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Compound Engineering Help

Guides you through Compound Engineering: picks the right next command and explains setup, cost, and troubleshooting.

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Repository
EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin
Stars
25,850
Licence
MIT
Files
6 files

What it does

This skill turns the agent into a guide for Compound Engineering, a toolkit of many agent skills that work through a repeatable loop: brainstorm, plan, work, simplify, review, and capture learnings. When you ask which skill fits, what comes next, or why something misbehaved, the agent checks your project state (branch, uncommitted changes, open pull request, recent plans) and recommends the next command, explaining why, without starting the work itself. It is an orientation assistant rather than a builder.

Great for

  • Developers new to Compound Engineering who want to know which skill to run next
  • Teams setting up CE configuration, cost expectations, or upgrades
  • Users troubleshooting why a CE skill behaved unexpectedly

Skip it if

  • Users who want the actual coding work done: this skill only recommends commands and does not change files, so it will not complete the task itself
  • Anyone expecting answers from current docs alone: it is designed to fetch public guide pages, which requires network access, and it warns that its recall of CE may be outdated

Try asking

  • “/ce-help which skill should I use to review my pull request?”
  • “/ce-help what comes after I finish a plan for this feature?”
  • “/ce-help how do I set up Compound Engineering in a new repo and what will it cost?”
  • “/ce-help why did my last ce-work run do something unexpected?”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Compound Engineering HelpInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 6 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    ce-help.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip ce-help.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip ce-help.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Ask a specific question such as 'what comes next' so the routing table sends the agent to the right reference
  • Check that your copy of CE is current before following guide pages, since they track the main branch and may describe newer features
  • Remember that running recommended CE skills may dispatch several agents or call other model providers, which costs money

What's inside

  • agents/openai.yaml
  • references/skill-map.md
  • references/starting-and-running.md
  • references/troubleshooting.md
  • references/workflow.md
  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-11-02. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.