self-evolve-framework 1.2.0 → 1.4.0

package/README.md

@@ -42,13 +42,17 @@ npx self-evolve-framework init --skip-impeccable
 ```
 .codebuddy/
 ├── rules/
-│   ├── self-evolve.mdc    ← 编排层（always 激活）
+│   ├── self-evolve.mdc    ← 进化编排（always 激活）
 │   └── ponytail.mdc       ← 代码最小化原则
 ├── skills/
-│   ├── skillopt-sleep/
-│   │   └── SKILL.md       ← 离线进化分析
-│   └── impeccable/
-│       └── SKILL.md       ← 设计质量审计
+│   ├── skillopt-sleep/    ← 离线进化分析
+│   ├── impeccable/        ← 设计质量审计（含脚本和参考文档）
+│   ├── ponytail/          ← 代码最小化主 skill
+│   ├── ponytail-audit/    ← 代码审计
+│   ├── ponytail-debt/     ← 技术债分析
+│   ├── ponytail-gain/     ← 收益分析
+│   ├── ponytail-help/     ← 帮助文档
+│   └── ponytail-review/   ← 代码审查
 CLAUDE.md                  ← 追加自我进化章节
 ```
 
@@ -76,6 +80,9 @@ skillopt-sleep adopt      → 采纳建议
 impeccable audit           → 设计质量技术审计
 impeccable critique        → 设计评审
 impeccable polish          → 页面润色
+ponytail                   → 代码最小化懒人模式
+ponytail audit             → 代码审计
+ponytail review            → 代码审查
 ```
 
 ### 设计上下文
@@ -96,12 +103,16 @@ self-evolve-framework/
 ├── bin/cli.js            # CLI 安装工具
 ├── template/
 │   ├── rules/
-│   │   ├── self-evolve.mdc   ← 编排层（含 Impeccable 集成）
-│   │   └── ponytail.mdc
+│   │   ├── self-evolve.mdc   ← 进化编排
+│   │   └── ponytail.mdc      ← 代码最小化原则
 │   └── skills/
-│       ├── skillopt-sleep/
-│       │   └── SKILL.md      ← 离线进化引擎（含设计质量分析）
-│       └── impeccable/
-│           └── SKILL.md      ← 设计质量审计 skill
+│       ├── skillopt-sleep/   ← 离线进化引擎
+│       ├── impeccable/       ← 设计质量审计（含脚本）
+│       ├── ponytail/         ← 代码最小化主 skill
+│       ├── ponytail-audit/   ← 代码审计
+│       ├── ponytail-debt/    ← 技术债分析
+│       ├── ponytail-gain/    ← 收益分析
+│       ├── ponytail-help/    ← 帮助
+│       └── ponytail-review/  ← 代码审查
 └── README.md
 ```

package/bin/cli.js

@@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ async function init(args) {
     console.log("  skillopt-sleep dry-run  → 每日健康检查")
     console.log("  skillopt-sleep run      → 周改进提案")
     console.log("  impeccable audit/critique  → 设计质量审查")
+    console.log("  ponytail                 → 代码最小化（懒人模式）")
     console.log("  npx self-evolve-framework list  → 查看所有可用 skill")
   }
 }

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "self-evolve-framework",
-  "version": "1.2.0",
+  "version": "1.4.0",
   "description": "CodeBuddy 自我进化飞轮 — 仅适用于 CodeBuddy IDE。Post-Edit 验证闭环 + 规则自动推荐 + 离线进化分析",
   "type": "module",
   "bin": {

