ponytail-review
Code review focused exclusively on over-engineering. Finds what to delete: reinvented standard library, unneeded dependencies, speculative abstractions, dead flexibility. One line per finding: location, what to cut, what replaces it. Use when the user says "review for over-engineering", "what can we delete", "is this over-engineered", "simplify review", or invokes /ponytail-review. Complements correctness-focused…
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A SKILL.md agent skill that runs a code review focused solely on over-engineering, flagging reinvented standard library code, unneeded dependencies, speculative abstractions, and dead flexibility. Each finding is one line giving location, what to cut, and what replaces it, ending with a net lines-removable score.
Use it when you want a review pass that only hunts complexity to delete, leaving correctness and security to a normal review.
Use it to
- Run a simplify-only review on a diff
- Ask what can be deleted from a codebase
- Check whether a module is over-engineered
- Find reinvented standard library code to replace
- Score how many lines a change could shed
For Developers wanting a dedicated over-engineering review pass
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- DietrichGebert/ponytail
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