ce-optimize SKILL.md skillA
ce-optimize 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-optimize@git:20261023.929273aPins git:20261023.929273a 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-optimize/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- git:20261023.929273a, committed Oct 23, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 24, 2026
- Size
- 7,906 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25,969
- License
- MIT
Optimize a named target with a measured loop: attribute a workload's cost, or score variants and keep winners. Use when a working system's metric should move and the winning change is not already known. Use ce-debug when the job is diagnosis; use ce-work when the change is already known.
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
# Optimize a measurable target **Outcome:** confirmed improvements to the named target live on an `optimize/<spec-name>` branch, with a disk log. The user takes over at wrap-up. **Intent:** the next action is the cheapest step that would change what gets implemented. Attribute the cost of a named workload before searching implementations. Search and keep a scored variant space without requiring a profile. **Done when:** a stopping criterion was met, every declared required target is met or another stop was met first, the final state is written and verified on disk, and the user has been given the post-completion options. If the run instead stopped at a check it could not pass, say what blocked it. Invoking this skill authorizes reading the repo, building the harness, and (after the Phase 1 approval gate) isolated experiments and keep/revert commits on `optimize/<spec-name>`. Ask when spend is uncapped, when a new dependency appears, when wrap-up would push or open a PR, or when only the user can choose among the post-completion options. Do not ask again to run the next experiment inside those limits. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin/ce-optimize@sha256:d44b1723df398409The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261023.929273a, 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 7 versions of this file, between Aug 24, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026, about one every 10 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261023.929273a latest | 2026-10-23 | 929273a | 7,906 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.89408fd | 2026-09-30 | 89408fd | 7,877 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260911.1a9f16c | 2026-09-11 | 1a9f16c | 7,778 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260909.390b013 | 2026-09-09 | 390b013 | 7,763 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260907.caa3b23 | 2026-09-07 | caa3b23 | 7,742 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260907.098ccdb | 2026-09-07 | 098ccdb | 7,759 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260824.180fcd2 | 2026-08-24 | 180fcd2 | 6,588 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 (7906 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_thcneajja2hm4nyy GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin/ce-optimize GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d44b1723df398409eead75ee65db229c5b2922eaf266d0c3b767662471361bd7
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.