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@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ A fleet is agents. Dozens of them, coding, deploying, posting and fixing at the
 - Everything ships with a TUI, a CLI, an MCP and an API.
 - We *are* the moat.
 - We work in our dad's workshop, not our mom's basement.
+- We eat our own dogfood.
 
 ## Notes
 
@@ -38,6 +39,8 @@ A fleet is agents. Dozens of them, coding, deploying, posting and fixing at the
 
 **We work in our dad's workshop, not our mom's basement.** A workshop has a bench, real tools, a floor that gets swept and things that leave it finished. A basement has a couch. The fleet is here to ship, and the sysop keeps the shop.
 
+**We eat our own dogfood.** Every tool the fleet ships is a tool the fleet runs on. This site went to prod through the same CLIs, vaults and agents we hand to everyone else. If it is not good enough for us in prod, it is not good enough to ship, and we find out first.
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 ## The sysop
 
 One person. A fleet of agents. Call it fleet coding if you like; the job is not to write the code. The job is to run the fleet: pick the work, read what came back, kill what went wrong, merge what did not. Everything above exists so one sysop can run many agents and still know what the fleet did.