dsh-ponytail
A port of Ponytail for DeepSeek Harness providing senior-engineer YAGNI heuristics and six skills.
Install
$ dsh plugin --profile web add @wenaixi/dsh-ponytailPlugin Overview & Capabilities
AI-assisted organization based on the public repository snapshot. The content must be grounded in source evidence and does not replace compatibility or security verification.
Key Capabilities
- Injects a 7-step pragmatic engineering ladder (YAGNI, reuse, standard library, native, existing dependencies, one-liner, minimal implementation) via systemPrompt sections
- Provides 6 built-in agent skills: ponytail, ponytail-review, ponytail-audit, ponytail-debt, ponytail-gain, and ponytail-help
- Supports multiple intensity modes including off, lite, full (default), and ultra
- Integrates seamlessly into the DSH Web UI configuration slot with diagnostic priority chains (env, profile patch, config file, fallback)
- Offers session-level mode switching and persistent configuration via slash commands and config files
Useful For
- Preventing over-engineering and enforcing YAGNI principles during AI-assisted software development
- Running automated diff reviews focused on code simplification, deletion, and stdlib adoption
- Auditing codebases to identify redundant patterns and quantify maintainability gains
- Tracking and harvesting ponytail debt comments in project repositories
Who It Fits
- Developers looking to prevent AI code bloat and maintain minimal, pragmatic codebases
- Engineering leads enforcing YAGNI and standard library reuse standards in DeepSeek Harness
- DeepSeek Harness users requiring integrated code review and debt analysis skills
Documented Limitations
- Temporary session mode switches reset on new session startup unless explicitly saved to configuration via commands or UI
- Does not register standalone tools; all functionalities are delivered as skills or system prompt injections
- CLI task invocations containing the word 'headless' may interfere with command parsing
DSH Compatibility
Version-specific runtime evidence collected by DSH Plugin. A missing result means we have not tested that combination yet.
Security Signals
Objective signals discovered from package metadata and source inspection. These are not a guarantee that a plugin is safe.
package.json declares 1 runtime, 5 development, 4 peer, and 0 optional dependencies.
package.json declares DSH bundle metadata.
GitHub reports the repository license as MIT.
A root package.json was captured and can be inspected by the registry.
Public GitHub source metadata is available for this registry snapshot.
Source & Registry Notes
Public provenance, Registry classification, and the latest source check for this entry, kept separate from runtime verification.
- Source repository
- Wenaixi/dsh-ponytail
- Registry source
- GitHub · dsh-plugin topic
- Registry classification
- Plugin
- Source checked
- 32237aa · 2026-10-04
This project is independently indexed from public source information. DSH Plugin is not affiliated with DeepSeek or the plugin author. Always check the author repository before installation.
Repository Activity
- GitHub stars
- 14GitHub stars
- Forks
- 2
- Open issues
- 2
- Last commit
- 2026-10-04
- Last release
- 2026-10-04
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