ce-explain
Explains how and why something has its current shape, or what happened over a window of work, grounded in evidence.
- Kind
- Skill
- Works with
- Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Any agent
- Source
- EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin @ 786ac0194183
- Path
- skills/ce-explain/SKILL.md
- License
- MIT
- Jobs
- Documentation
InstallInstall it from a plugin marketplace.
/plugin install compound-engineering
# 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. …