Comparison
Socratic vs Ponytail
Ponytail has more GitHub stars (164,743 vs 128). Ponytail was updated more recently (last commit 2h ago). Data comes straight from GitHub and refreshes daily.
Socratic
Self questioning skill for agents , claude code , codex etc
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git clone https://github.com/m4vic/socratic
Ponytail
Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.
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/plugin marketplace add DietrichGebert/ponytail| Metric | Socratic | Ponytail |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Agent skill | Agent skill |
| GitHub stars | 128 | 164,743 |
| Stars, last 7 days | n/a | +461 |
| Forks | 19 | 8,888 |
| Upvotes | 0 | 1 |
| Language | n/a | JavaScript |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Last commit | 2mo ago | 2h ago |
| Created | Feb 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| Categories | n/a | AI & LLM tooling |