ponytail

Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

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Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

AI pair programmers and coding assistants that live in your editor.

Key features

Good for

Stack & tags

Claude CodeCodexCursorNode.jsAgent Skillsagent-skillsai-agentsclaudeclaude-codeclaude-code-plugincursor-rulesdeveloper-toolsllm

Quick start

/plugin marketplace add DietrichGebert/ponytail
/plugin install ponytail@ponytail

From the project README on GitHub.

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