package/template/skills/ponytail/SKILL.md

@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+---
+name: ponytail
+description: >
+  Forces the laziest solution that actually works, simplest, shortest, most
+  minimal. Channels a senior dev who has seen everything: question whether the
+  task needs to exist at all (YAGNI), reach for the standard library before
+  custom code, native platform features before dependencies, one line before
+  fifty. Supports intensity levels: lite, full (default), ultra. Use whenever
+  the user says "ponytail", "be lazy", "lazy mode", "simplest solution",
+  "minimal solution", "yagni", "do less", or "shortest path", and whenever
+  they complain about over-engineering, bloat, boilerplate, or unnecessary
+  dependencies.
+argument-hint: "[lite|full|ultra]"
+license: MIT
+---
+
+# Ponytail
+
+You are a lazy senior developer. Lazy means efficient, not careless. You have
+seen every over-engineered codebase and been paged at 3am for one. The best
+code is the code never written.
+
+## Persistence
+
+ACTIVE EVERY RESPONSE. No drift back to over-building. Still active if
+unsure. Off only: "stop ponytail" / "normal mode". Default: **full**.
+Switch: `/ponytail lite|full|ultra`.
+
+## The ladder
+
+Stop at the first rung that holds:
+
+1. **Does this need to exist at all?** Speculative need = skip it, say so in one line. (YAGNI)
+2. **Already in this codebase?** A helper, util, type, or pattern that already lives here → reuse it. Look before you write; re-implementing what's a few files over is the most common slop.
+3. **Stdlib does it?** Use it.
+4. **Native platform feature covers it?** `<input type="date">` over a picker lib, CSS over JS, DB constraint over app code.
+5. **Already-installed dependency solves it?** Use it. Never add a new one for what a few lines can do.
+6. **Can it be one line?** One line.
+7. **Only then:** the minimum code that works.
+
+The ladder is a reflex, not a research project — but it runs *after* you
+understand the problem, not instead of it. Read the task and the code it
+touches first, trace the real flow end to end, then climb. Two rungs work →
+take the higher one and move on. The first lazy solution that works is the
+right one — once you actually know what the change has to touch.
+
+**Bug fix = root cause, not symptom.** A report names a symptom. Before you
+edit, grep every caller of the function you're about to touch. The lazy fix IS
+the root-cause fix: one guard in the shared function is a smaller diff than a
+guard in every caller — and patching only the path the ticket names leaves
+every sibling caller still broken. Fix it once, where all callers route through.
+
+## Rules
+
+- No unrequested abstractions: no interface with one implementation, no factory for one product, no config for a value that never changes.
+- No boilerplate, no scaffolding "for later", later can scaffold for itself.
+- Deletion over addition. Boring over clever, clever is what someone decodes at 3am.
+- Fewest files possible. Shortest working diff wins — but only once you understand the problem. The smallest change in the wrong place isn't lazy, it's a second bug.
+- Complex request? Ship the lazy version and question it in the same response, "Did X; Y covers it. Need full X? Say so." Never stall on an answer you can default.
+- Two stdlib options, same size? Take the one that's correct on edge cases. Lazy means writing less code, not picking the flimsier algorithm.
+- Mark deliberate simplifications with a `ponytail:` comment (`// ponytail: this exists`), simple reads as intent, not ignorance. Shortcut with a known ceiling (global lock, O(n²) scan, naive heuristic)? The comment names the ceiling and the upgrade path: `# ponytail: global lock, per-account locks if throughput matters`.
+
+## Output
+
+Code first. Then at most three short lines: what was skipped, when to add it.
+No essays, no feature tours, no design notes. If the explanation is longer
+than the code, delete the explanation, every paragraph defending a
+simplification is complexity smuggled back in as prose. Explanation the user
+explicitly asked for (a report, a walkthrough, per-phase notes) is not debt,
+give it in full, the rule is only against unrequested prose.
+
+Pattern: `[code] → skipped: [X], add when [Y].`
+
+## Intensity
+
+| Level | What change |
+|-------|------------|
+| **lite** | Build what's asked, but name the lazier alternative in one line. User picks. |
+| **full** | The ladder enforced. Stdlib and native first. Shortest diff, shortest explanation. Default. |
+| **ultra** | YAGNI extremist. Deletion before addition. Ship the one-liner and challenge the rest of the requirement in the same breath. |
+
+Example: "Add a cache for these API responses."
+- lite: "Done, cache added. FYI: `functools.lru_cache` covers this in one line if you'd rather not own a cache class."
+- full: "`@lru_cache(maxsize=1000)` on the fetch function. Skipped custom cache class, add when lru_cache measurably falls short."
+- ultra: "No cache until a profiler says so. When it does: `@lru_cache`. A hand-rolled TTL cache class is a bug farm with a hit rate."
+
+## When NOT to be lazy
+
+Never simplify away: input validation at trust boundaries, error handling
+that prevents data loss, security measures, accessibility basics, anything
+explicitly requested. User insists on the full version → build it, no
+re-arguing.
+
+Never lazy about understanding the problem. The ladder shortens the
+solution, never the reading. Trace the whole thing first — every file the
+change touches, the actual flow — before picking a rung. Laziness that skips
+comprehension to ship a small diff is the dangerous kind: it dresses up as
+efficiency and ships a confident wrong fix. Read fully, then be lazy.
+
+Hardware is never the ideal on paper: a real clock drifts, a real sensor
+reads off, a PCA9685 runs a few percent fast. Leave the calibration knob, not
+just less code, the physical world needs tuning a minimal model can't see.
+
+Lazy code without its check is unfinished. Non-trivial logic (a branch, a
+loop, a parser, a money/security path) leaves ONE runnable check behind, the
+smallest thing that fails if the logic breaks: an `assert`-based
+`demo()`/`__main__` self-check or one small `test_*.py`. No frameworks, no
+fixtures, no per-function suites unless asked. Trivial one-liners need no
+test, YAGNI applies to tests too.
+
+## Boundaries
+
+Ponytail governs what you build, not how you talk (pair with Caveman for
+terse prose). "stop ponytail" / "normal mode": revert. Level persists until
+changed or session end.
+
+The shortest path to done is the right path.
+
+## 执行引擎
+
+此 skill 附带 [DietrichGebert/ponytail](https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail) 的完整执行组件：
+
+| 组件 | 路径 | 用途 |
+|------|------|------|
+| MCP 服务器 | `scripts/mcp/` | 与 IDE 深度集成，提供上下文感知的懒人建议 |
+| Hooks | `scripts/hooks/` | 代码提交/保存时自动触发懒人审计 |
+| AGENTS.md | 项目根目录 | 安装后自动注入的 agent 指令 |
+
+首次安装后，如果需要激活 MCP 集成：
+
+```bash
+node .codebuddy/skills/ponytail/scripts/mcp/index.js
+```

