It expires in weeks, not years
A prompt that worked in January behaves differently in July. The model changed underneath it and nobody told you.
How it works
Verification, made honest and hard to game.
Doestep answers one question: does this still work, on this model, right now? It answers that with evidence anyone can audit. First, why that question needs asking.
Not yet verified on Sonnet 5a newer model shipped · needs a re-run
One object carries the whole story: a fact, computed from real runs.
The problem
AI knowledge rots, and nobody tells you when.
Nothing is reproducible
“I built an agent that 10x’d my workflow.” Great. Can anyone else run it and get the same result? Usually not.
Everyone claims, no one proves
The internet is full of AI skills nobody can verify. Claims are cheap. A logged reproduction is not.
The loop, step by step
A playbook gets proven, a new model breaks it, the community proves it again. The model-release event is the heartbeat.
- 01
Publish a playbook
An author writes a testable playbook and freezes it as an immutable version.
- 02
Doesteppers run it
Other people actually run it, on a real model, with real inputs.
- 03
Reports roll in
Each run is an append-only repro report: worked, worked-with-changes, or broke.
- 04
The badge goes live
Confidence is computed from distinct reports, never written by hand.
- 05
A new model ships
The model registry gets a new row. This is the heartbeat.
- 06
Badges flip
Every affected playbook flips to “not yet verified on the latest model.”
- 07
The community re-verifies
Doesteppers race to re-run the top playbooks. The loop repeats.
The five things it’s built on
Every part exists to keep verification un-gameable.
Playbook
immutable versionsEvery version is frozen. A report is meaningless unless it’s pinned to the exact version that was run, so editing in place is impossible by design. Versioning isn’t a feature; it’s what makes verification trustworthy.
Model registry
the heartbeatModels, versions, and release dates. Adding a row, a new model release, is what flips affected playbooks to “not yet verified on the latest.” Freshness is relative to models, not the calendar.
Repro report
append-onlyEvery run is an event: who ran it, which version, which model, and the result. Never edited, never deleted. Corrections are new reports. Append-only means every badge is auditable back to its evidence.
Badge
computed, never storedDerived from reports, the model registry, and time decay. Recomputed on every new report, on model release, and nightly. A stored badge could drift from its evidence. Derived state can’t lie.
Reputation
earned by doingA Doestepper’s standing is computed from their report history with a weighted function. Gameable only by doing real work, and re-tunable later with no data migration.
The badge, up close
A badge that speaks in facts.
This is something no tutorial site, GitHub repo, or Discord has. Here’s what each part of it says.
- The result
- Worked, broke, or mixed: a status color and a glyph, never color alone.
- The model
- The exact model version it was run on. Freshness is relative to models, not the calendar.
- The freshness
- Recomputed on every report, on model release, and nightly. It decays on its own.
- The reports
- How many distinct Doesteppers proved it: the evidence behind the badge.
The states
VerifiedSonnet 5 · 3 days ago · 14 reportsNot yet verified on Sonnet 5a newer model shipped · needs a re-runMixed: see reportsSonnet 5 · 3 days ago · 9 worked / 2 with changes / 3 brokeBroke on step 4Sonnet 5 · 3 days ago · 1 worked / 4 brokeNot yet verifiedno reports on Sonnet 5 yet
Same object everywhere: on the site, in a README, in a tweet. Mono for the data, status color for the fact.
The trust rules
Built in from day one, because honesty is the brand.
- Authors can’t verify their own playbooks.
- A badge goes green only when weighted confidence from distinct users, with no follow relationship to the author, crosses a threshold.
- Conflicting reports show “Mixed: see reports,” never hidden.
- New accounts can report, but their weight stays low until they build history.
Ready to prove something?
Join the first Doesteppers and be there when the next model ships.