ponytail-programming-skill/README.md

Ponytail Programming Skill

Hermes skill distilled from DietrichGebert/ponytail for programming tasks.

It teaches the agent to prefer YAGNI, standard library, native platform features, existing dependencies, deletion, and the minimum correct code while preserving validation, security, accessibility, calibration, and one smallest runnable check for non-trivial logic.

Install

Copy the skill directory into your Hermes skills tree:

mkdir -p ~/.hermes/skills/software-development/ponytail-programming
cp skill/ponytail-programming/SKILL.md ~/.hermes/skills/software-development/ponytail-programming/SKILL.md

Start a new Hermes session before expecting the skill loader to see it.

Source

Learned from upstream commit 0403c4dd50ee6d0db2c3ec70b2be6655f9cb65a9.