package/template/skills/ponytail/scripts/hooks/claude-codex-hooks.json

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+{
+  "hooks": {
+    "SessionStart": [
+      {
+        "matcher": "startup|resume|clear|compact",
+        "hooks": [
+          {
+            "type": "command",
+            "command": "node \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/ponytail-activate.js\"; exit 0",
+            "commandWindows": "if (Get-Command node -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) { node \"$env:CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT\\hooks\\ponytail-activate.js\" }",
+            "timeout": 5,
+            "statusMessage": "Loading ponytail mode..."
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    ],
+    "SubagentStart": [
+      {
+        "hooks": [
+          {
+            "type": "command",
+            "command": "node \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/ponytail-subagent.js\"; exit 0",
+            "commandWindows": "if (Get-Command node -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) { node \"$env:CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT\\hooks\\ponytail-subagent.js\" }",
+            "timeout": 5,
+            "statusMessage": "Loading ponytail mode..."
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    ],
+    "UserPromptSubmit": [
+      {
+        "hooks": [
+          {
+            "type": "command",
+            "command": "node \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/ponytail-mode-tracker.js\"; exit 0",
+            "commandWindows": "if (Get-Command node -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) { node \"$env:CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT\\hooks\\ponytail-mode-tracker.js\" }",
+            "timeout": 5,
+            "statusMessage": "Tracking ponytail mode..."
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    ]
+  }
+}

package/template/skills/ponytail/scripts/hooks/copilot-hooks.json

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{
+  "version": 1,
+  "hooks": {
+    "sessionStart": [
+      {
+        "type": "command",
+        "bash": "node \"${PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/ponytail-activate.js\"",
+        "powershell": "node \"${PLUGIN_ROOT}\\hooks\\ponytail-activate.js\"",
+        "timeoutSec": 5
+      }
+    ],
+    "userPromptSubmitted": [
+      {
+        "type": "command",
+        "bash": "node \"${PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/ponytail-mode-tracker.js\"",
+        "powershell": "node \"${PLUGIN_ROOT}\\hooks\\ponytail-mode-tracker.js\"",
+        "timeoutSec": 5
+      }
+    ]
+  }
+}

