compound-engineering

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

Learn more

• Full component reference - all agents, commands, skills
• Compound engineering: how Every codes with agents
• The story behind compounding engineering

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.

Getting started

After installing, run /ce-setup in any project. It checks your environment, installs missing tools (agent-browser, gh, jq, vhs, silicon, ffmpeg), and bootstraps project config.

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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