Every deliberate ponytail shortcut is marked with a comment naming its ceiling and upgrade path (older code may say ). This collects them into one ledger so a deferral can't quietly become permanent. Scan Grep the repo for comment markers, skipping and everything the files ignore (dependencies, build output, caches, in any stack): (add other comment prefixes if your stack uses them) If the user names their own marker word ( ), grep for that word instead. Each hit is one ledger row. The comment prefix keeps prose that merely mentions the convention out of the ledger. Skip hits that are not a d…