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Installing Compound Engineering for Cline

Cline loads CE through native skills discovery — the same SKILL.md directories shipped in this repository's skills/ folder. No Bun converter or generated copy step is required.

Extension (VS Code, Cursor, JetBrains)

  1. Install the Cline extension in your editor.
  2. Enable Settings -> Features -> Enable Skills.
  3. Link CE skills globally or into your project (see below).
  4. Start a new Cline task. Skills such as ce-brainstorm and ce-plan appear when their descriptions match your request.

Install skills

From a clone of this repository:

# Global (~/.cline/skills/) — available in every project
./compound-engineering-plugin/.cline/scripts/install-skills.sh --global

# Project (.cline/skills/ in the current directory)
./compound-engineering-plugin/.cline/scripts/install-skills.sh --project

The script creates symlinks so Cline reads the live skill directories from your checkout. Re-run it after git pull to refresh links when skill folder names change. It only ever creates or replaces CE-owned symlinks (links whose target resolves under this checkout's skills/ tree); an existing ~/.cline/skills/<name> pointing at your own skill, a fork, or another checkout is left untouched. Default installs also remove only manual-only symlinks that are CE-owned.

Skills marked disable-model-invocation: true (for example ce-dogfood, ce-polish, ce-setup) are not linked by default — Cline auto-activates from description matching and has no manual-only gate, so linking them would let them fire unintentionally. Those slash commands are unavailable until you opt in:

./compound-engineering-plugin/.cline/scripts/install-skills.sh --global --include-manual

--include-manual links manual-only skills so /ce-polish and similar commands work, with a warning that Cline may still auto-activate them when descriptions match. Omit the flag if you do not need those workflows on Cline.

Pin a release

Clone the tag you want, then run the install script against that checkout:

git clone --branch compound-engineering-vX.Y.Z --depth 1 \
  https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin.git
./compound-engineering-plugin/.cline/scripts/install-skills.sh --global

Replace X.Y.Z with a tag from the releases page.

Local development

From your working copy:

/path/to/compound-engineering-plugin/.cline/scripts/install-skills.sh --global

Edit skills under skills/ and start a new Cline task to pick up prose changes.

Uninstall

Remove CE skill symlinks from ~/.cline/skills/ or .cline/skills/. Skill directory names match the folders under skills/ (for example ce-brainstorm, ce-plan).

Cline CLI

The Cline CLI supports separate AgentPlugin installs for custom tools and hooks. CE does not require a CLI plugin for its skills to work. Use the skills install script above when running Cline from the terminal.