ce-ideate SKILL.md skillA
ce-ideate from everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin/ce-ideate@git:20261028.218ceadPins git:20261028.218cead in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin
- Path
skills/ce-ideate/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 9
- Latest version
- git:20261028.218cead, committed Oct 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 18, 2026
- Size
- 7,506 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25,969
- License
- MIT
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).
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Generate Improvement Ideas `ce-ideate` runs before `ce-brainstorm`. This skill answers "which ideas are worth exploring?" `ce-brainstorm` then answers what one chosen idea should mean. `ce-plan` answers how it gets built. **Done:** a ranked ideation artifact is written to `<root>/ideation/` when that root is present, else to a CE temp path. Every idea generated has been critiqued, and the survivors are explained. The user is left holding the next-steps menu. No requirements, plans, or code. ## Boundaries 1. **Ground before ideating.** No advice detached from the repo. 2. **Generate many, critique all, explain survivors only.** Generate the full candidate list before critiquing any of it. Rejection is explicit and carries a reason; this is not optimistic ranking. 3. **Send the user to brainstorming for action.** Never skip from ideation output to planning. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin/ce-ideate@sha256:7cb0f7b0154556f6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261028.218cead, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 9 versions of this file, between Aug 18, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026, about one every 9 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261028.218cead latest | 2026-10-28 | 218cead | 7,506 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261028.0a40c49 | 2026-10-28 | 0a40c49 | 7,542 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261028.0841f4c | 2026-10-28 | 0841f4c | 7,510 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261021.cee3127 | 2026-10-21 | cee3127 | 7,604 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260911.f050478 | 2026-09-11 | f050478 | 7,127 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260911.1a9f16c | 2026-09-11 | 1a9f16c | 7,125 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260824.180fcd2 | 2026-08-24 | 180fcd2 | 7,013 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260821.66ccf57 | 2026-08-21 | 66ccf57 | 6,755 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260818.7db168b | 2026-08-18 | 7db168b | 7,794 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7506 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin · 25,969 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_b3x3u76re2g4bbcw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin/ce-ideate GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7cb0f7b0154556f6d4a0adb0f4317a47e90d8c19224105eac196542aabbf26f1
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.