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 agentmods add skills/gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi/ce-ideatenpx skills add gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi --skill ce-ideategit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gvkhosla/compound-engineering-piWrote 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/gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi/ce-ideate)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi/ce-ideate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi/ce-ideate.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00101 | $0.03723 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00051 | $0.01861 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00020 | $0.00745 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00372 |
Grade A, and why
ce:ideate scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 371 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Generate Improvement Ideas
Note: The current year is 2026. Use this when dating ideation documents and checking recent ideation artifacts.
ce:ideate precedes ce:brainstorm.
ce:ideateanswers: "What are the strongest ideas worth exploring?"ce:brainstormanswers: "What exactly should one chosen idea mean?"ce:plananswers: "How should it be built?"
This workflow produces a ranked ideation artifact in docs/ideation/. It does not produce requirements, plans, or code.
Interaction Method
Use the platform's blocking question tool when available (AskUserQuestion in Claude Code, request_user_input in Codex, ask_user in Gemini). Otherwise, present numbered options in chat and wait for the user's reply before proceeding.
Ask one question at a time. Prefer concise single-select choices when natural options exist.
Focus Hint
<focus_hint> #$ARGUMENTS </focus_hint>
Interpret any provided argument as optional context. It may be:
- a concept such as
DX improvements - a path such as
plugins/compound-engineering/skills/ - a constraint such as
low-complexity quick wins - a volume hint such as
top 3,100 ideas, orraise the bar
If no argument is provided, proceed with open-ended ideation.
Core Principles
- Ground before ideating - Scan the actual codebase first. Do not generate abstract product advice detached from the repository.
- Diverge before judging - Generate the full idea set before evaluating any individual idea.
- Use adversarial filtering - The quality mechanism is explicit rejection with reasons, not optimistic ranking.
- Preserve the original prompt mechanism - Generate many ideas, critique the whole list, then explain only the survivors in detail. Do not let extra process obscure this pattern.
- Use agent diversity to improve the candidate pool - Parallel sub-agents are a support mechanism for richer idea generation and critique, not the core workflow itself.
- Preserve the artifact early - Write the ideation document before presenting results so work survives interruptions.
- Route action into brainstorming - Ideation identifies promising directions;
ce:brainstormdefines the selected one precisely enough for planning.
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 371 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A 040590324618
ce:ideate is a skill published in the GitHub repository gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi (51 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 3,723 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 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.
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