compound-engineering-plugin

Explore vague or ambitious ideas into a right-sized requirements-only unified plan. Use when the user wants to brainstorm or scope what to build. Not for executing already-specified work. Use ce-pov for a verdict on adopting a named external technology.

Review a named diff or PR for bugs, regressions, tests, and standards. Use when asked to review code or when a shipping skill needs a review receipt. Use when asked to apply this review's findings locally. Use ce-resolve-pr-feedback for feedback already left on a PR.

Create structured plans for multi-step work, including software and non-software tasks. Use when asked to plan, break down implementation, plan from requirements, or deepen an existing plan; prefer ce-brainstorm for exploratory framing.

Document a solved problem as a durable repo learning. Use when verified work produced non-obvious reasoning absent from its final code, tests, or existing docs; avoid routine fixes whose artifacts already explain the lesson.

Review requirements, plans, or specs with role-specific lenses. Use when the user wants to improve an existing planning document.

Execute a plan or concrete work prompt end-to-end. Use when implementing from a plan document, a spec path, or a clear build request; use ce-debug for open-ended bugs. Use when an outer orchestrator needs implementation and local verification only, without the shipping tail.

Take a request all the way to done, hands-off, through the right Compound Engineering skills. A code change ends as an open pull request, pushed without stopping. Use only when the user explicitly asks for autonomous end-to-end work or invokes lfg directly. Use ce-plan, ce-work, ce-debug, or ce-commit-push-pr for work the user reviews step by step.

Diagnosis loop for bugs and failing behavior. Use when asked to debug or fix failing or slow behavior.

Simplify code for clarity, reuse, quality, and efficiency while preserving behavior, and prune tests and comments that carry no value. Use after implementation and before review, or to audit tests or comments in any part of a repo; use ce-debug for bugs.

Generate and evaluate grounded ideas. Use when the user wants ideas, improvements, or surprising directions before choosing one to develop. Not for refining an idea they already have (ce-brainstorm) or judging one already on the table (ce-pov).

Create a git commit with a clear, value-communicating message. Use when the user asks to commit/save staged or unstaged changes with a repo-appropriate message.

Check Compound Engineering health and repo-local config, or scaffold a Compound Pack with pack: .

Commit, push, and open a PR. Use when asked to ship/open a PR, or for PR-description-only flows like writing, rewriting, or describing a PR body.

Refresh the repo's captured learnings against the current codebase. Use when auditing stale, overlapping, superseded, or drifted learnings; avoid general refactor, debugging, or code review unless the learnings store is explicit.

Optimize a named target with a measured loop: attribute a workload's cost, or score variants and keep winners. Use when a working system's metric should move and the winning change is not already known. Use ce-debug when the job is diagnosis; use ce-work when the change is already known.

Judge PR feedback centrally, apply valid fixes, and complete review conversations with publication verified. Use when addressing feedback already left on a PR, preparing local fixes for a caller to publish, or completing a saved feedback batch. Use ce-code-review for reviewing code before feedback exists.

Set up isolated git worktrees — create a new branch for fresh work, or attach a worktree to an existing branch, PR, or commit. Use when starting isolated work or isolating an existing ref.

Run browser tests for pages affected by the current branch or PR. Use when asked to run or check browser tests for the current change.

Publish, read, comment on, or edit markdown in Proof. Use for Proof links, sharing specs/plans/drafts, or publish handoffs from planning workflows; avoid proofread, math, evidence, or proof-of-concept meanings.

Create or update STRATEGY.md. Use when starting a product, adding a strategy doc, or changing direction or roadmap.

Test iOS apps in a simulator with XcodeBuildMCP. Use when iOS changes need simulator evidence before handoff.

Generate time-windowed product pulse reports from configured signals.

Analyze recorded product feedback into evidence for bugs and requirements. Use when a Riffrec capture or other screen, voice, or notes artifact needs interpretation. Use for Riffrec setup, capture, or sharing help when no recording exists yet.

Personalized coding tutorials that build on your existing knowledge and use your actual codebase for examples. Creates a persistent learning trail that compounds over time using the power of AI, spaced repetition and quizes.

Search and ask questions about coding agent session history across Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Use when asking what was worked on, what was tried before, how a problem was investigated across sessions, what happened recently, or any question about past agent sessions. Also use when the user references prior sessions, previous attempts, or past investigations — even without saying 'sessions' explicitly.

Check if the compound-engineering plugin is up to date and recommend the update command if not. Use when the user says "update compound engineering", "check compound engineering version", "ce update", "is compound engineering up to date", "update ce plugin", or reports issues that might stem from a stale compound-engineering plugin version. This skill only works in Claude Code — it relies on the plugin harness cache layout.

[BETA] Execute ce-work with external delegate support.