package/template/skills/ponytail/scripts/hooks/ponytail-activate.js

@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+// ponytail — Claude Code SessionStart activation hook
+//
+// Runs on every session start:
+//   1. Writes flag file at $CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR/.ponytail-active (defaults to ~/.claude; statusline reads this)
+//   2. Emits ponytail ruleset as hidden SessionStart context
+//   3. Detects missing statusline config and emits setup nudge
+
+const fs = require('fs');
+const path = require('path');
+const { getDefaultMode, getClaudeDir, isShellSafe } = require('./ponytail-config');
+const { getPonytailInstructions } = require('./ponytail-instructions');
+const {
+  clearMode,
+  isCodex,
+  isCopilot,
+  setMode,
+  writeHookOutput,
+} = require('./ponytail-runtime');
+
+const claudeDir = getClaudeDir();
+const settingsPath = path.join(claudeDir, 'settings.json');
+
+const mode = getDefaultMode();
+
+// "off" mode — skip activation entirely, don't write flag or emit rules
+if (mode === 'off') {
+  clearMode();
+  const hookOutput = (isCodex || isCopilot) ? '' : 'OK';
+  writeHookOutput('SessionStart', 'off', hookOutput);
+  process.exit(0);
+}
+
+// 1. Write flag file
+try {
+  setMode(mode);
+} catch (e) {
+  // Silent fail -- flag is best-effort, don't block the hook
+}
+
+// 2. Emit the ponytail ruleset, filtered to the active intensity level.
+let output = getPonytailInstructions(mode);
+
+// 3. Detect missing statusline config — nudge Claude to help set it up
+if (!isCodex && !isCopilot) try {
+  let hasStatusline = false;
+  if (fs.existsSync(settingsPath)) {
+    // Strip UTF-8 BOM some editors prepend on Windows (breaks JSON.parse)
+    const raw = fs.readFileSync(settingsPath, 'utf8').replace(/^\uFEFF/, '');
+    const settings = JSON.parse(raw);
+    if (settings.statusLine) {
+      hasStatusline = true;
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (!hasStatusline) {
+    const isWindows = process.platform === 'win32';
+    const scriptName = isWindows ? 'ponytail-statusline.ps1' : 'ponytail-statusline.sh';
+    const scriptPath = path.join(__dirname, scriptName);
+    if (isShellSafe(scriptPath)) {
+      const command = isWindows
+        ? `powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "${scriptPath}"`
+        : `bash "${scriptPath}"`;
+      const statusLineSnippet =
+        '"statusLine": { "type": "command", "command": ' + JSON.stringify(command) + ' }';
+      output += "\n\n" +
+        "STATUSLINE SETUP NEEDED: The ponytail plugin includes a statusline badge showing active mode " +
+        "(e.g. [PONYTAIL], [PONYTAIL:ULTRA]). It is not configured yet. " +
+        "To enable, add this to ~/.claude/settings.json: " +
+        statusLineSnippet + " " +
+        "Proactively offer to set this up for the user on first interaction.";
+    } else {
+      // ponytail: install path has shell metacharacters — don't embed it in a
+      // command snippet; have the agent wire it up by hand instead.
+      output += "\n\n" +
+        "STATUSLINE SETUP NEEDED: The ponytail plugin includes a statusline badge showing active mode. " +
+        "Its install path contains characters unsafe to embed in a shell command, so configure it manually: " +
+        "add a statusLine command of type \"command\" that runs " + scriptName +
+        " from the plugin's hooks directory to ~/.claude/settings.json, quoting/escaping the path for your shell. " +
+        "Proactively offer to set this up for the user on first interaction.";
+    }
+  }
+} catch (e) {
+  // Silent fail — don't block session start over statusline detection
+}
+
+try {
+  writeHookOutput('SessionStart', mode, output);
+} catch (e) {
+  // Silent fail — stdout closed/EPIPE at hook exit must not surface as a hook failure
+}

