Compound Engineering: Workflow Orchestration

Overview

Compound Engineering orchestrates the Essential 2026 Plugin Suite (Debt-Sentinel, Red Team Tribunal, Spec-Lock) into unified, multi-stage workflows. It provides comprehensive quality gates and metrics tracking.

Workflows

1. Safe Edit Workflow ⭐ Most Popular

Three-stage quality gate for individual file edits

Stage 1: Pre-Edit Validation (Debt-Sentinel)
  └─ BLOCKS critical anti-patterns
  └─ Scores technical debt

Stage 2: Post-Edit Sync (Spec-Lock)
  └─ Detects documentation drift
  └─ Auto-resolves if possible