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dogfood from conn-castle/agent-layer is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add conn-castle/agent-layer/dogfood@git:20261021.1cf1d1c

Pins git:20261021.1cf1d1c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: conn-castle/agent-layer
Path: .agent-layer/skills/dogfood/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20261021.1cf1d1c, committed Oct 21, 2026
First version recorded: Oct 21, 2026
Size: 7,654 bytes
Repository stars: 10
License: MIT

Explore Agent Layer through real tasks and inventive experiments in disposable projects; investigate failures, usability friction, and batch fixes. Use for product dogfooding in this repository, excluding skill-content evaluation and A/B benchmarks.

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 Agent Layer

Exercise the product through its public interfaces and inspect the resulting
state. Pursue useful real tasks, invent workflows, combine features, and follow
surprises. Look for confusing or missing capabilities as well as errors.
Use the current request to determine discovery, fix, and shipping scope.
Create disposable projects outside existing Git/Agent Layer roots, normally under
`/var/tmp/`; use nested projects only for deliberate discovery cases. Keep the
batch binary, harnesses, and evidence outside every cleanup/deletion target in a
unique retained directory under `.agent-layer/tmp/` or `/var/tmp/`.

When selecting coverage, read open
[GitHub issues](https://github.com/conn-castle/agent-layer/issues) and relevant
`docs/agent-layer/DECISIONS.md` entries. Use [the scenario menu](references/scenarios.md)
for ideas and known fragile boundaries; choose experiments beyond it too.
Consult [the source campaign](references/run-evidence.md) only when tracing a
lesson's provenance; its logs and historical approvals are not execution inputs.

## Candidate and workspace

- Build one fixed source snapshot per discovery batch and copy the binary into
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add conn-castle/agent-layer/dogfood@sha256:e80fcfd3e8ca6337

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261021.1cf1d1c, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_7rjt3mnudd24vkwa.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_7rjt3mnudd24vkwa)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Oct 21, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261021.1cf1d1c latest	2026-10-21	1cf1d1c	7,654 B	A	view · diff
git:20261021.ec22b54	2026-10-21	ec22b54	7,512 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7654 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

GitHub

conn-castle/agent-layer · 10 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7rjt3mnudd24vkwa
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=conn-castle/agent-layer/dogfood
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e80fcfd3e8ca6337c1bbd6579c26576639068ec7a12e071071a0b05a71a36c15

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.

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