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dsh-ponytail

Lazy senior dev minimal-code ruleset and prompt skills for DeepSeek Harness.

Terminal & TUIDeveloper ToolsSecurity & Policy
11GitHub Stars2ForksUpdated2026-09-09

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$ dsh plugin --profile web add link:$(pwd)

Plugin Overview & Capabilities

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dsh-ponytail is a DeepSeek Harness plugin port of DietrichGebert/ponytail, bringing a minimal-code, lazy-senior-developer mindset to DSH agent sessions. It injects structured engineering decision ladders (lite, full, ultra) directly into system prompts and provides on-demand commands and skills like review, audit, debt tracking, and gain metrics to prevent overengineering.

Key Capabilities

  • Injects session-level minimal-code system prompt rulesets across Lite, Full, Ultra, and Off modes
  • Provides /ponytail command to inspect status, toggle intensity levels, or persist user-level default modes
  • Offers /ponytail-review skill to identify overengineering in recent changes
  • Offers /ponytail-audit skill for repository-wide overengineering analysis
  • Offers /ponytail-debt skill to compile annotated debt items into a ledger
  • Offers /ponytail-gain and /ponytail-help skills for scorecards and reference guides
  • Supports hot-reloading user configuration and Cordis profile-level configuration

Useful For

  • Preventing AI agents from introducing speculative abstractions, unneeded dependencies, or redundant code
  • Auditing and reviewing code diffs or full repositories for over-engineered solutions
  • Tracking technical debt tagged via ponytail comments during development sessions
  • Enforcing pragmatic YAGNI and standard-library-first design principles during autonomous coding

Who It Fits

  • Developers using DeepSeek Harness who want concise, minimal-diff implementations from the model
  • Engineering leads enforcing YAGNI and minimalist code quality standards in agent workflows
  • DSH users looking to reduce unnecessary agent code churn

Documented Limitations

  • Token, latency, and cost reductions are conditional on task complexity and are not guaranteed across all models
  • Subagent tool executions do not inherit parent system prompts due to isolation boundaries
  • Profile-level Cordis configuration changes require restarting the DSH profile

DSH Compatibility

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Security Signals

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Source & Registry Notes

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Source repository
MengYuil/dsh-ponytail
Registry source
GitHub · dsh-plugin topic
Registry classification
Plugin
Source checked
9b03d3f · 2026-09-20

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Repository Activity

GitHub stars
11GitHub stars
Forks
2
Open issues
2
Last commit
2026-09-09
Last release
2026-09-09
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