packages / ponytail
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@dietrichgebert/ponytail

Lazy senior dev mode for AI agents — the best code is the code you never wrote. Bias toward minimal diffs.

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Install

$ pi install npm:@dietrichgebert/ponytail

Installs from npm into ~/.pi/agent/. Add -l for project-local (.pi/). Manage with pi list / pi update / pi remove.

What this package can reach

Detected automatically from the source at version 4.8.4. This describes access, not safety — you decide whether it's appropriate for what the package claims to do.

  • 🤖
    Behavior — Changes how the agent thinks Modifies the system prompt, injects messages, or rewrites conversation context.
  • 📁
    Files — Reads files outside your project Touches paths beyond the working directory, such as your home folder.
  • ⇄
    Intercepts tools — Can block or rewrite tool calls Subscribes to tool_call/tool_result/input. Can change a command after you approved the one displayed.
  • ▤
    UI — Draws its own interface Renders widgets, footers, dialogs or full-screen views.

What it actually did when run

observed

Loaded in a sandbox with no network, a read-only filesystem and a recording stand-in for pi's API. This is what it called — not what the source suggests it might.

Events subscribed agent_endagent_startbefore_agent_startinputsession_start

APIs called isIdleregisterCommandsendUserMessagesessionManager.getBranchui.notifyui.setStatusui.theme.fg

2 calls the source scan did not predict

ui.setStatus · ui.theme.fg

Reached through a value the scan could not follow — passed as an argument, stored on another object, or returned by a helper.

Run against version 4.8.4 on 2026-08-01. Registration-time behaviour under default settings; other configurations may differ.

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