OpenHarness
Open-source software and hardware for building with coding agents across software, design, circuits, data and video.
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AI Tool
Ponytail
Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior developer in the room.
Day 43 since launch · Launched 25 August 2026
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What is Ponytail?
Ponytail is an agent skill that pushes AI coding agents to write less code: reuse what exists, avoid needless abstractions and solve problems with the smallest change, because the best code is the code you never wrote.
Pros
- Keeps agent changes small and simple
- Hugely popular on GitHub
- MIT licensed
Cons
- Minimalism can be wrong for some tasks
- Needs a skills-capable agent
Who should use Ponytail
Developers tired of agents over-engineering simple changes.
Who may not need it
People who do not use coding agents.
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