# ce-dogfood

This skill tests the active branch’s changes in a real browser, fixes small breakages, and records the results. Run it to check changed user flows before merging.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 821 installs · ★ 25714
- Author: EveryInc
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin/tree/HEAD/skills/ce-dogfood/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/ce-dogfood

## What it does

ce-dogfood compares the active branch with trunk, maps the affected user flows, and exercises them in a real browser. Its scope is the branch diff, not the whole application. It judges each flow for correctness and against product personas, then can fix small, clear breakages with regression tests and commits.

You need a local development server and the `agent-browser` CLI. The skill uses that CLI alone to control the browser and reads `references/phases.md` before starting. It writes a report from the supplied template under `dogfood-reports/` and runs the project’s automated test suite once. A failed suite means the final verdict is not ready, even if the browser scenarios pass.

Invocation is manual. The skill won’t switch the primary checkout without confirmation when uncommitted changes could be disturbed. Architectural choices and product changes with competing solutions are left for a human to decide, rather than being made just to pass a scenario.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin --skill ce-dogfood -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/ce-dogfood/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/ce-dogfood/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin --skill ce-dogfood -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/ce-dogfood/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin --skill ce-dogfood -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/ce-dogfood/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin ce-dogfood
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/ce-dogfood/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin --skill ce-dogfood -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin --path skills/ce-dogfood
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/ce-dogfood/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin --skill ce-dogfood -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin/tree/HEAD/skills/ce-dogfood/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- exercise browser flows affected by a branch diff
- spot small breakages in user-facing changes
- verify a fix with a regression test
- record scenario results in a dogfood report

## Example prompts
- Run `/ce-dogfood` to test the current branch.
- Check the changes in PR 42 with `/ce-dogfood 42`.
- Test `feature/login` using the local server: `/ce-dogfood feature/login --port 3000`.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: ce-dogfood
description: "Hands-off, diff-scoped browser QA of the active branch: maps user flows, drives a real browser, autonomously fixes small breakages with regression tests and commits, judges experience against product personas, and writes a durable dogfood report. Manual invocation only."
disable-model-invocation: true
argument-hint: "[PR number, branch name, or blank for current branch] [--port PORT]"
---

# Dogfood

Act as a QA engineer who dogfoods the **active branch** end-to-end, autonomously, until it is genuinely ready.

**Outcome:** every user-visible change this branch introduced has been driven in a real browser along its whole journey, judged for correctness and for how it feels to the product's personas, with small breakages fixed, regression-tested, and committed. **Done:** every matrix scenario is `Pass`, `Fixed`, `Skipped`, or in a terminal `Blocked` state; the project's automated suite has been run once and its result recorded; and the report at `<root>/dogfood-reports/<YYYY-MM-DD>-<branch-slug>-dogfood.md` is finalized against its template and committed. A green matrix over a red suite finalizes as a not-ready verdict rather than a ready one. Chasing that suite green is not this run's job.

This is **diff-scoped**, not whole-app exploration. You test what *this branch* introduced or modified versus the trunk.

**Read `references/phases.md` before Phase 0 (Scope) and follow it.** It defines every phase in detail; the run cannot be executed correctly from the phase list below.

## Boundaries

- Drive the browser exclusively through the `agent-browser` CLI — never Chrome MCP tools (`mcp__claude-in-chrome__*`), another browser MCP, or a built-in browser-control tool, even when the platform offers one. Use the direct binary, never `npx agent-browser` (the direct binary uses the fast Rust client).
- Never dogfood the trunk on a branch-name or blank target — there is no diff. A PR target always has a base, so it is always diffable even when its head branch is named `main`.
- A numeric target stays a PR identity through isolation and checkout — never collapse it to its head ref, whose name may itself be `main`.
- Never switch the primary checkout out from under the user. This skill decides only whether to offer isolation — no for a blank or current-branch target (you are already on it), yes for a PR or another named ref — and `ce-worktree` handles the mechanics and reports the verdict. On a declined offer, check the target out in place, confirming first if uncommitted changes would be disturbed.
- Screenshots and other transient artifacts go to OS temp (`mktemp -d "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/ce-dogfood-XXXXXX"`), never the repo root; copy one in only to embed it in the report.
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