ponytail-audit

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name: ponytail-audit description: > Whole-repo audit for over-engineering. Like ponytail-review, but scans the entire codebase instead of a diff: a ranked list of what to delete, simplify, or replace with stdlib/native equivalents. Use when the user says "audit this codebase", "audit for over-engineering", "what can I delete from this repo", "find bloat", "ponytail-audit", or "/ponytail-audit". One-shot report, does not apply fixes.

ponytail-review, repo-wide. Scan the whole tree instead of a diff. Rank findings biggest cut first.

Tags

Same as ponytail-review:

• delete: dead code, unused flexibility, speculative feature. Replacement: nothing.
• stdlib: hand-rolled thing the standard library ships. Name the function.
• native: dependency or code doing what the platform already does. Name the feature.
• reuse: equivalent helper, util, or pattern already in this repo. Name the path.
• yagni: abstraction with one implementation, config nobody sets, layer with one caller.
• shrink: same logic, fewer lines. Show the shorter form.

Hunt

Deps the stdlib or platform already ships, single-implementation interfaces, factories with one product, wrappers that only delegate, files exporting one thing, dead flags and config, hand-rolled stdlib, helpers duplicating an equivalent that already lives in this repo. Before emitting delete:, grep the whole tree for the symbol, including tests, fixtures and string or dynamic references.

Output

One line per finding, numbered and ranked: <N>. <tag> <what to cut>. <replacement>. [path], so the user can say "fix 2 and 5". End with net: -<N> lines, -<M> deps possible. Nothing to cut: Lean already. Ship.

Boundaries

Scope: over-engineering and complexity only. Correctness bugs, security holes, and performance are explicitly out of scope. Route them to a normal review pass. Lists findings, applies nothing. One-shot. "stop ponytail-audit" or "normal mode" to revert.