Compound Engineering: The 18.3K★ Plugin That Makes AI Coding Get Better Every Time

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Summary EveryInc dropped compound-engineering-plugin (18.3K★, trending ) - an open-source plugin for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and more. The philosophy: "Each unit of engineering work should make subsequent units easier - not harder." Instead of accumulating tech debt, it compounds knowledge. 80% planning and review, 20% execution. The result: every code change makes your codebase cleaner, not messier.