ponytail-gain

name ponytail-gain description Show ponytail measured impact as a scoreboard: less code, less cost, more speed, from the benchmark medians. One-shot display. homepage https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail license MIT Ponytail Gain Display this scoreboard when invoked. One-shot: do NOT change mode, write flag files, or persist anything. The figures are the published benchmark medians (5 everyday tasks: email validator, debounce, CSV sum, countdown timer, rate limiter; three models: Haiku, Sonnet, Opus). They are measured, not computed from the current repo. Source: benchmarks/ and the README. Scoreboard Render plain ASCII bars. The bar length shows the measured range; the label carries the exact figure: ponytail gain benchmark median · 5 tasks · 3 models Lines of code no-skill ████████████████████ 100% ponytail ██▌················· 6–20% ▼ 80–94% Cost no-skill ████████████████████ 100% ponytail █████▌·············· 23–53% ▼ 47–77% Speed ponytail ▸ 3–6× faster This repo: /ponytail-debt (shortcuts you deferred) /ponytail-audit (what's still cuttable) Honesty boundary These are benchmark medians, not this repo. NEVER print a per-repo savings number ("you saved X lines/tokens here"): the unbuilt version was never written, so there is no real baseline to subtract from in a live repo. The only real per-repo figures come from /ponytail-debt (a counted ledger), and this card points there instead of inventing one. Boundaries One-shot display. Edits nothing, changes no mode. "stop ponytail" or "normal mode": revert.