Compound Engineering

Features

• Defines and maintains product strategy documentation.
• Generates and critiques development ideas.
• Facilitates interactive feature brainstorming and requirements documentation.
• Creates detailed implementation plans.
• Executes plans with worktrees and task tracking.
• Provides systematic debugging and root cause analysis.
• Conducts multi-agent code reviews before merging.
• Documents learnings to improve future development cycles.
• Generates usage and performance pulse reports.

Use Cases

• Use when you need to define the strategic direction for a product.
• Use to brainstorm and thoroughly plan a new feature before coding.
• Use to systematically debug and fix issues by tracing root causes.
• Use to ensure code quality and consistency through AI-assisted code review.

Non-Goals

• Replacing direct code execution or manual development entirely.
• Providing generic AI assistant capabilities outside of the compound engineering domain.
• Managing infrastructure or deployment pipelines directly.

Workflow

1. Define or maintain STRATEGY.md
2. Optionally perform big-picture ideation with /ce-ideate
3. Brainstorm requirements for a feature or problem
4. Plan the implementation based on requirements
5. Execute the plan with worktrees and task tracking
6. Perform multi-agent code review
7. Document learnings to compound knowledge
8. Generate periodic product pulse reports

Practices

• Workflow automation
• Knowledge management
• Code quality
• Development process improvement