DCI Dogfooding

Overview

Verify code changes to the DCI swarm by exercising them through the live system. You test through the API and CLI, never by reading source code or running unit tests. The running swarm is the source of truth.

Core principle: If you didn't exercise it through the live API, you didn't verify it.

When to Use

• After implementing backend/frontend changes to the DCI swarm
• After fixing bugs in the swarm
• When the user says "dogfood this" or "verify through the swarm"
• Before committing changes, to catch runtime issues unit tests miss

When NOT to use:

• For unit test verification (use pytest directly)
• For TypeScript type checking (use tsc)
• For code review (use code-review skill)