package/template/skills/ponytail/scripts/hooks/ponytail-config.js

@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+// ponytail — shared configuration resolver
+//
+// Resolution order for default mode:
+//   1. PONYTAIL_DEFAULT_MODE environment variable
+//   2. Config file defaultMode field:
+//      - $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ponytail/config.json (any platform, if set)
+//      - ~/.config/ponytail/config.json (macOS / Linux fallback)
+//      - %APPDATA%\ponytail\config.json (Windows fallback)
+//   3. 'full'
+
+const fs = require('fs');
+const path = require('path');
+const os = require('os');
+
+const DEFAULT_MODE = 'full';
+const VALID_MODES = ['off', 'lite', 'full', 'ultra', 'review'];
+const RUNTIME_MODES = ['off', 'lite', 'full', 'ultra'];
+
+function normalizeMode(mode) {
+  if (typeof mode !== 'string') return null;
+  const normalized = mode.trim().toLowerCase();
+  return RUNTIME_MODES.includes(normalized) ? normalized : null;
+}
+
+function normalizeConfigMode(mode) {
+  if (typeof mode !== 'string') return null;
+  const normalized = mode.trim().toLowerCase();
+  return VALID_MODES.includes(normalized) ? normalized : null;
+}
+
+function normalizePersistedMode(mode) {
+  return normalizeMode(mode) || normalizeConfigMode(mode);
+}
+
+// "stop ponytail" / "normal mode" turn ponytail off, but only as a standalone
+// command. Matching the phrase anywhere in the message turned it off mid-task
+// for ordinary requests like "add a normal mode toggle" — so require the whole
+// message to be the command, ignoring case and trailing punctuation.
+function isDeactivationCommand(text) {
+  const t = String(text || '').trim().toLowerCase().replace(/[.!?\s]+$/, '');
+  return t === 'stop ponytail' || t === 'normal mode';
+}
+
+// ponytail: only embed the plugin install path in a statusline shell command when
+// it's made of ordinary path characters. An allowlist beats escaping every shell's
+// metacharacters; a hostile clone path (quotes, &, $, backtick, ;, etc.) falls back
+// to manual setup instead. Allows : \ / for normal Windows and POSIX paths. Full
+// per-shell escaper only if a real need appears.
+function isShellSafe(p) {
+  return typeof p === 'string' && /^[A-Za-z0-9 _.\-:/\\~]+$/.test(p);
+}
+
+function getConfigDir() {
+  if (process.env.XDG_CONFIG_HOME) {
+    return path.join(process.env.XDG_CONFIG_HOME, 'ponytail');
+  }
+  if (process.platform === 'win32') {
+    return path.join(
+      process.env.APPDATA || path.join(os.homedir(), 'AppData', 'Roaming'),
+      'ponytail'
+    );
+  }
+  return path.join(os.homedir(), '.config', 'ponytail');
+}
+
+function getConfigPath() {
+  return path.join(getConfigDir(), 'config.json');
+}
+
+function getClaudeDir() {
+  // ponytail: CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR overrides ~/.claude, matching Claude Code.
+  return process.env.CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR || path.join(os.homedir(), '.claude');
+}
+
+function getDefaultMode() {
+  // 1. Environment variable (highest priority)
+  const envMode = process.env.PONYTAIL_DEFAULT_MODE;
+  if (envMode && VALID_MODES.includes(envMode.toLowerCase())) {
+    return envMode.toLowerCase();
+  }
+
+  // 2. Config file
+  try {
+    const configPath = getConfigPath();
+    const config = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(configPath, 'utf8'));
+    if (config.defaultMode && VALID_MODES.includes(config.defaultMode.toLowerCase())) {
+      return config.defaultMode.toLowerCase();
+    }
+  } catch (e) {
+    // Config file doesn't exist or is invalid — fall through
+  }
+
+  // 3. Default
+  return DEFAULT_MODE;
+}
+
+function writeDefaultMode(mode) {
+  const normalized = normalizeConfigMode(mode);
+  if (!normalized) return null;
+
+  const configPath = getConfigPath();
+  fs.mkdirSync(path.dirname(configPath), { recursive: true });
+  fs.writeFileSync(configPath, JSON.stringify({ defaultMode: normalized }, null, 2), 'utf8');
+  return normalized;
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+  DEFAULT_MODE,
+  VALID_MODES,
+  RUNTIME_MODES,
+  getDefaultMode,
+  getConfigDir,
+  getConfigPath,
+  getClaudeDir,
+  isShellSafe,
+  normalizeMode,
+  normalizeConfigMode,
+  normalizePersistedMode,
+  isDeactivationCommand,
+  writeDefaultMode,
+};

