What’s New

ponytail v4.8.4

v4.8.4

v4.8.4: lazy in Hermes now

Added
  • Ponytail now runs as a native Hermes Agent plugin with always-on context, bundled skills, and slash commands
  • Ponytail ships as a Devin CLI plugin
Changed
  • The skill now triggers on any coding task, not just keyword prompts, improving recall on coding tasks from 2/6 to 6/6 with precision unchanged
Fixed
  • Benchmarks now strip block comments before counting lines of code
  • Benchmark rejects --ollama-url without a host
New
  • Ponytail now runs as a native Hermes Agent plugin (#323) — always-on context, bundled skills, and slash commands.
  • Ponytail ships as a Devin CLI plugin (#318).
  • The skill now triggers on any coding task, not just keyword prompts (#447) — description-driven hosts load it reliably on plain coding work, recall on coding tasks went 2/6 to 6/6 with precision unchanged.
Docs
  • Sponsors section, with GreenPT as the first sponsor (#321)
  • Announcement banner replaces the badge; waitlist teaser added and translated (#316, #314, #312)
  • Swift/SwiftUI section in platform-native.md (#313)
  • Star History chart and Trendshift badges in the READMEs (#294, #293)
  • ES and Korean READMEs synced with the Devin CLI addition (#322)
Fixes
  • benchmarks: strip block comments before counting LOC (#232)
  • benchmark: reject --ollama-url without a host (#315)

Full changelog: https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail/compare/v4.8.3...v4.8.4

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