dogfood-tui SKILL.md skillA

dogfood-tui from coder/agent-tty is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add coder/agent-tty/dogfood-tui@git:20260623.42c390b

Pins git:20260623.42c390b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
coder/agent-tty
Path
skill-data/dogfood-tui/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260623.42c390b, committed Jun 23, 2026
First version recorded
Apr 13, 2026
Size
6,929 bytes
Repository stars
30
License
Apache-2.0

Structured TUI dogfooding and QA workflow using agent-tty. Use for exploratory testing, bug hunting, release-readiness validation, and UX review of terminal applications.

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 TUIs with agent-tty

Use this skill when the user wants structured exploratory testing, bug hunting, release-readiness validation, or UX review for a terminal application or TUI.

## Prerequisites

This workflow assumes the `agent-tty` core skill is already loaded.
If it is not, load it first with `agent-tty skills get agent-tty`.
Use this skill as the specialized QA layer on top of the core terminal automation workflow.

## Choose the Evidence Instrument

Open an `agent-tty` session when the question needs runtime terminal evidence:
crashes, input routing, focus/navigation behavior, resize behavior, alt-screen or
screen-lifecycle cleanup, animation, transient corruption, or a reviewer-facing
recording of a real interaction.

Prefer source reading, focused unit tests, or layout tests before opening a
session for questions about layout math, string width/alignment, style mapping,
or static rendering logic. A session can still corroborate the result, but it
should not be the first or only instrument for source-answerable questions.

Treat `snapshot --format text` as searchable terminal text evidence, not as an
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add coder/agent-tty/dogfood-tui@sha256:7b542c019a32cda1

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260623.42c390b, 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 Apr 13, 2026 and Jun 23, 2026, about one every 71 days.

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git:20260413.4a9c08a2026-04-13 4a9c08a 5,704 BA 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 (6929 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

coder/agent-tty · 30 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nqdtd2e3zhwl5eoc
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=coder/agent-tty/dogfood-tui
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7b542c019a32cda187c4292312418d2b89d7f2cd39e3836dd016aefd558abe9a

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