ponytail-review

Invoke this review on a diff and it flags unnecessary complexity with one line per finding: location, what to cut, and what replaces it. It ends with a net line count showing how much shorter the code could be.

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

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 verification, security auditing, or performance analysis, 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 replacements; it does not modify the code. You decide which suggestions to apply in a separate editing step.