dogfooding-program SKILL.md skillA
dogfooding-program from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/dogfooding-program@git:20260728.fac4544Pins git:20260728.fac4544 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
- Path
skills/big-tech-processes/dogfooding-program/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260728.fac4544, committed Jul 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 18, 2026
- Size
- 3,197 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Run an internal dogfooding program with staged cohorts, one feedback intake, and numeric exit criteria to general availability. Use when a pre-release product needs real internal use to surface bugs and adoption risk before it ships to customers.
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
# Dogfooding program Dogfooding means your own company uses the unfinished product to do real work, so the bugs that only appear in real use surface on employees instead of customers. It fails in two directions: as theater, where people install the build and never touch it, and as a popularity contest, where ten enthusiasts' praise hides a hundred quiet abandonments. A program with cohorts, routed feedback, and hard exit gates keeps it honest. ## Method 1. **Define what counts as using it.** A passive install is not dogfooding. Require the cohort to do actual work on the new thing, and demote or remove the old tool so falling back takes effort. If people can quietly keep using the incumbent, you learn nothing. 2. **Ramp cohorts in rings.** Start with the team (dozens), widen to the org (hundreds), then the whole company (thousands). Each ring is a gate: do not widen until the current ring's crash rate and top bugs sit under threshold. Microsoft calls these rings; Google runs fishfood before dogfood. 3. **Route all feedback into one intake.** Bugs go to the tracker with build number and repro steps, feature requests to a backlog, sentiment to a survey. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/dogfooding-program@sha256:f18ee5914c2d6686The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.fac4544, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 18, 2026 and Jul 28, 2026, about one every 10 days.
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| git:20260728.fac4544 latest | 2026-07-28 | fac4544 | 3,197 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260718.7c1285c | 2026-07-18 | 7c1285c | 3,187 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
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Source
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_foegoj7dvrmt7zs4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/dogfooding-program GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f18ee5914c2d6686f64484d1e5fb799b800c16c91945b9d85e4f55aa14906add
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