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Adds a reference to Ponytail's AGENTS.md as a pre-built personality template that CodeWhale users can copy as their project instructions. Ponytail enforces lazy, minimal-code discipline (YAGNI, stdlib first, native features, one-liners) and cuts 80-94% of generated code in benchmarks with zero install — it works because CodeWhale already reads AGENTS.md natively.
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This pull request updates the configuration documentation to suggest using Ponytail's AGENTS.md for a pre-built agent personality. The review feedback recommends polishing the added text to improve professionalism and grammar, providing a clear code suggestion for the rewrite.
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| For a pre-built personality that enforces lazy, minimal-code discipline, | ||
| copy [Ponytail's `AGENTS.md`](https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail/blob/main/AGENTS.md) | ||
| as your project instructions. It cuts 80–94% of generated code in benchmarks | ||
| by forcing the agent to try stdlib, native features, and one-liners before | ||
| writing anything. No install, no plugin — just the instruction file. |
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The phrasing can be polished to sound more professional and grammatically complete. Specifically:
- Use "a lazy, minimal-code discipline" instead of "lazy, minimal-code discipline".
- Use "the standard library" instead of "stdlib" for better clarity and formality.
- Use "No installation or plugins are required" instead of "No install, no plugin" to avoid colloquialisms ("install" as a noun).
| For a pre-built personality that enforces lazy, minimal-code discipline, | |
| copy [Ponytail's `AGENTS.md`](https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail/blob/main/AGENTS.md) | |
| as your project instructions. It cuts 80–94% of generated code in benchmarks | |
| by forcing the agent to try stdlib, native features, and one-liners before | |
| writing anything. No install, no plugin — just the instruction file. | |
| For a pre-built personality that enforces a lazy, minimal-code discipline, | |
| copy [Ponytail's AGENTS.md](https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail/blob/main/AGENTS.md) | |
| as your project instructions. It cuts 80–94% of generated code in benchmarks | |
| by forcing the agent to try the standard library, native features, and one-liners before | |
| writing anything. No installation or plugins are required — just the instruction file. |
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Depends on DietrichGebert/ponytail#108 — the PR that officially adds CodeWhale to Ponytail's supported agent list (README badge bump, install section, agent-portability table). CodeWhale already reads AGENTS.md and works today, but the official endorsement should land first. |
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Thanks for this, Ben — and appreciate the nod to Ponytail. Closing this one for now, but want to explain why and point at what we'd genuinely welcome instead. Why we're not merging a third-party-personality recommendation here:
What we'd genuinely welcome instead: the effect you're after — a "lazy/minimal-code" discipline that actually reduces code volume — is exactly the kind of thing that belongs in the base prompt and constitution, not a doc pointer. We'd love a PR that proposes concrete adjustments to If Ponytail ships a CodeWhale adapter and you want to revisit a first-class integration later, that's a separate conversation — file an issue and we'll talk. Thanks again for kicking it off. |
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Blocked by DietrichGebert/ponytail#124 — Ponytail must officially list CodeWhale as a supported agent before CodeWhale recommends Ponytail to its users.
Adds a reference to Ponytail in the Project instructions section of CONFIGURATION.md.
What
Ponytail is a personality overlay (a pre-built
AGENTS.md) that makes any AI agent lazy-efficient:Why here
CodeWhale already reads
AGENTS.mdnatively. Ponytail users can already copy the file and it works. This PR just surfaces that option in the docs so CodeWhale users know it exists.What changes
One paragraph in
docs/CONFIGURATION.md, under theAGENTS.mdbullet. No code changes.Prior art
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