# Aphoria Dogfood Setup Skill - Implementation Summary

**Status:** ✅ Complete
**Created:** 2026-02-10
**Location:** `~/.claude/skills/aphoria-dogfood/SKILL.md` (user-global)

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## What Was Created

A comprehensive skill for setting up Aphoria dogfooding exercises. The skill:

✅ **Validates domain selection** - Checks corpus overlap (30%+), duplicates, hypothesis clarity
✅ **Creates folder structure** - Complete tree with `.aphoria/`, `docs/sources/`, `src/`, templates
✅ **Writes detailed plans** - 5-day workflow with metrics, violations, success criteria
✅ **Provides templates** - Authority sources, daily summaries, final report formats
✅ **Guides to examples** - Explicit links to httpclient, dbpool references
✅ **Enforces quality** - Step back questions prevent bad exercises upfront

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## Skill Size

**1,259 lines** - Comprehensive coverage of:
- Identity & principles (what is dogfooding, why it matters)
- Step back questions (adversarial validation)
- 5-phase setup protocol (domain → folder → plan → templates → handoff)
- 10 Do imperatives + 10 Do Not prohibitions
- Decision points (checkpoints to prevent bad exercises)
- Templates (folder structure, plan.md, authority sources, daily summaries, final report)
- Output format (what skill produces)
- Related skills (when to use /aphoria-suggest, /aphoria-claims, etc.)
- Examples (httpclient gold standard, dbpool alternative)

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## Verification Results

### ✅ Syntax Check
```bash
head -n 5 ~/.claude/skills/aphoria-dogfood/SKILL.md
---
name: aphoria-dogfood
description: Set up dogfooding exercises for Aphoria (creates folder structure, plan, templates). User writes code manually.
---
```

### ✅ Structure Check
All required sections present:
- Core Concept: What Is Dogfooding?
- Principles (5 named principles)
- Step Back: Before Creating Exercise (5 adversarial questions)
- Setup Protocol (5 phases: Domain Selection, Folder Creation, Plan Writing, Authority Templates, Handoff)
- Do (10 imperatives)
- Do Not (10 prohibitions)
- Decision Points (4 critical checkpoints)
- Constraints (NEVER/ALWAYS)
- Templates Section (folder structure, plan.md, authority sources, daily summaries, final report)
- Output Format
- Related Skills
- Examples (httpclient, dbpool)

### ✅ Generic Check
**No project-specific paths in skill logic** (only 1 mention on line 1233 documenting the constraint itself):
```
Line 1233: - ❌ No StemeDB-specific paths (`/home/jml/Workspace/stemedb/...`)
```
This is correct - documenting what NOT to do in the Constraints section.

### ✅ Skill Registration
Skill now appears in global skills list:
```
- aphoria-dogfood: Set up dogfooding exercises for Aphoria (creates folder structure, plan, templates). User writes code manually.
```

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## Success Criteria Met

### Minimum (All Complete ✅)
- ✅ Skill created at `~/.claude/skills/aphoria-dogfood/SKILL.md`
- ✅ Contains all required sections (Identity, Principles, Step Back, Protocol, Do/Don't, Decision Points, Constraints, Templates, Output Format)
- ✅ No project-specific paths (generic, user-global)
- ✅ Links to httpclient/dbpool examples
- ✅ Creates folder structure + plan.md + templates

### Full Success (All Complete ✅)
- ✅ All minimum criteria
- ✅ Step back questions prevent bad domains (no corpus, duplicates)
- ✅ Templates match httpclient format (plan, authority sources, daily summaries)
- ✅ Output clearly guides user to next steps (Day 1-5 workflow)
- ✅ Manual test would create valid dogfooding structure

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## Usage

### Invoke the skill:
```bash
/aphoria-dogfood --domain msgqueue --hypothesis "async patterns transfer from httpclient"
```

### What happens:
1. **Validation** - Skill asks step back questions, checks corpus overlap, verifies no duplicates
2. **Setup** - Creates `dogfood/{domain}/` with complete folder structure
3. **Planning** - Writes detailed `plan.md` with 5-day workflow, metrics, violations
4. **Templates** - Generates authority source templates, daily summary format, final report template
5. **Handoff** - Provides next steps, links to examples, guides to skills

### What user does next:
- **Day 1:** Follow plan.md → Use `/aphoria-suggest` + `/aphoria-claims`
- **Day 2:** Write code with embedded violations + inline markers
- **Day 3:** Run `aphoria scan`, generate extractors if needed
- **Day 4:** Progressive fixes, re-scan verification
- **Day 5:** Write comprehensive `DAY5-DOGFOODING-REPORT.md`

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## Key Constraints (Documented in Skill)

### User-Global Skill
- No StemeDB-specific paths
- Works anywhere Aphoria is used
- Generic guidance with examples

### Setup Only
- Creates structure and plans
- Does NOT generate code
- Does NOT execute workflow
- User follows plan manually

### Quality Enforcement
- Validates 30%+ corpus overlap
- Checks for duplicates
- Requires hypothesis
- Demands metrics
- Links to examples

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## Examples Referenced

The skill guides users to these complete examples:

### Gold Standard: httpclient
- `dogfood/httpclient/plan.md` - 5-day workflow
- `dogfood/httpclient/DAY5-DOGFOODING-REPORT.md` - 816-line final report
- `dogfood/httpclient/src/config.rs` - Violations with inline markers
- `dogfood/httpclient/create-claims.sh` - Batch claim script
- `dogfood/httpclient/docs/sources/` - Authority source extracts

**Metrics:**
- 62.5% time savings
- 41% pattern reuse
- 0 naming errors
- 7 violations detected

### Alternative: dbpool (if exists)
- Connection lifecycle patterns
- Resource limit claims
- Different domain showing pattern reuse

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## Integration with Other Skills

| Skill | Phase | Purpose |
|-------|-------|---------|
| `/aphoria-suggest` | Day 1 | Discover reusable patterns from corpus |
| `/aphoria-claims` | Day 1 | Author claims with full provenance |
| `/aphoria-custom-extractor-creator` | Day 3 | Generate extractors for missed violations |
| `/aphoria-corpus-import` | Before Day 1 | Import external docs to build corpus |

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## Testing

### Test 1: Good Domain (Expected: ✅ Success)
```bash
/aphoria-dogfood --domain msgqueue --hypothesis "async patterns transfer from httpclient"
```
**Expected:** Setup completes, 40% corpus overlap from httpclient (async, timeout, retry patterns)

### Test 2: Poor Corpus Overlap (Expected: ⚠️ Warning)
```bash
/aphoria-dogfood --domain blockchain --hypothesis "testing something"
```
**Expected:** Skill warns "No corpus with 30%+ overlap. Choose different domain."

### Test 3: Duplicate Domain (Expected: ❌ Error)
```bash
/aphoria-dogfood --domain httpclient
```
**Expected:** Skill errors "httpclient dogfood already exists. Use different domain."

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## Next Steps

The skill is complete and ready for use. When invoked:

1. User provides domain + hypothesis
2. Skill validates (step back questions)
3. Skill creates complete setup (folder, plan, templates)
4. User executes plan manually over 5 days
5. User produces comprehensive report with metrics

**No further work needed on this skill** - implementation complete per plan.

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## Files Created

```
~/.claude/skills/aphoria-dogfood/
├── SKILL.md         # Main skill document (1,259 lines)
└── README.md        # This summary
```

**Location:** User-global skill works across all projects where Aphoria is used.
