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home	Compound Engineering	/	Skills for your coding agent that make each unit of engineering work easier than the last.	text tagline actions Each unit of work should make the next one easier. Compound Engineering is a set of skills for the coding agent you already use. Plan, work, review, then compound. What you learn gets written down where the next run will read it. theme text link brand Install /install/ theme text link alt See the skills /guides/

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Animated explainer. In traditional development, effort per change climbs with every feature. Compound engineering inverts the curve through a six-step loop: brainstorm, plan, work, simplify, review, and compound. The compound step writes a learning to docs/solutions/, and a later, unrelated plan finds and uses it. Most of the effort goes to planning and review, not execution.

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Install

In Claude Code, two commands. Other hosts are on the install page.

/plugin marketplace add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin
/plugin install compound-engineering

{% include ce/hosts.html %}

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The loop

Most of the thinking happens before and after the code is written. The last step is the one that pays off next time.

1. PlanDecide what to build and why before any code exists.
2. WorkBuild it from the plan, with tests and review gates along the way.
3. ReviewCheck the change against the plan and the repo's standards.
4. CompoundWrite down what was learned so the next run starts further ahead.

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Read more

• The compound engineering guide
• How Every codes with agents
• Source on GitHub