ponytail-review

Run a complexity-focused review pass that flags dead code, reinvented standard library functions, unneeded dependencies, and speculative abstractions. Each finding is one line with the location, what to cut, and what replaces it, ending with a net line-reduction score.

It finds five categories: delete (dead code and unused flexibility), stdlib (hand-rolled versions of standard library functions), native (dependencies duplicating platform features), yagni (abstractions with one implementation), and shrink (logic expressible in fewer lines).

No. Correctness bugs, security holes, and performance problems are explicitly out of scope and should be routed to a normal review pass. This review only hunts complexity and over-engineering.

Avoid it when you need correctness, security, or performance feedback, since those are out of scope. It also never flags a single smoke test or assert-based self-check, which is considered the minimum, not bloat.

No. It only lists findings with locations and suggested replacements; it does not modify the code. You decide which deletions and simplifications to apply.