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DietrichGebert/ponytail

Saturatedrank #15

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

99.8k+12.8k · 7d 5.5k 283est. MITJavaScriptpushed 3d ago
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Composite

76

conf 65%

Momentum

79

conf 60%

Vitality (PVI)

70

conf 67%

Community

72

conf 60%

Security & maint.

90

conf 85%

Ecosystem influence

69

conf 60%

Opportunity

55

conf 60%

Breakout · 7d

39%

conf 71%

Executive summary

ponytail is currently classified as saturated with a composite score of 76/100. Momentum (79) and vitality (70) diverge — attention is running ahead of maintenance depth. Estimated 7-day gain of 12,803 stars against a 99.8k-star base. Risk is assessed as low; the interpretable model puts its probability of entering the top trend cohort within 7 days at 39%.

90-day trajectory

+67.1k · 30d
2026-05-132026-08-10

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%74
Issue activity growthest.10%76
PR activity growthest.10%71
External mention velocityest.10%100
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%92
Release cadenceest.15%72
PR responsivenessest.15%42
Issue responsivenessest.15%62
Contributor diversityest.10%91
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%94
License clarity20%92
Maintenance status25%92
Dependency stalenessest.15%70
Bus factorest.15%100

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

Ecosystem influence

Dependent repositoriesest.30%91
Quality-weighted dependentsest.20%75
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