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AI Skills & Agents That Make Each Unit of Engineering Work Easier

Official Compound Engineering plugin for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and more

Transform how you develop with AI-powered workflows that compound knowledge, reduce technical debt, and make every subsequent task easier than the last.

Philosophy

"Each unit of engineering work should make subsequent units easier -- not harder."

Traditional development accumulates technical debt. Every feature adds complexity. Every bug fix leaves behind local knowledge that someone has to rediscover later. The codebase gets larger, the context gets harder to hold, and the next change becomes slower.

Compound engineering inverts this. 80% is in planning and review, 20% is in execution:

Plan Thoroughly

Use /ce-brainstorm and /ce-plan to think through features before writing code

Review Smart

Catch issues and calibrate judgment with /ce-code-review and /ce-doc-review

Codify Knowledge

Document learnings with /ce-compound so they're reusable

Maintain Quality

Keep quality high so future changes are easy

Workflow

The core loop: brainstorm requirements, plan implementation, work through the plan, review the result, compound learning, then repeat with better context.

Skill Purpose
/ce-strategy Create or maintain STRATEGY.md -- the product's target problem, approach, persona, key metrics, and tracks. Read as grounding by ideate, brainstorm, and plan
/ce-ideate Optional big-picture ideation: generate and critically evaluate grounded ideas, then route the strongest one into brainstorming
/ce-brainstorm Interactive Q&A to think through a feature or problem and write a right-sized requirements doc before planning
/ce-plan Turn feature ideas into detailed implementation plans
/ce-work Execute plans with worktrees and task tracking
/ce-debug Systematically reproduce failures, trace root cause, and implement fixes
/ce-code-review Multi-agent code review before merging
/ce-compound Document learnings to make future work easier
/ce-product-pulse Generate a single-page, time-windowed pulse report on usage, performance, errors, and followups. Saves to docs/pulse-reports/

Quick Example

Feature Development Cycle

/ce-brainstorm "make background job retries safer"
/ce-plan docs/brainstorms/background-job-retry-safety-requirements.md
/ce-work
/ce-code-review
/ce-compound

Bug Investigation Cycle

/ce-debug "the checkout webhook sometimes creates duplicate invoices"
/ce-code-review
/ce-compound

Getting Started

After installing, run /ce-setup in any project. It checks your environment, installs missing tools, and bootstraps project config.

Claude Code

/plugin marketplace add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin
/plugin install compound-engineering

Cursor

/add-plugin compound-engineering

Or search for "compound engineering" in the plugin marketplace.

Codex

codex plugin marketplace add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin
bunx @every-env/compound-plugin install compound-engineering --to codex

Then install through Codex's TUI: launch codex, run /plugins, find Compound Engineering, and install.

GitHub Copilot

/plugin marketplace add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin
/plugin install compound-engineering@compound-engineering-plugin

For VS Code Copilot Agent Plugins: Run Chat: Install Plugin from Source and use EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin.