# ce-compound-refresh

Audits captured engineering solutions against current repo code. It weeds out obsolete notes, fixes drift, and aligns documentation with real implementation.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 3300 installs · ★ 25714
- Author: EveryInc
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin/tree/HEAD/skills/ce-compound-refresh/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
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## What it does

The skill inspects markdown records inside `<root>/solutions/`, checking how accurately they reflect working code. It resolves `<root>` through the `docs_root` key in `.compound-engineering/config.yaml`, defaulting to `docs`. Each reviewed doc gets assigned an explicit outcome: `Keep`, `Update`, `Consolidate`, `Replace`, or `Delete`. History lives in git, so no `_archived/` folder is created.

Beyond basic accuracy, you can trigger a worth audit. That pass culls or shortens records whose context already lives inside code comments, tests, or instructions. Domain terms flagged during investigation are also matched against `CONCEPTS.md`.

Crucially, this skill never modifies product code or external runbooks. When recorded guidance contradicts current mechanics, the script reports the clash as a potential regression rather than rewriting application files.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin --skill ce-compound-refresh -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/ce-compound-refresh/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/ce-compound-refresh/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin --skill ce-compound-refresh -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/ce-compound-refresh/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin --skill ce-compound-refresh -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/ce-compound-refresh/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin ce-compound-refresh
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/ce-compound-refresh/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin --skill ce-compound-refresh -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin --path skills/ce-compound-refresh
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/ce-compound-refresh/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin --skill ce-compound-refresh -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin/tree/HEAD/skills/ce-compound-refresh/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- audit outdated solution notes against working code
- eliminate conflicting or duplicate engineering learnings
- prune documentation already covered by test suites
- synchronize domain vocabulary with CONCEPTS.md

## Example prompts
- Run `ce-compound-refresh` on the `auth/` directory in `mode:non-interactive`
- Audit `solutions/` with `ce-compound-refresh` and report stale files
- Use `ce-compound-refresh` to prune duplicate learnings and update `CONCEPTS.md`

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: ce-compound-refresh
description: Refresh the repo's captured learnings against the current codebase. Use when auditing stale, overlapping, superseded, or drifted learnings; avoid general refactor, debugging, or code review unless the learnings store is explicit.
argument-hint: "[optional: scope hint — directory, filename, module, or keyword] [mode:non-interactive] "
---

# Compound Refresh

Audit the learnings under `<root>/solutions/` against the current codebase, apply the maintenance actions the evidence supports, and deliver a complete per-doc report plus committed changes. The report and the corrected document set are the deliverables. The store only compounds value if every doc can be trusted.


## Mode

**Read `references/modes.md` now.** It reads the mode off the arguments and defines what each mode may apply unattended, the stale-marking fallback, the question tools, and the `CONCEPTS.md` bootstrap.

Two rules hold in both modes. A failed write is recorded as **recommended**, and the run continues. And a question is asked through the host's blocking tool, or through the numbered-options fallback that reference defines. It is never silently skipped.

## Worth lens

The ordinary refresh judges accuracy: is each doc still true and still distinct. It never deletes an accurate doc for holding knowledge the repo states elsewhere. That second judgment, worth, runs only when the user asked for it and confirmed it. It reads the whole scope against the codebase and can delete accurate docs.

Read the invocation arguments for that intent: the user wants the store cleaned up, culled, pruned, trimmed, upgraded, or brought to the capture bar, in any wording, rather than checked for drift. When the intent is present, state the reading back and confirm before any investigation:

```text
You asked to clean up the learnings. Which do you want?
1. Delete or shorten docs the codebase already explains. A doc goes when a test, a code comment, or the instructions file states the same reasoning, and every cut quotes that file. Drift is fixed too. Scope: <scope>.
2. Fix drift only. Stale paths and links, duplicate docs, and guidance the code no longer supports. Nothing accurate is deleted.
```

On option 1, **read `references/worth-audit.md`** before Investigate; it adds the bar, the evidence rule, and the routing. On option 2, or when the intent is absent, do not read that reference and do not apply its test; the accuracy refresh is the whole run. Non-interactive mode cannot confirm, so `references/modes.md` states what an inferred intent does there.

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