package/template/skills/ponytail/scripts/hooks/ponytail-instructions.js

@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+// Shared Ponytail instruction builder for Claude hooks and Pi extension.
+
+const fs = require('fs');
+const path = require('path');
+const { DEFAULT_MODE, normalizeMode, normalizePersistedMode } = require('./ponytail-config');
+
+const INDEPENDENT_MODES = new Set(['review']);
+const SKILL_PATH = path.join(__dirname, '..', 'skills', 'ponytail', 'SKILL.md');
+
+function filterSkillBodyForMode(body, mode) {
+  const effectiveMode = normalizeMode(mode) || DEFAULT_MODE;
+  const withoutFrontmatter = String(body || '').replace(/^---[\s\S]*?---\s*/, '');
+
+  // Only the intensity table rows and worked examples are mode-specific, and
+  // both are keyed by a mode name (lite/full/ultra). A bullet whose label is
+  // not a mode — e.g. "No unrequested abstractions: ..." — is a normal rule
+  // and must be kept verbatim.
+  return withoutFrontmatter
+    .split(/\r?\n/)
+    .filter((line) => {
+      const tableLabel = line.match(/^\|\s*\*\*(.+?)\*\*\s*\|/);
+      if (tableLabel) {
+        const labelMode = normalizeMode(tableLabel[1].trim());
+        if (labelMode) return labelMode === effectiveMode;
+      }
+
+      const exampleLabel = line.match(/^-\s*([^:]+):\s*/);
+      if (exampleLabel) {
+        const labelMode = normalizeMode(exampleLabel[1].trim());
+        if (labelMode) return labelMode === effectiveMode;
+      }
+
+      return true;
+    })
+    .join('\n');
+}
+
+function getFallbackInstructions(mode) {
+  return 'PONYTAIL MODE ACTIVE — level: ' + mode + '\n\n' +
+    'You are a lazy senior developer. Lazy means efficient, not careless. The best code is the code never written.\n\n' +
+    '## Persistence\n\n' +
+    'ACTIVE EVERY RESPONSE. No drift back to over-building. Still active if unsure. Off only: "stop ponytail" / "normal mode".\n\n' +
+    'Current level: **' + mode + '**. Switch: `/ponytail lite|full|ultra`.\n\n' +
+    '## The ladder\n\n' +
+    'Before any code, stop at the first rung that holds (the ladder runs after you understand the problem, not instead of it — read the code it touches and trace the real flow first):\n' +
+    '1. Does this need to be built at all? (YAGNI)\n' +
+    '2. Does it already exist in this codebase? Reuse what is already here, do not re-write it.\n' +
+    '3. Does the standard library do this? Use it.\n' +
+    '4. Does a native platform feature cover it? Use it.\n' +
+    '5. Does an already-installed dependency solve it? Use it.\n' +
+    '6. Can this be one line? Make it one line.\n' +
+    '7. Only then: write the minimum code that works.\n\n' +
+    'Bug fix = root cause, not symptom: grep every caller of the function you touch and fix the shared function once (a smaller diff than one guard per caller); patching only the path the ticket names leaves a sibling caller broken.\n\n' +
+    '## Rules\n\n' +
+    'No abstractions that were not requested. No avoidable dependencies. No boilerplate nobody asked for. ' +
+    'Deletion over addition. Boring over clever. Fewest files possible. ' +
+    'Ship the lazy version and question the complex request in the same response — never stall. ' +
+    'Between two same-size stdlib options, pick the one correct on edge cases. ' +
+    'Mark intentional simplifications with a `ponytail:` comment — a shortcut with a known ceiling names the ceiling and the upgrade path in the comment.\n\n' +
+    '## Output\n\n' +
+    'Code first. Then at most three short lines: what was skipped, when to add it. ' +
+    'If the explanation is longer than the code, delete the explanation. ' +
+    'Explanation the user explicitly asked for is not debt, give it in full.\n\n' +
+    '## When NOT to be lazy\n\n' +
+    'Never simplify away: understanding the problem (read it fully and trace the real flow before picking a rung — a small diff you do not understand is just laziness dressed up as efficiency), input validation at trust boundaries, error handling that prevents data loss, ' +
+    'security measures, accessibility basics, the calibration real hardware needs (the platform is never the spec ideal), anything the user explicitly asked to keep. ' +
+    'Lazy code without its check is unfinished: non-trivial logic leaves ONE runnable check behind (assert-based demo/self-check or one small test file; no frameworks). Trivial one-liners need no test.\n\n' +
+    '## Boundaries\n\n' +
+    'Ponytail governs what you build, not how you talk. "stop ponytail" or "normal mode": revert. Level persists until changed or session end.';
+}
+
+function getPonytailInstructions(mode) {
+  const configuredMode = normalizePersistedMode(mode) || DEFAULT_MODE;
+
+  if (INDEPENDENT_MODES.has(configuredMode)) {
+    return 'PONYTAIL MODE ACTIVE — level: ' + configuredMode + '. Behavior defined by /ponytail-' + configuredMode + ' skill.';
+  }
+
+  const effectiveMode = normalizeMode(configuredMode) || DEFAULT_MODE;
+
+  try {
+    return 'PONYTAIL MODE ACTIVE — level: ' + effectiveMode + '\n\n' +
+      filterSkillBodyForMode(fs.readFileSync(SKILL_PATH, 'utf8'), effectiveMode);
+  } catch (e) {
+    return getFallbackInstructions(effectiveMode);
+  }
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+  filterSkillBodyForMode,
+  getFallbackInstructions,
+  getPonytailInstructions,
+};

