ce-retune SKILL.md skillA

ce-retune from everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin/ce-retune@git:20260928.1fa1238

Pins git:20260928.1fa1238 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-retune/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20260928.1fa1238, committed Sep 28, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 24, 2026
Size
4,684 bytes
Repository stars
25,969
License
MIT

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.

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

# Retune a Corpus for a New Model

A corpus that degrades on a new model is a measurement problem before it is a writing problem: rewriting what looks wrong produces a plausible fix list and no way to know whether any item mattered.

**Outcome:** a corpus whose measured behavior on the target model clears a bar registered before any change, with the regression classes removed and each removal attributable.

**Done:** the bar is cleared, or the run reports the specific claim it could not support. A green test suite is not done: it proves nothing broke, not that behavior improved.

**Non-goal:** word reduction. Leanness and performance are separate programs that share a corpus; only one of them is the result here. Report completion, not word count.

## Phase 0: the measurement gate — check this first

This skill cannot run without a way to observe behavior. Check for all three, and name whichever is missing:

1. **A run archive or a harness that produces one** — per-run logs carrying the tool-call trace, a terminal marker, token counts, and the final message.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin/ce-retune@sha256:21f781e9ab8ac32d

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260928.1fa1238, 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 6 versions of this file, between Jul 24, 2026 and Sep 28, 2026, about one every 13 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260928.1fa1238 latest2026-09-28 1fa1238 4,684 BA view · diff
git:20260821.66ccf572026-08-21 66ccf57 4,569 BA view · diff
git:20260818.316692b2026-08-18 316692b 5,976 BA view · diff
git:20260801.c23acfb2026-08-01 c23acfb 9,872 BA view · diff
git:20260729.95ea8ad2026-07-29 95ea8ad 9,438 BA view · diff
git:20260724.aca33872026-07-24 aca3387 8,098 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4684 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

GitHub

everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin · 25,969 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bamisnawkpjrnbot
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin/ce-retune
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/21f781e9ab8ac32d09cec0ac054dfd9392374907076b1335f95bb2591401dce2

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.

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