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CE Skill Work

Guides agents through creating, editing, reviewing, or responding to feedback on skill files in the repo

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Repository
EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin
Stars
25,850
Licence
MIT
Files
6 files

What it does

This skill teaches an AI agent how to work on the skill files inside the compound-engineering repository itself. When someone asks it to create a new skill, edit an existing one, review a skill change, or act on reviewer comments about a skill, the agent follows a written authoring standard: state goals and done conditions instead of long lists of cases, keep only lines that change behavior, and validate changes in proportion to their risk. It does not apply to ordinary application code, tests, or scripts.

Great for

  • Maintainers of the compound-engineering plugin who write or review skills
  • Contributors who want their skill changes to match the repository's authoring standard
  • Developers building their own skill libraries who want a worked example of a strict skill-writing procedure

Skip it if

  • Writing application code, tests, or build scripts, since the skill says it is scoped to skills/** files and excludes src/, tests/, and scripts/ (it would give the wrong guidance there)
  • Someone outside this repository who expects it to describe their own skill format, because it depends on a referenced standard document and project instructions that are not included in these files

Try asking

  • “Create a new skill for this repository that handles release notes”
  • “Review this pull request that edits skills/ai-review/SKILL.md”
  • “Address the bot review comments on my change to a skill reference file”
  • “Tighten the wording of this skill's description so it triggers correctly”
Step-by-step guide: how to use CE Skill WorkInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 6 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    ce-skill-work.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip ce-skill-work.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip ce-skill-work.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Point the agent at the specific file or change you want reviewed so it can pick the right mode (create, edit, review, or respond).
  • Make sure the referenced standard document exists in your checkout, since the skill tells the agent to read it before acting.
  • Expect it to ask for validation of changes; the skill requires a completion report and a test or an explicit skip reason.

What's inside

  • references/edit-skill.md
  • references/evaluate.md
  • references/new-skill.md
  • references/respond-to-review.md
  • references/review-skill.md
  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.