compound-engineering-plugin

An agent-only skill not intended for direct user invocation

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.

Develop independent competing solutions to a defined brief, compare them, and synthesize a winning approach. Use when choosing well requires developing alternatives beyond their current form. Use ce-pov to judge developed material and ce-ideate to discover opportunities.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 Use when auditing stale, overlapping, superseded, or drifted learnings; avoid general refactor, debugging, or code review unless the learnings store is explicit.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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).

Rewrite, check, or draft prose so it carries no AI writing tells, reads plainly on the first read, and keeps every source fact. Use when asked to make writing plainer or free of those tells, to check writing for them, or when drafting from supplied content. Use ce-promote for channel-specific marketing copy.

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.

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.

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

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.