ponytail-debt
This skill scans code for specific comments, consolidating technical debt shortcuts into a single debt ledger to ensure deferred tasks are tracked and not forgotten. It generates a clear, one-shot report, helping teams effectively monitor and manage technical debt, thereby improving code quality and project health.
npx skills add https://github.com/dietrichgebert/ponytail --skill ponytail-debtBefore / After Comparison
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This skill automatically scans code and generates technical debt reports, consolidating all shortcuts into a ledger, ensuring debt is visible and effectively managed, significantly improving tracking efficiency and code quality.
Every deliberate ponytail shortcut is marked with a ponytail: comment naming
its ceiling and upgrade path. This collects them into one ledger so a deferral
can't quietly become permanent.
Scan
Grep the repo for comment markers, skipping node_modules, .git, and build
output:
grep -rnE '(#|//) ?ponytail:' . (add other comment prefixes if your stack uses them)
Each hit is one ledger row. The comment prefix keeps prose that merely mentions the convention out of the ledger.
Output
One row per marker, grouped by file:
<file>:<line>, <what was simplified>. ceiling: <the limit named>. upgrade: <the trigger to revisit>.
The convention is ponytail: <ceiling>, <upgrade path>, so pull the ceiling
and the trigger straight from the comment. Want an owner per row too? add
git blame -L<line>,<line>.
Flag the rot risk: any ponytail: comment that names no upgrade path or
trigger gets a no-trigger tag, those are the ones that silently rot.
End with <N> markers, <M> with no trigger. Nothing found: No ponytail: debt. Clean ledger.
Boundaries
Reads and reports only, changes nothing. To persist it, ask and it writes the
ledger to a file (e.g. PONYTAIL-DEBT.md). One-shot. "stop ponytail-debt" or
"normal mode" to revert.
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