Compound Engineering
A plugin marketplace featuring the Compound Engineering plugin — AI skills and agents that make each unit of engineering work easier than the last.
Philosophy
Each unit of engineering work should make subsequent units easier—not harder.
Traditional development accumulates technical debt. Every feature adds complexity. The codebase becomes harder to work with over time.
Compound engineering inverts this. 80% is in planning and review, 20% is in execution:
- Plan thoroughly before writing code
- Review to catch issues and capture learnings
- Codify knowledge so it's reusable
- Keep quality high so future changes are easy
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Workflow
Brainstorm -> Plan -> Work -> Review -> Compound -> Repeat
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Ideate (optional -- when you need ideas)
| Command | Purpose |
|---|
/ce:ideate | Discover high-impact project improvements through divergent ideation and adversarial filtering |
/ce:brainstorm | Explore requirements and approaches before planning |
/ce:plan | Turn feature ideas into detailed implementation plans |
/ce:work | Execute plans with worktrees and task tracking |
/ce:review | Multi-agent code review before merging |
/ce:compound | Document learnings to make future work easier |
/ce:brainstorm is the main entry point -- it refines ideas into a requirements plan through interactive Q&A, and short-circuits automatically when ceremony isn't needed. /ce:plan takes either a requirements doc from brainstorming or a detailed idea and distills it into a technical plan that agents (or humans) can work from.
/ce:ideate is used less often but can be a force multiplier -- it proactively surfaces strong improvement ideas based on your codebase, with optional steering from you.
Each cycle compounds: brainstorms sharpen plans, plans inform future plans, reviews catch more issues, patterns get documented.
Install
Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin
/plugin install compound-engineering
Cursor
/add-plugin compound-engineering
OpenCode, Codex, Droid, Pi, Gemini, Copilot, Kiro, Windsurf, OpenClaw & Qwen (experimental)
This repo includes a Bun/TypeScript CLI that converts Claude Code plugins to OpenCode, Codex, Factory Droid, Pi, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, Kiro CLI, Windsurf, OpenClaw, and Qwen Code.
# convert the compound-engineering plugin into OpenCode format
bunx @every-env/compound-plugin install compound-engineering --to opencode
# convert to Codex format
bunx @every-env/compound-plugin install compound-engineering --to codex
# convert to Factory Droid format
bunx @every-env/compound-plugin install compound-engineering --to droid
# convert to Pi format
bunx @every-env/compound-plugin install compound-engineering --to pi
# convert to Gemini CLI format
bunx @every-env/compound-plugin install compound-engineering --to gemini
# convert to GitHub Copilot format
bunx @every-env/compound-plugin install compound-engineering --to copilot
# convert to Kiro CLI format
bunx @every-env/compound-plugin install compound-engineering --to kiro
# convert to OpenClaw format
bunx @every-env/compound-plugin install compound-engineering --to openclaw
# convert to Windsurf format (global scope by default)
bunx @every-env/compound-plugin install compound-engineering --to windsurf
# convert to Windsurf workspace scope
bunx @every-env/compound-plugin install compound-engineering --to windsurf --scope workspace
# convert to Qwen Code format
bunx @every-env/compound-plugin install compound-engineering --to qwen
# auto-detect installed tools and install to all
bunx @every-env/compound-plugin install compound-engineering --to all
Output format details per target