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DietrichGebert/ponytail

Saturatedrank #92

Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

146.7k+10.4k · 7d 7.9k 354est. MITJavaScriptpushed 13d ago
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Composite

72

conf 65%

Momentum

77

conf 60%

Vitality (PVI)

63

conf 67%

Community

73

conf 60%

Security & maint.

76

conf 85%

Ecosystem influence

71

conf 60%

Opportunity

54

conf 60%

Breakout · 7d

38%

conf 71%

Executive summary

ponytail is currently classified as saturated with a composite score of 72/100. Momentum (77) and vitality (63) diverge — attention is running ahead of maintenance depth. Estimated 7-day gain of 10,403 stars against a 146.7k-star base. Risk is assessed as moderate; the interpretable model puts its probability of entering the top trend cohort within 7 days at 38%.

90-day trajectory

+54.5k · 30d
2026-06-302026-09-27

Score breakdown

Every input, weight and normalized value — nothing hidden. Inputs marked est. are estimated until the full ingestion pipeline lands.

Momentum

Star velocityest.25%100
Star accelerationest.15%41
Fork velocityest.10%100
Contributor growthest.10%77
Issue activity growthest.10%90
PR activity growthest.10%71
External mention velocityest.10%69
Release event impactest.5%74
Trending-rank persistenceest.5%33

Model tn-interpretable-1.0.0 · confidence 60% · coverage 100%

Project Vitality Index

Commit consistency20%59
Release cadenceest.15%72
PR responsivenessest.15%42
Issue responsivenessest.15%55
Contributor diversityest.10%94
Maintainer continuityest.10%53
Documentation qualityest.5%67
Dependency freshnessest.5%86
Security hygieneest.5%73

Model tn-interpretable-1.0.0 · confidence 67% · coverage 100%

Security & maintenance

Release recency25%69
License clarity20%92
Maintenance status25%59
Dependency stalenessest.15%70
Bus factorest.15%100

Model tn-interpretable-1.0.0 · confidence 85% · coverage 100%

Ecosystem influence

Dependent repositoriesest.30%94
Quality-weighted dependentsest.20%78
Documentation citationsest.15%63
Contributor overlapest.15%34
Registry adoptionest.10%25
Topic centralityest.10%100

Model tn-interpretable-1.0.0 · confidence 60% · coverage 92% · missing: packageRegistryAdoption