ce:compound

ce:compound is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Jerrylalala/compound-engineering. It costs 17 tokens per session (5,810 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ce:compound, MIT.

A workflow that documents a recently solved coding problem in searchable project files, with several subagents helping organize the result.

In plain words
What is it for?
It creates structured documents in docs/solutions/, adds searchable metadata, classifies the problem, and assembles the final write-up from a standard template.
Why use it?
It preserves the solution while the details are fresh so similar problems can be solved faster later.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the compound-engineering plugin — 78 skills, 4 commands, 2 hooks shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jerrylalala/compound-engineering/ce-compound
Any agent
npx skills add Jerrylalala/compound-engineering --skill ce-compound
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jerrylalala/compound-engineering

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install compound-engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 78 skills, 4 commands, 2 hooks.

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.

agentmods badge for ce:compound

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jerrylalala/compound-engineering/ce-compound"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jerrylalala/compound-engineering/ce-compound.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,810 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 86% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00017 $0.05810
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.02905
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.01162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00581

Measured 5d ago against content hash ddfa41de24cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ce:compound 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 5d 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

This is a copy

86% identical to ce:compound — 85 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/compound-engineering/skills/ce-compound/SKILL.md · 488 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 488 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/compound

Coordinate multiple subagents working in parallel to document a recently solved problem.

Purpose

Captures problem solutions while context is fresh, creating structured documentation in docs/solutions/ with YAML frontmatter for searchability and future reference. Uses parallel subagents for maximum efficiency.

Why "compound"? Each documented solution compounds your team's knowledge. The first time you solve a problem takes research. Document it, and the next occurrence takes minutes. Knowledge compounds.

Usage

/ce:compound                    # Document the most recent fix
/ce:compound [brief context]    # Provide additional context hint

Support Files

These files are the durable contract for the workflow. Read them on-demand at the step that needs them — do not bulk-load at skill start.

  • references/schema.yaml — canonical frontmatter fields and enum values (read when validating YAML)
  • references/yaml-schema.md — category mapping from problem_type to directory (read when classifying)
  • assets/resolution-template.md — section structure for new docs (read when assembling)

When spawning subagents, pass the relevant file contents into the task prompt so they have the contract without needing cross-skill paths.

Execution Strategy

Present the user with two options before proceeding, using the platform's blocking question tool (AskUserQuestion in Claude Code, request_user_input in Codex, ask_user in Gemini). If no question tool is available, present the options and wait for the user's reply.

1. Full (recommended) — the complete compound workflow. Researches,
   cross-references, and reviews your solution to produce documentation
   that compounds your team's knowledge.

2. Lightweight — same documentation, single pass. Faster and uses
   fewer tokens, but won't detect duplicates or cross-reference
   existing docs. Best for simple fixes or long sessions nearing
   context limits.

Do NOT pre-select a mode. Do NOT skip this prompt. Wait for the user's choice before proceeding.

Read the full file on GitHub · 488 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 5d ago First seen · 488 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A ddfa41de24cb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ce:compound is a skill published in the GitHub repository Jerrylalala/compound-engineering (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 5,810 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to ce:compound, differing in 85 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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