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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Ponytail at a glance
Checked 21 Oct 2026Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote. Added from the nightly trending feed on 2026-10-21 with 169,733 GitHub stars. So far only the licence comes from GitHub; the other facts are unknown until someone checks them.
RepoQuarry. “Ponytail.” Checked 21 Oct 2026. https://repoquarry.dev/projects/ponytailWhat it replaces
Nothing people pay for: it’s a free tool, listed because people search for it. Find similar projects in Agent skills and plugins.
Facts, with sources
Every answer links to where we found it. We read the documentation; we did not install it.
No licence changes since we started watching. Licence watch: follow Ponytail and we email you if its licence terms change.
Growth and activity in detail
Is it popular, and is anyone still working on it? From GitHub.
- Actively maintained100+ people committing, active 8 of the last 12 weeks.
100+ people committing in the last 12 months · 139 pull requests merged in 30 days · 90 issues opened, 165 closed in 30 days
Stars over time
Building historyNot enough history for a 7-day gain.
The chart appears after a few nightly checks.
Commits per week, last 52 weeks
active 8 of the last 12 weeksDown 21% on the 12 weeks before.
Where these numbers come from
- Stars, forks, releases: GitHub's public API, fetched every night (last fetch today).
- Star history: counted every night since 21 Oct 2026.
- Commits and people committing: GitHub's repository statistics, counted weekly. Names are never stored.
- Pull requests and issues: counted from GitHub for the last 30 days.
- Stars show popularity, not quality. The facts below are checked separately, by reading the project's own documentation. How we check.