Compound Engineering is a plugin that organizes software work into brainstorming, planning, implementation, review, and recording lessons for future changes. It is used with AI coding agents including Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex, and the catalogue entries provide parts of its agent, skill, command, and hook workflow.
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.
npx skills add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin --skill ce-commitgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-pluginWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin/ce-commit)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin/ce-commit"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin/ce-commit/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin/ce-commit"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin/ce-commit.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk pass
- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00038 | $0.01231 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00492 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00246 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00123 |
Grade A, and why
ce-commit 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 11d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Git Commit
Create well-crafted local commit(s) from the current working tree. No push, no PR — use ce-commit-push-pr for the full ship flow.
Done when: each logical change is committed with an explicit file list and a message that states the outcome, and git status is clean of those changes. Stop when: the tree is clean (nothing to commit).
Context
Gather context with each command as its own shell tool call (program + args only). Do not join with ;, &&, ||, pipes, $(...), or redirects — that syntax fails under Windows PowerShell. A non-zero exit is a normal state to interpret, not a failure to suppress.
| Command | Purpose | Non-zero / empty means |
|---|---|---|
git status |
Working-tree state | Not a git repo — stop |
git diff HEAD |
Uncommitted changes | Unborn repo / no commits yet |
git branch --show-current |
Current branch | Empty = detached HEAD |
git log --oneline -10 |
Recent message style | Unborn repo — no history |
git rev-parse --abbrev-ref origin/HEAD |
Remote default branch | No origin/HEAD / bare HEAD — try gh repo view --json defaultBranchRef --jq '.defaultBranchRef.name', else main |
Treat this as a snapshot. Re-read branch and staged set immediately before committing if anything may have changed.
Default branch name: strip a leading origin/ from origin/HEAD (so origin/trunk → trunk). Use that bare name for all “on the default branch?” checks — never compare against origin/<name>.
Workflow
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Gather — run every Context command above (own shell call each), then continue.
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Nothing to commit — if
git statusshows no staged, modified, or untracked files, report that and stop. Do not usegit diff HEADalone as cleanliness (it misses untracked files). -
Branch first — if detached HEAD, or on the default branch (
main/master/ the bare default name above), create a feature branch from the change content (git checkout -b <name>), then re-readgit branch --show-current. Do not ask — commit-only still must not leave work only on a detached HEAD or the default branch. If the derived name exists, pick a non-conflicting suffix.
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.
- 11d ago Changed a34d3c3b3057
- 1mo ago Changed 757c86b643a1
- 2mo ago Changed · +1 lines 815d94233440
- 2mo ago First seen · 60 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 3d5ed68dbf79
ce-commit is a skill published in the GitHub repository EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin (25,945 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,231 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.
ce-commit compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ce-commitEveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin | Skill | 26k | yesterday | MIT | A | 38 | Claude Code |
| atlas-changelogtonone-ai/tonone | Skill | 77 | 23d ago | MIT | A | 45 | Claude Code |
| apex-statustonone-ai/tonone | Skill | 77 | 23d ago | MIT | A | 42 | Claude Code |
| repo-shipaethrox/doctrine | Skill | 19 | 1mo ago | MIT | A | 68 | Claude Code, Codex |
| superpowers-requesting-code-reviewregen-coordination/org-os-template | Skill | 5 | yesterday | MIT | A | 25 | Claude Code, Codex |
| git-commitThinkInAIXYZ/deepchat | Skill | 6.4k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 15 | Claude Code, Codex |
| engineer-bot-opsmakecindy/cindy | Skill | 9.3k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 57 | Claude Code, Codex |