ce-explain SKILL.md skillA
ce-explain 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-explain@git:20261028.7cf9b0aPins git:20261028.7cf9b0a 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-explain/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- git:20261028.7cf9b0a, committed Oct 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 21, 2026
- Size
- 8,576 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25,969
- License
- MIT
Explain how and why something has its current shape, or what happened over a window of work, grounded in evidence. Use when the user asks for an explanation. Use ce-pov for a judgment or recommendation.
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
# Explain How and Why Produce an explanation that answers the scoped question and gives its consumer enough understanding for the intended use. The subject and purpose come from the request and available context, whether a person or another workflow supplied them. Ground project behavior in source evidence; distinguish documented rationale, inference, and unknowns. **Done:** deliver the explanation with supporting evidence and material unanswered questions, or return the specific blocker. When an artifact is requested, deliver the artifact and its location. Publication is a separate action, not a condition of having explained the subject. ## Consumer and interaction Adapt depth and presentation to the intended readers and use. A person may need a working answer; a calling agent may need a teaching artifact for someone else. Do not infer the output from the caller's identity alone. When contributing to an ongoing workflow, deliver the requested result and leave continuation to its owner, the calling workflow. Do not add destination menus or follow-up offers to that return. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin/ce-explain@sha256:0c27456102aa1da0The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261028.7cf9b0a, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_dgalt4dttizds7xj)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Aug 21, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026, about one every 11 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261028.7cf9b0a latest | 2026-10-28 | 7cf9b0a | 8,576 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260922.f2762dd | 2026-09-22 | f2762dd | 8,592 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260912.5c32ef9 | 2026-09-12 | 5c32ef9 | 8,310 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260911.1a9f16c | 2026-09-11 | 1a9f16c | 8,439 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260909.bec6b41 | 2026-09-09 | bec6b41 | 8,371 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260904.57e409e | 2026-09-04 | 57e409e | 9,299 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260821.66ccf57 | 2026-08-21 | 66ccf57 | 11,120 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 (8576 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_dgalt4dttizds7xj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin/ce-explain GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0c27456102aa1da0583ecbb36f3abdbe8ec1930e07bff79dacee19df46f5cf69
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.