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I built Ponytrail, a local audit trail for AI coding-agent edits
Key takeaways
- Ponytrail is a small CLI and bundled agent skill for recording why files changed, showing those changes as a local history tree, and reverting files from a previous snapshot.
- It keeps the trail in .pony-trail/ inside your project.
- Install the bundled pony-trail skill into your local agent tools:
Ponytrail is a small CLI and bundled agent skill for recording why files changed, showing those changes as a local history tree, and reverting files from a previous snapshot.
It keeps the trail in .pony-trail/ inside your project. Treat that folder as local runtime state; it should stay out of git.
Install the bundled pony-trail skill into your local agent tools:
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