Compound Engineering

ce-handoff

Create a session handoff for another agent, or resume, find, and read any user-selected continuity source. Use when work or conversation must continue without access to the current session history.

ce-ideate

Generate and evaluate grounded ideas. Use when the user wants ideas, improvements, or surprising directions before choosing one to develop. Not for refining an idea they already have (ce-brainstorm) or judging one already on the table (ce-pov).

ce-noslop

Rewrite, check, or draft prose so it reads plainly on the first read and carries no AI writing patterns, keeping every fact the source states. Use when the user asks to make text plainer, humanize it, remove AI-sounding writing, or check whether it reads as machine-written; when a draft is wanted from supplied content; and when a skill about to compose a PR body, plan, finding, or reply names this skill. Use ce-promote for channel-specific marketing copy.

ce-optimize

Optimize a named target with a measured loop: attribute a workload's cost, or score variants and keep winners. Use when a working system's metric should move and the winning change is not already known. Use ce-debug when the job is diagnosis; use ce-work when the change is already known.

ce-plan

Create structured plans for multi-step work, including software and non-software tasks. Use when asked to plan, break down implementation, plan from requirements, or deepen an existing plan; prefer ce-brainstorm for exploratory framing.

ce-polish

Polish a working feature through user-directed live browser feedback. Use when a functional feature needs focused UX refinement before shipping.

ce-pov

Judge a supplied subject against the project's evidence and constraints, returning a supported position, tradeoffs, and conditions. Use when assessing an external-adoption question, a holistic take on a document, or a supplied approach set. Use for an oracle panel to consult other models and reconcile their opinions. Use ce-explain for understanding and ce-doc-review for findings review. Use ce-bakeoff to develop competing solutions to a defined brief, ce-ideate to explore opportunities, or ce-brainstorm to establish goals.

ce-product-pulse

Generate time-windowed product pulse reports from configured signals.

ce-promote

Draft launch or promotion copy for a shipped feature.

ce-proof

Publish, read, comment on, or edit markdown in Proof. Use for Proof links, sharing specs/plans/drafts, or publish handoffs from planning workflows; avoid proofread, math, evidence, or proof-of-concept meanings.

ce-prototype

Build a throwaway prototype to answer how something should work, feel, or read. Use when committing the wrong answer would be expensive to unravel and a cheap sketch cannot settle it. Not a rough visual probe during brainstorming, not for deciding what to build, not polishing a feature that already works, not implementing the real thing.

ce-resolve-pr-feedback

Resolve PR review feedback. Use when addressing feedback already left on a PR. Not for reviewing the code before feedback exists; that is ce-code-review.

ce-retune

Retune a skill corpus for a new model, measurement-first: mine the run archive for a baseline, establish a noise floor, audit the corpus adversarially, then cut in measured passes until a pre-registered bar clears. Requires a benchmark harness that can A/B two builds of the corpus; refuses without one.

ce-riffrec-feedback-analysis

Analyze recorded product feedback into evidence for bugs and requirements. Use when a Riffrec capture or other screen, voice, or notes artifact needs interpretation. Use for Riffrec setup, capture, or sharing help when no recording exists yet.

ce-setup

Check Compound Engineering health and repo-local config, or scaffold a Compound Pack with `pack:<id>`.

ce-simplify-code

Simplify settled, recently changed code for clarity, reuse, quality, and efficiency while preserving behavior. Use after implementation and before review; use ce-debug for bugs.

ce-strategy

Create or update STRATEGY.md. Use when starting a product, adding a strategy doc to an existing repo, changing direction or roadmap, or when ce-ideate, ce-brainstorm, or ce-plan need upstream product grounding.

ce-sweep

Sweep configured feedback sources (Slack, GitHub Issues; email experimental) for new items: acknowledge at source, analyze recordings, verify fixes merged to main, and emit an `lfg`-ready plan. First run sets up sources; supports mode:non-interactive for scheduled runs.

ce-test-browser

Run browser tests for pages affected by the current branch or PR. Use when asked to run or check browser tests for the current change.

ce-test-xcode

Test iOS apps in a simulator with XcodeBuildMCP. Use when iOS changes need simulator evidence before handoff.

ce-work

Execute a plan or concrete work prompt end-to-end. Use when implementing from a plan document, a spec path, or a clear build request; use ce-debug for open-ended bugs. Use when an outer orchestrator needs implementation and local verification only, without the shipping tail.

ce-worktree

Set up isolated git worktrees — create a new branch for fresh work, or attach a worktree to an existing branch, PR, or commit. Use when starting isolated work or isolating an existing ref.

lfg

Run the full autonomous shipping pipeline end-to-end, hands-off with no check-ins. Use only when the user explicitly asks to build or ship something autonomously all the way to an open PR, or invokes lfg directly — it pushes and opens a PR without stopping. Not for in-the-loop work where the user reviews each step: use ce-plan, ce-work, ce-debug, or ce-commit-push-pr instead.