CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. Entries are grouped by date (UTC) with newest first.

2026-09-04

• CHANGED: Update pony-ref for ponyc 0.70.0 steed model changes (PR #74)

2026-08-27

• ADDED: Add anti-pattern: mirroring internal layout in test assertions (PR #72)

2026-08-04

• CHANGED: Specify claude-opus-4-6 for writing subagents on Anthropic sessions (PR #70)

2026-07-13

• ADDED: Reject formulaic docstring openers like "Names the..." (PR #69)

2026-07-12

• ADDED: Point nondeterministic failures at scheduling, not logic (PR #67)
• ADDED: Note that a tag reference doesn't keep an object's fields alive (PR #66)
• ADDED: Add pony-agents-md, the rulebook for what belongs in AGENTS.md (PR #64)
• CHANGED: Hold edits until an ensemble review round finishes (PR #65)
• CHANGED: Treat prose findings as defects, not style suggestions (PR #63)

2026-07-10

• CHANGED: Rescope what earns a comment to a durable fact, not a body description (PR #62)
• ADDED: Add pony-prose, the rulebook for writing prose plainly (PR #61)
• CHANGED: Scope a fix to the defect, not to the report (PR #60)

2026-07-09

• ADDED: Add pony-comments, and make the editor review against it (PR #59)
• CHANGED: Make code review comment editor more stringent (PR #58)
• CHANGED: Remove the coupling documentation principle (PR #57)

2026-07-04

• ADDED: Flag coupling comments that don't earn their keep in the code review editor persona (PR #56)

2026-07-03

• ADDED: Flag invented jargon in the code review editor persona (PR #55)

2026-06-30

• CHANGED: Added persona to lightweight code review (PR #54)

2026-06-28

• ADDED: New pony-code-review editor persona (PR #53)
• ADDED: Add pony-vet-suspected-issues skill (PR #52)

2026-06-13

• CHANGED: Clarify literal-path requirement in pony-code-review tmp dir step (PR #51)

2026-05-22

• ADDED: OpenAI Codex support (PR #44)
• ADDED: PDF versions of the pony-ref reference papers (PR #43)
• ADDED: Documentation review skill (PR #41)

2026-05-21

• ADDED: Meta-skill that adds routing for agents to all the skills (PR #40)
• FIXED: Improve software design skill performance (PR #39)
• FIXED: Bundle pony-code-review's principles instead of reading global CLAUDE.md (PR #36)

2026-05-20

• ADDED: Incorporate swarm testing techniques into property-based testing skill (PR #35)

2026-04-07

• CHANGED: Design personas must explore before committing; orchestrator gates quality (PR #31)
• FIXED: Skeptic should redirect when subtraction removes everything (PR #30)

2026-04-04

• CHANGED: Remove pony-ffi-audit skill
• FIXED: Multi-type PR documentation in pony-release-notes (PR #28)
• ADDED: pony-debug skill (PR #21)
• ADDED: pony-ensemble skill (PR #18)
• ADDED: pony-synthesize skill (PR #18)
• ADDED: pony-software-design skill (PR #18)
• ADDED: pony-test-design skill (PR #18)
• ADDED: pony-code-review skill (PR #18)
• ADDED: pony-pbt-patterns skill (PR #18)

2026-04-02

• ADDED: pony-examples-readme skill (PR #17)
• ADDED: pony-library-readme skill (PR #17)
• ADDED: pony-release-notes skill (PR #17)

2026-03-14

• FIXED: pony-ref incorrectly stated _method is type-private; it is package-private (PR #13)
• FIXED: pony-ref incorrectly stated type aliases can't have docstrings (PR #13)

2026-03-10

• ADDED: pony-ffi-audit skill (PR #4)

2026-03-09

• ADDED: pony-ref skill (PR #2)