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Amp plugins

Ponytail

Ponytail forces the smallest solution that actually works. The Amp plugin applies Ponytail on every agent turn, keeps intensity modes isolated per thread, and exposes native controls in Amp's command palette.

Install it as a system plugin on macOS or Linux:

mkdir -p ~/.config/amp/plugins
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/o-az/skills/main/plugins/ponytail.ts \
  -o ~/.config/amp/plugins/ponytail.ts

Then run plugins: reload from Amp's command palette or restart Amp.

The current Amp CLI only accepts Amp-hosted URLs in amp plugins add. Rerun the command above to update this GitHub-hosted plugin.

Use

Ponytail starts in full mode. Open the command palette and use:

• ponytail: Change mode — set off, lite, full, or ultra for the active thread.
• ponytail: Show status — show the active and default modes.
• ponytail: Set default mode — save the mode used by new threads.
• ponytail: Open documentation — open Ponytail's upstream documentation.

The equivalent prompt commands also work. The / prefix is optional; @ and $ are accepted for compatibility with Ponytail's other adapters.

/ponytail status
/ponytail lite
/ponytail full
/ponytail ultra
/ponytail off
/ponytail default full
stop ponytail
normal mode

stop ponytail and normal mode only deactivate Ponytail when the entire prompt is the command, so ordinary requests containing either phrase do not switch modes accidentally.

Thread modes last for the current Amp process and reset to the configured default after Amp or the plugin restarts.

Set PONYTAIL_DEFAULT_MODE=off|lite|full|ultra to override the saved default.

Remove the plugin with:

rm ~/.config/amp/plugins/ponytail.ts

The Ponytail instructions embedded in the plugin are adapted from dietrichgebert/ponytail and distributed under its MIT license; the complete license notice is included in ponytail.ts.