Ponytail
Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.
Our verdict
A solid, actively developed project. This assessment is derived from GitHub's own repository metrics on 2026-08-24, not from hands-on testing.
Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote. The project is written primarily in JavaScript, released under MIT, and has 109,701 stars and 6,049 forks on GitHub. 64 contributors have committed to it, and the most recent push was 2026-08-07. The latest tagged release is v4.9.0 (2026-08-07). Figures come from the GitHub API on 2026-08-24 and are refreshed daily; the score below weighs adoption, maintenance, release discipline, contributor breadth, licence clarity and issue hygiene.
Repository
- Licence
- MIT
- Language
- JavaScript
- Last push
- 2026-08-07
Releases
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v4.9.0v4.9.0: 53 commits of doing less -
v4.8.4v4.8.4: lazy in Hermes now -
v4.8.3v4.8.3: lazy in subagents too -
v4.8.2v4.8.2: now on npm -
v4.8.1v4.8.1: consistent versioning -
v4.8.0v4.8.0: comprehension first, now with an MCP server
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| Browser Use | 9.3 | — | Yes | ||
| Gemini CLI | 9.2 | — | Yes | ||
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