dogfood SKILL.md skillA
dogfood from ractive/hyalo is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ractive/hyalo/dogfood@git:20260904.162ed81Pins git:20260904.162ed81 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ractive/hyalo
- Path
.claude/skills/dogfood/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260904.162ed81, committed Sep 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 16, 2026
- Size
- 8,002 bytes
- Repository stars
- 27
- License
- MIT
Run a dogfooding session for hyalo — build from source, exercise the CLI against real knowledgebases (own KB, MDN, GitHub Docs, VS Code docs), find bugs, verify recent fixes, assess UX, measure performance, and write a structured report. Use this skill whenever the user says /dogfood, "dogfood", "run a dogfood session", "test hyalo against real data", or wants to exercise hyalo on real knowledgebases to find issues.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Dogfood Session
A dogfood session exercises hyalo against real knowledgebases to find bugs, verify fixes,
assess UX, and discover improvement opportunities. Sessions should feel like a real user
working with the tool — not a mechanical checklist. Be curious, follow interesting leads,
try edge cases that occur to you naturally.
## Phase 1: Prepare
1. **Build and install from source, then prove the `hyalo` on PATH is this tree**. The PATH
binary is a cargo install and goes stale silently: on 2026-09-04 it was three days and eleven
PRs behind `target/release/hyalo`, and a DEC-284 check against it nearly got filed as a bug.
```bash
cargo build --release
cargo install --path crates/hyalo-cli --target-dir target --force
test "$(hyalo --version | awk '{print $3}' | tr -d '(' | sed 's/+dirty$//')" = "$(git rev-parse --short=12 HEAD)" \
&& echo "hyalo on PATH is HEAD" || { echo "STALE hyalo on PATH: $(which hyalo)"; exit 1; }
```
`--target-dir target` reuses the release build so the install takes seconds; the version
string is `hyalo X.Y.Z (<12-char hash>[+dirty] <date>)`, and `+dirty` is fine — it only means
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ractive/hyalo/dogfood@sha256:fb2503d2a60efde8The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260904.162ed81, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_4qirdt3najgip7ko)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Apr 16, 2026 and Sep 4, 2026, about one every 71 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260904.162ed81 latest | 2026-09-04 | 162ed81 | 8,002 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260416.398bffc | 2026-04-16 | 398bffc | 6,914 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260416.48ee80d | 2026-04-16 | 48ee80d | 6,914 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8002 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
ractive/hyalo · 27 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-17 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4qirdt3najgip7ko GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ractive/hyalo/dogfood GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fb2503d2a60efde85673aa48f8a3da31987da00b0f534a51454c69b97342a48e
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.