Turns the messy context sitting in your head right after fixing a bug into searchable docs before you lose the thread. Runs parallel subagents to extract what you just did, cross-reference it against existing solutions, and write it to `docs/solutions/` with proper YAML frontmatter. The name comes from knowledge compounding: first time solving something costs hours, but document it and the next person (or you in three months) spends minutes. Supports both interactive and headless modes, so you can wire it into CI or post-merge hooks. Also maintains CONCEPTS.md as a side effect when domain terms surface, though bootstrapping that from scratch gets handed off to a separate refresh skill.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin --skill ce-compound --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

/ce-compound

Choosing the job

This skill does one of two jobs. Capture holds the lesson of one solved problem. Refresh audits the existing learnings against the current codebase and can delete docs and open a PR.

Run refresh when the arguments contain mode:refresh, or when an interactive run was invoked to do one, as in /ce-compound refresh payments, "clean up the learnings", or a standalone request to create CONCEPTS.md. An earlier remark in the session does not count. Read references/refresh/overview.md and follow it instead of the rest of this file. The refresh references name the parts of this file they reuse.

When an interactive run is asked to create or update the project's coding standards or review docs as a whole, invoke the ce-setup skill with standards and stop.

Otherwise run capture. A non-interactive run without mode:refresh is always capture, whatever its context says. Capture takes free-text context, so refresh token rotation after fixing that bug is a capture. If an interactive run's words could mean either job, ask once with the host's blocking question tool, and capture if there is no answer.

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github.com/everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin
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Jun 3, 2026

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