dogfooding

dogfooding is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus. It costs 27 tokens per session (1,993 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An internal testing program where a product team uses its own product as real users would. The team records problems with evidence, severity, owners and follow-up decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan an internal beta, create daily or weekly usage routines, triage issues and decide whether a product is ready to ship. It is especially suited to products for creators when the team can follow that workflow.
Why use it?
It reveals everyday problems before release and prevents teams from relying on vague impressions or one-off testing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan an internal beta, create daily or weekly usage routines, triage issues and decide whether a product is ready to ship. It is especially suited to products for creators when the team can follow that workflow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus/dogfooding
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus --skill dogfooding
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,993 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00027 $0.01993
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00996
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00399
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00199

Measured 12d ago against content hash b9b1fa79be72, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dogfooding scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/dogfooding/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dogfooding

Scope

Covers

  • Designing and running a dogfooding loop where the product team uses the product like a real user would
  • Creating "creator commitments" when the product is for creators (e.g., publish a podcast, ship a workflow, run weekly reports)
  • Capturing issues as reproducible artifacts (not vibes): logs, severity, decisions, owners, and follow-through

When to use

  • "Set up a dogfooding program / dogfooding sprint for our product team."
  • "We’re shipping soon—make sure we’re using the product daily and fixing the biggest pain."
  • "We built this for creators; our team needs to be creators to understand the workflow."
  • "Create an internal beta plan and a weekly dogfooding report template."

When NOT to use

  • You need to validate market demand or solve who is the customer / what is the problem (do discovery first)
  • The product team cannot realistically represent the workflow (e.g., regulated roles, hardware constraints) without proxies
  • You’re looking for user research replacement (dogfooding complements -- not replaces -- external user feedback)
  • The only goal is "QA everything" (use a QA/test plan; dogfooding is for experience + value + workflow realism)
  • You need structured usability testing with real external users, task completion metrics, and think-aloud protocols (use usability-testing)
  • You’re planning the actual product launch/release rollout (use shipping-products)
  • You need a design critique session to evaluate visual/interaction quality (use running-design-reviews)
  • You want to build a framework for developing product taste and quality intuition (use product-taste-intuition)

Inputs

Minimum required

  • Product summary + target user persona (who it’s for; what job it does)
  • 1–3 core workflows to dogfood (end-to-end)
  • Time box + cadence (e.g., 1 week sprint; 20 min/day; weekly triage)
  • Participants (roles) + any "creator commitments" required
  • Environment constraints (prod vs staging; data/privacy constraints; access constraints)

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 130 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A b9b1fa79be72

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dogfooding is a skill published in the GitHub repository liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus (52 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 1,993 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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