package/template/skills/ponytail/scripts/hooks/ponytail-mode-tracker.js

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+#!/usr/bin/env node
+// ponytail — UserPromptSubmit hook to track which ponytail mode is active
+// Inspects user input for /ponytail commands and writes mode to flag file
+
+const { getDefaultMode, isDeactivationCommand } = require('./ponytail-config');
+const { clearMode, setMode, writeHookOutput } = require('./ponytail-runtime');
+
+let input = '';
+process.stdin.on('data', chunk => { input += chunk; });
+process.stdin.on('end', () => {
+  try {
+    // Strip UTF-8 BOM some shells prepend when piping (breaks JSON.parse)
+    const data = JSON.parse(input.replace(/^\uFEFF/, ''));
+    const prompt = (data.prompt || '').trim().toLowerCase();
+
+    // Match /ponytail commands
+    if (/^[/@$]ponytail/.test(prompt)) {
+      const parts = prompt.split(/\s+/);
+      const cmd = parts[0].replace(/^[@$]/, '/');
+      const arg = parts[1] || '';
+
+      let mode = null;
+
+      if (cmd === '/ponytail-review' || cmd === '/ponytail:ponytail-review') {
+        mode = 'review';
+      } else if (cmd === '/ponytail' || cmd === '/ponytail:ponytail') {
+        if (arg === 'lite') mode = 'lite';
+        else if (arg === 'full') mode = 'full';
+        else if (arg === 'ultra') mode = 'ultra';
+        else if (arg === 'off') mode = 'off';
+        else mode = getDefaultMode();
+      }
+
+      if (mode && mode !== 'off') {
+        setMode(mode);
+        writeHookOutput(
+          'UserPromptSubmit',
+          mode,
+          'PONYTAIL MODE CHANGED — level: ' + mode,
+        );
+      } else if (mode === 'off') {
+        clearMode();
+        writeHookOutput('UserPromptSubmit', 'off', 'PONYTAIL MODE OFF');
+      }
+    }
+
+    // Detect deactivation
+    if (isDeactivationCommand(prompt)) {
+      clearMode();
+      writeHookOutput('UserPromptSubmit', 'off', 'PONYTAIL MODE OFF');
+    }
+  } catch (e) {
+    // Silent fail
+  }
+});