DietrichGebert/ponytail · freshness 100/100 · rescored August 4, 2026
ponytail
Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.
The answer
Yes. ponytail is actively maintained — last commit 19 days ago, freshness 100/100.
| Signal | Value | Effect | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last commit | 19 days ago | -8 | Last push 19 days ago — inside a normal release month. |
| Commits, 90 days | 100+ | +6 | 100+ commits in the last 12 weeks. |
| Last release | v4.8.4 · 36 days ago | +4 | Released v4.8.4 36 days ago; 14 releases in the last year. |
| Release cadence | 0 days, median | not scored | |
| Issue response | too few issues to sample | none | Not enough recent issues to measure a response time. |
| Unanswered issues | 100% of 4 sampled | not scored | |
| Committers, 90 days | 40 | +5 | 40 people committed in the last 90 days. |
| Bus factor | 1 | not scored | |
| Archived | no | not scored | |
| Licence | MIT | not scored | |
| Stars | 95,208 | not scored | |
| Open issues | 56 | not scored |
The same verdict, in words
Against it: Last push 19 days ago — inside a normal release month. The signals totalled 107; 100 is the ceiling. For it: 100+ commits in the last 12 weeks. Released v4.8.4 36 days ago; 14 releases in the last year. 40 people committed in the last 90 days.
Last push 19 days ago, 100+ commits in the last 90 days, last release v4.8.4 36 days ago, 40 committers in 90 days. Read from the GitHub API; DietrichGebert/ponytail carries 95,208 stars and 56 open issues.
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