ponytail-gain

# 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