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Dogfooding Program

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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.
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From the source SKILL.md

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.

What this skill does

Dogfooding Program is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/dogfooding-program/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when a pre-release product needs real internal use to surface bugs and adoption risk before it ships to customers.

Who uses this skill

The Dogfooding Program Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 174,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/dogfooding-program
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/dogfooding-program/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/dogfooding-program/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/dogfooding-program/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/dogfooding-program/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\dogfooding-program\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Dogfooding Program Claude Code skill?
Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/dogfooding-program/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.
What does the Dogfooding Program skill do?
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.
Is this skill free to install?
Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.
When should I use the Dogfooding Program skill?
Use Dogfooding Program when your Claude Code task falls under the General category — specifically in the general misc area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Dogfooding Program" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/general/.
What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Dogfooding Program skill fit in?
A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Dogfooding Program is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

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Amey-Thakur. (2026). Dogfooding Program [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/dogfooding-program/
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@misc{dogfooding-program-2026,
  author    = {Amey-Thakur},
  title     = {Dogfooding Program [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/dogfooding-program/}
}

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