dogfood

dogfood is a skill for Claude Code from rtorcato/repo-tooling. It costs 104 tokens per session (2,254 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A testing workflow that runs a repository's own tools against temporary, newly created projects containing realistic files such as package manifests or source code. The word dogfood means using your own product yourself to expose problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test a tool on fresh project fixtures, inspect what breaks, and report findings without deleting files or filing issues automatically.
Why use it?
It finds failures that may only appear when the tool meets projects it did not create, while keeping tests out of the real repository.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the repo-tooling plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to test a tool on fresh project fixtures, inspect what breaks, and report findings without deleting files or filing issues automatically.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rtorcato/repo-tooling/dogfood
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 rtorcato/repo-tooling --skill dogfood
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rtorcato/repo-tooling

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install repo-tooling, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for dogfood

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rtorcato/repo-tooling/dogfood/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/rtorcato/repo-tooling/dogfood)
Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for dogfood

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rtorcato/repo-tooling/dogfood"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rtorcato/repo-tooling/dogfood.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 104 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,254 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00104 $0.02254
Opus 5 $0.00052 $0.01127
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00451
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00225

Measured 10d ago against content hash 0ac1b26ad13d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

dogfood scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 10d 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

! rm -rf <BASE>
skills/dogfood/SKILL.md · 210 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 210 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

dogfood

Point the repo's own tooling at repos it has never seen and find out what it does wrong. Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

The bugs live where the tool meets content it did not write. An empty directory finds nothing — every finding from the run this skill is based on came from a fixture that already had a package.json, a manifest, or a source file with an opinion in it. Scaffolding onto nothing is the one case the authors already tested.

What this never does

  • Never writes outside its temp directory. Not the repo's working tree, not ~/.claude, not a global git config (git config --global writes a stowed dotfile on this machine).
  • Never deletes. rm is often permission-blocked for an agent, and a half-deleted fixture is worse than a kept one. Report the path and size at the end; the user removes it when they are done reading it.
  • Never files an issue without asking, and never labels one ai-ready — that label is the human's gate into ai-issue-loop.

Step 1 — ask what to exercise

Use AskUserQuestion. Look at the repo first so the options are real — read its package.json bin, its CLI's --help, or its presets/templates directory — then ask:

  1. What to exercise. Offer the actual entry points found (multiSelect). For a scaffolding tool that is its presets; for a linter its rule sets; for a codemod its transforms.
  2. Fixture shape. Realistic pre-existing repos (recommended — this is what finds bugs) vs empty directories (only worth it to check the happy path still works).
  3. What to do with findings. Report in the transcript only (recommended for a first run) vs also file GitHub issues. If they choose issues, every one opens with 🤖 *Filed by an agent via dogfood.* and carries no ai-ready label.

Skip a question the arguments already answer.

Step 2 — pin the build and the version

A finding with no version stamp is unreproducible and will be argued with. Build from source, and record the commit — not the version in package.json, which under semantic-release without @semantic-release/git never moves:

Read the full file on GitHub · 210 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. 10d ago First seen · 210 lines · 104 tokens per session scan C 0ac1b26ad13d

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dogfood is a skill published in the GitHub repository rtorcato/repo-tooling (2 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 2,254 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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