuinely from Dependabot, closes spoofed or suspicious ones, and merges the clean ones one at a time — requesting a rebase before each subsequent merge so CI runs against a main that already includes this session's earlier dependency merges. Invoke explicitly with /dependabot-updates.

Twice-yearly workflow for bumping SSL builder images (OpenSSL, LibreSSL) to their latest series releases. Invoked via /update-ssl-builders.