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compound-engineering-plugin

Plugin of 36 agent skills for a plan, build, review and document loop

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Stars: 25.5k
License: MIT
Last commit: Oct 2026
Last release: Oct 2026
Language: TypeScript

Stars, last 29 weeks+14,710

10,808 on 24 Mar 202625,518 on 13 Oct 2026

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Checked 14 Oct 2026 on GitHub.

Overview

Compound Engineering is a plugin of 36 skills for AI coding agents, organized around a loop of brainstorm, plan, work, simplify, review and compound. The compound step writes learnings into docs/solutions/, which later brainstorm and plan runs read as context. It installs on 14 agent hosts, including Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, and includes an autonomous /lfg pipeline that can open a PR and watch CI.

Who it is for: Developers using AI coding agents who want a structured, documented workflow

Strengths

Runs on 14 agent hosts, including Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot and OpenCode
Captures learnings as repo files (docs/solutions/) that later planning reads
Covers the full cycle: brainstorm, plan, work, review, plus debug, commit and PR skills
Artifact folder location is configurable via the docs_root setting

Weaknesses

36 skills and a multi-step workflow add process overhead for small changes
Install steps differ per host; Cline and Pi need extra setup or companion packages
Compound Packs for org-wide rules are marked experimental
Some Devin skills use Claude-style tool names and prompt for permission

What it needs

no GPU
Needs An AI coding agent host (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc.), pi-subagents (Pi only)

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How to choose

Check which agent it targets and whether it works with the version you run.
Read what it adds to every prompt; big rule sets cost tokens on each call.
Prefer add-ons you can turn off per project.

Health

Releases: 100 or more in 12 monthsLast one 3 days ago
Top contributor: 66% of commits852 of 1,283 in the last 12 months
Security advisories: NoneOn GitHub, in the last 12 months
OpenSSF Scorecard: Not checked

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License in plain words

MIT Permissive

Use it at work: Yes
Change it and rebrand it: Yes
Sell it or host it for others: Yes

Your part: Keep the copyright and license notice in copies you ship.

A plain summary, not legal advice. Read the license on GitHub ↗ (opens in a new tab)

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