compound-engineering

compound-engineering is a plugin for Claude Code from davekilleen/Dex. Its manifest loads nothing; the 17 skills, 19 commands it bundles cost 1,226 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, MIT.

A plugin containing 28 agents, 24 commands, 15 skills, and one MCP server for code review, research, design, and workflow automation. MCP is a way for an agent to use connected tools and services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for code review, technical research, design work, and engineering workflow automation.
Why use it?
It brings several development aids together for reviewing code, researching problems, designing solutions, and automating parts of a workflow.

Plugin for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it for code review, technical research, design work, and engineering workflow automation.

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Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add davekilleen/Dex
/plugin install compound-engineering
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davekilleen/Dex

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 17 skills, 19 commands cost 1,226 tokens a session between them.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

compound-engineering scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.claude/plugins/compound-engineering/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 34 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "compound-engineering",
  "version": "2.28.0",
  "description": "AI-powered development tools. 28 agents, 24 commands, 15 skills, 1 MCP server for code review, research, design, and workflow automation.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Kieran Klaassen",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "url": "https://github.com/kieranklaassen"
  },
  "homepage": "https://every.to/source-code/my-ai-had-already-fixed-the-code-before-i-saw-it",
  "repository": "https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "ai-powered",
    "compound-engineering",
    "workflow-automation",
    "code-review",
    "rails",
    "ruby",
    "python",
    "typescript",
    "knowledge-management",
    "image-generation",
    "agent-browser",
    "browser-automation"
  ],
  "mcpServers": {
    "context7": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.context7.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 34 lines scan A 3fc650aa791b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

compound-engineering is a plugin published in the GitHub repository davekilleen/Dex (495 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.