The one prompt that installs all four
Open Claude Code, paste this, and it installs two of the four for you and hands you the two lines you type yourself. It reports back in plain English after each one, so you always know what just changed on your computer.
Before you paste
You need Claude Code open — Mac, Windows or Linux all work. Use the project you actually build in, not a scratch folder. It takes about fifteen minutes. Claude asks permission before each install, so say yes. Nothing here changes how Claude Code behaves until you switch it on, which is a separate step for the two that matter.
Then type these four lines inside Claude Code
Plugins install from the plugin menu, not the terminal, so Claude cannot do these for you. Paste them one at a time and wait for each to finish.
Only want one?
Make it Ponytail. It is the only one on this list that changes what Claude writes rather than how it runs, and you will see the difference in the very next thing you build.
Which one fixes your problem
Vibe coding falls over in four predictable places: you hit the usage limit mid-build, every message costs more than it should, the agent keeps re-reading the same files, and it does not know how to plan before it types. One of these for each.
"It writes way more code than I asked for"
Ponytail. Forces Claude down a checklist before it types — does this need to exist, is it already here, does the language handle it — so you get the small version instead of the framework.
"I keep hitting the usage limit"
OmniRoute. A switchboard on your own machine. When your Claude quota runs out it hands the job to another provider so you keep working instead of stopping.
"It re-reads the same files every time"
Graphify. Turns your codebase into a map it can look things up in. Best on the question grep is bad at: what breaks if I change this?
"It starts coding before it thinks"
Agent Skills. 25 skills covering planning, review, testing, security and shipping. Ask for an API and the API-design one fires without you naming it.
The prompt sets up all four. One at a time, this is the order: Ponytail first because it is instant, then Agent Skills, then Graphify once your project is big enough to have a shape, then OmniRoute the day you hit a wall.
The four, one at a time
What each one actually does, a prompt to prove it is working, and the catch. I have checked every number on this page against the actual repos, and where the makers' claim and the independent testing disagree, I have said so.
Ponytail · gets Claude to write less code
Left alone, Claude solves a small problem with a big solution. Ponytail injects a decision ladder it has to walk before writing anything: does this need to exist at all, is it already somewhere in the codebase, does the language handle it natively, is it already a dependency, can it be one line? Only then does it write something, and it writes the minimum.
The knock-on effect is fewer tokens, but that is a side effect. The mechanism is writing less code, not compressing anything.
The catch, and this one matters: the number going around is wrong. The maker's own benchmark says 54% less code — that is lines of code, not tokens. His own token figure is 22%. JetBrains then ran an independent test across 80 tasks nobody hand-picked and got 15% less code and 10% lower cost, with no measurable difference in quality either way. So it works, but the honest version is "writes noticeably less code, saves you about a tenth on cost", not "halves your tokens". The saving also concentrates on jobs where an agent would normally over-build; on code that is already lean it is close to nothing. JetBrains also found it did not fire on its own when installed passively, so if you see no difference, ask Claude to confirm the skill is actually loading. See it on GitHub →
OmniRoute · keeps you working past the usage limit
Your Claude plan has a cap and it always runs out mid-task. OmniRoute is a free switchboard that runs on your own computer and connects Claude Code to a large catalogue of other providers. When your Claude usage runs out it passes the job to the next one instead of stopping you. Nothing is sent anywhere except to the provider actually answering.
Installing it does nothing on its own. To actually switch Claude Code over, use the prompt below on the day you hit a limit. It is reversible in one command.
The catch: the numbers in circulation are inflated. The repo lists 352 providers, of which about 152 have a free tier — not 300-odd free ones. And the big free-token figure is a theoretical total added up across forty-plus separate providers' free allowances, each needing its own signup and its own API key. It is not a pool you can draw on, and the maintainer re-audits it fortnightly, so it moves. The real catch is simpler: when it falls back, a different model answers, not Claude. Fine for admin, not for client data — open the dashboard at localhost:20128 and check which provider it is about to use first. Some providers' terms also forbid proxy use, which is on you, not the tool. Make sure you install from diegosouzapw/OmniRoute; there are hundreds of forks with stale numbers. See it on GitHub →
The bigger catch, and this is the one to actually pay attention to: when you go to connect OmniRoute to its free providers, some of them do not ask for an API key. They ask you to paste a session cookie from a site you are already logged into. The provider list includes one that wants your claude.ai session cookie and one that wants your chatgpt.com session token. A handful of others work by reverse-engineering a company's public chat widget.
A session cookie is not a password you can scope or revoke per app — it is the thing that proves you are you. Pasting it into a third-party router hands that tool the ability to act as you on that account, and using it that way breaches most providers' terms of service. Getting your Anthropic or OpenAI account suspended costs you far more than the tokens you saved.
What to do: use OmniRoute, but only connect providers that authenticate with a proper API key — that is 233 of the 352, so you are not short of options. If a provider asks you to paste a cookie or a session token from another site, skip it. There is no version of that trade that is worth it.
Graphify · a map of your codebase
Ask Claude what depends on a file and it goes looking, opening things one at a time and burning context. Graphify reads your whole project once — code, docs, database schemas, configs — and builds a queryable map of what connects to what. It then looks things up in the map instead of re-reading files. You get an interactive graph.html, a written report and a JSON file out of it.
The code parsing is done properly on your own machine, not by a model guessing, so the connections it draws are real ones and it labels which were explicit and which it inferred.
The catch: "no model needed" applies to your code only. Docs, PDFs and images go through your assistant's model, so on a documentation-heavy project you are paying tokens to build the map. The map is also a snapshot — it needs rebuilding as your project moves, and nobody warns you when it has gone stale. Ignore the speed multipliers you will see quoted around this one; they come from blog posts, not from the makers, and no independent test against a normal setup exists yet. Judge it on the dependency question above, which is the thing a plain file search genuinely cannot answer. See it on GitHub →
Agent Skills · 25 skills that switch themselves on
One pack covering the whole job: planning and task breakdown, spec-driven and test-driven development, code review, debugging, security hardening, performance, documentation, git workflow, browser testing, and shipping. You do not pick one. Ask for an API and the API-design skill fires. Start on an interface and the frontend one fires. There is a router skill in there whose whole job is choosing.
It is by Addy Osmani, whose GitHub bio reads "Former Director at Google working on Gemini and Google Cloud" — he is also the person behind Chrome DevTools and Lighthouse. Worth knowing, because it explains why the skills read like engineering process rather than prompt tricks.
The catch: the pack is 25 skills, not 24 — 24 for the actual work plus one router that picks between them. Small thing, but if you count them and get a different number to what you were told, that is why. The real gotcha is installation: if you install one skill on its own rather than the whole pack, it copies the skill but not the shared reference files it links to, so it runs with dead links and quietly does less. There is an open issue about it. Install the whole pack. See it on GitHub →
Take it all out again
None of this is permanent. If you want to start clean, paste this and Claude removes all four and puts your settings back.
Keep whatever solved a real problem and bin the rest. Most people keep Ponytail and one of the other three. That is a good place to land — four things all fighting over your context window is its own problem.
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