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Compound Engineering

Plugin of skills for coding agents that structures work as a loop of brainstorm, plan, work, simplify, review and compound.

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Published 11 Oct 2026Listing updated 12 Oct 2026

At a glance

Purpose: Plugin of skills for coding agents that structures work as a loop of brainstorm, plan, work, simplify, review and compound.
Runs in: Local agent with shell
Operating systems: Not stated
Needs: Runtime: Not stated; Needs internet: Yes; Needs accounts or API keys beyond your agent: Not stated
Files and data: Reads files: Yes; Writes files: Yes; Sends data to other services: Yes
Tool type: Skill
Delivery: From GitHub
Version: Latest on the main branch
Access: Code on GitHub
Compatibility: According to the README, the plugin runs on Claude Code, Cursor and Codex (the app and the CLI). It also lists Kimi Code CLI, Cline, Grok Build CLI, Grok Bot through a Cursor account, Devin CLI, GitHub Copilot, Factory Droid, Qwen Code, OpenCode, Pi, oh-my-pi and Antigravity CLI, each with its own install steps.
External costs: The repository is MIT-licensed and states no pricing. Your coding agent or model provider may charge for usage.
Permissions: The skills act through your coding agent with the access you give it. The README describes global and project-level installation routes, OpenCode configuration edits and home-directory configuration for Grok. The README says Grok Bot uses your Cursor account and plugin library. The README gives an omp setting to enable automatic plugin updates. The README says ce-setup creates .compound-engineering/config.yaml when missing, refreshes a committed example and gitignores an existing local override. The README says ce-compound writes learning under docs/solutions/ by default. The README describes cross-model author and independent-model opinion workflows. The README says lfg edits code, applies review fixes, runs its browser-test step and commits; with a remote, the README says it pushes, opens a pull request and watches CI with bounded repairs. The README says merging requires a grant and describes ce-code-review as report-only unless local application is explicitly requested.
Usage terms: MIT License, as stated in the repository. See its LICENSE file for the exact terms.

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EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin

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

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What it does

Compound Engineering is a plugin of skills for coding agents. The README describes a loop of brainstorming requirements, planning implementation, working through the plan, simplifying code, reviewing the result and capturing learning.

The README names ce-brainstorm, ce-plan, ce-work, ce-simplify-code, ce-code-review and ce-compound as the core loop. The README says ce-compound writes learning to docs/solutions/ by default and later brainstorming and planning use it as grounding. The README also lists debugging, strategy, Git workflows, handoffs, its ce-test-browser and ce-test-xcode features, and the lfg autonomous pipeline.

The README gives host-specific invocation forms: /skill-name examples for slash-skill hosts, $skill-name for Codex, and /skill:<name> for manual-only or hidden skills in oh-my-pi.

Who it is for

Developers who use AI coding agents and want a repeatable loop for requirements, plans, implementation, review and written notes.

Example tasks

The README describes ce-brainstorm for writing requirements and ce-plan for implementation planning.
The README says ce-work executes implementation-ready plans and ce-code-review provides report-only multi-agent review against the plan. The README describes ce-compound for capturing learning into docs/solutions/ and ce-debug for starting from a bug report.

Getting started

In Claude Code, the README gives the slash commands /plugin marketplace add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin followed by /plugin install compound-engineering. In Cursor Agent chat it gives /add-plugin compound-engineering. For the Codex CLI it gives codex plugin marketplace add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin and codex plugin add compound-engineering@compound-engineering-plugin, then a restart of Codex. After installing, it suggests running ce-setup in a project. Other hosts have their own steps. The README has the exact commands.

Limitations

The README gives separate installation and invocation steps for each agent host. The README says Pi workflows that dispatch subagents require pi-subagents. The README labels Compound Packs experimental. The README says Devin does not map some Claude-style allowed-tools names, so affected actions request permission. The README says lfg can finish with unresolved leftovers when its repair budget is reached. The README says Bun is needed for repository development and converter maintenance, not normal installation. The README warns that existing installations need a marketplace refresh before updating, and that the omp npm-style install path has no update mechanism. The repository can change at any time; check its README before you install.

Data practices

The README points to PRIVACY.md for data handling and to SECURITY.md for reporting. It says that with ce-pov, the phrase "oracle this" adds independent model opinions, and that ce-work can run through a qualified cross-model author. What your agent sends to its model provider depends on your coding agent and model provider.