Search Slack for interpreted organizational context -- decisions, constraints, and discussion arcs -- and produce a synthesized research digest with cross-cutting analysis. Use when the user says 'search slack for', 'what did we discuss about', 'slack context for', or 'what does the team think about'. Differs from slack:find-discussions, which returns raw message results without synthesis.

Build applications where agents are first-class citizens. Use this skill when designing autonomous agents, creating MCP tools, implementing self-modifying systems, or building apps where features are outcomes achieved by agents operating in a loop.

Build web interfaces with genuine design quality, not AI slop. Use for any frontend work - landing pages, web apps, dashboards, admin panels, components, interactive experiences. Activates for both greenfield builds and modifications to existing applications. Detects existing design systems and respects them. Covers composition, typography, color, motion, and copy. Verifies results via screenshots before declaring done.

This skill should be used when writing Ruby and Rails code in DHH's distinctive 37signals style. It applies when writing Ruby code, Rails applications, creating models, controllers, or any Ruby file. Triggers on Ruby/Rails code generation, refactoring requests, code review, or when the user mentions DHH, 37signals, Basecamp, HEY, or Campfire style. Embodies REST purity, fat models, thin controllers, Current attributes, Hotwire patterns, and the "clarity over cleverness" philosophy.

Summarize recent compound-engineering plugin releases, or answer a specific question about a past release with a version citation. Use when the user types /ce-release-notes or asks "what changed in compound-engineering recently?" or "what happened to ?".

Clean up local branches whose remote tracking branch is gone. Use when the user says "clean up branches", "delete gone branches", "prune local branches", "clean gone", or wants to remove stale local branches that no longer exist on the remote. Also handles removing associated worktrees for branches that have them.

This skill should be used when generating and editing images using the Gemini API (Nano Banana Pro). It applies when creating images from text prompts, editing existing images, applying style transfers, generating logos with text, creating stickers, product mockups, or any image generation/manipulation task. Supports text-to-image, image editing, multi-turn refinement, and composition from multiple reference images.

Run comprehensive agent-native architecture review with scored principles

Report a bug in the compound-engineering plugin

Capture solved problems as categorized documentation with YAML frontmatter for fast lookup

Polish a working feature through user-directed live browser feedback. Use when a functional feature needs focused UX refinement before shipping.

Draft launch or promotion copy for a shipped feature.

[BETA] Start the dev server, open the feature in a browser, and iterate on improvements together.

Judge a supplied subject against the project's evidence and constraints. Use when assessing an external-adoption question, a holistic take on a document, or a supplied approach set. Use for an oracle panel to consult other models and reconcile their opinions. Use ce-explain for understanding and ce-doc-review for findings review.

Explain how and why something has its current shape, or what happened over a window of work, grounded in evidence. Use when the user asks for an explanation. Use ce-pov for a judgment or recommendation.

Babysits an open GitHub PR until merge-ready. Use when asked to watch a PR over time — not for one-shot comment resolution or one CI failure. GitHub (incl. Enterprise) only.

Hands-off, diff-scoped browser QA of the active branch: maps user flows, drives a real browser, autonomously fixes small breakages with regression tests and commits, judges experience against product personas, and writes a durable dogfood report. Manual invocation only.

Sweep configured feedback sources (Slack, GitHub Issues; email experimental) for new items: acknowledge at source, analyze recordings, verify fixes merged to main, and emit an lfg-ready plan. First run sets up sources; supports mode:non-interactive for scheduled runs.

This skill should be used when writing Ruby and Rails code in DHH's distinctive 37signals style. It applies when writing Ruby code, Rails applications, creating models, controllers, or any Ruby file. Triggers on Ruby/Rails code generation, refactoring requests, code review, or when the user mentions DHH, 37signals, Basecamp, HEY, or Campfire style. Embodies REST purity, fat models, thin controllers, Current attributes, Hotwire patterns, and the "clarity over cleverness" philosophy.

Create a session handoff for another agent, or resume, find, and read any user-selected continuity source. Use when work or conversation must continue without access to the current session history.

Build web interfaces with genuine design quality, not AI slop. Use for any frontend work - landing pages, web apps, dashboards, admin panels, components, interactive experiences. Activates for both greenfield builds and modifications to existing applications. Detects existing design systems and respects them. Covers composition, typography, color, motion, and copy. Verifies results via screenshots before declaring done.

This skill manages Git worktrees for isolated parallel development. It handles creating, listing, switching, and cleaning up worktrees with a simple interactive interface, following KISS principles.

This skill should be used when generating and editing images using the Gemini API (Nano Banana Pro). It applies when creating images from text prompts, editing existing images, applying style transfers, generating logos with text, creating stickers, product mockups, or any image generation/manipulation task. Supports text-to-image, image editing, multi-turn refinement, and composition from multiple reference images.