# Guardian Compound Engineering

> Guardian Compound Engineering

- Skill: `pdbjork/guardian-compound-engineering` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add pdbjork/guardian-compound-engineering`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/pdbjork/guardian-compound-engineering/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: Pdbjork (https://skillmd.com/u/pdbjork)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/pdbjork/guardian-compound-engineering

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# Guardian Compound Engineering

Use this skill whenever building, debugging, reviewing, or improving software, business automation, AI agents, Hermes/Pi skills, or production workflows.

Loop: Plan → Work → Simplify → Review → Compound → Repeat.

Guardian checks: consent, legality, privacy, non-harm, and human flourishing.

Compound after meaningful work by updating at least one durable artifact: AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, docs/plans, docs/solutions, docs/brainstorms, todos, tests, scripts, runbooks, or skills.

For public prose, customer copy, docs, outreach, and social posts, use the stop-slop skill before delivery to remove AI tells, throat-clearing, vague declaratives, business jargon, and formulaic structures.

For brand, content, market, investor, social, API, security, testing, and verification work, use selected ecc-* skills where relevant, under guardian-ecc-skill-policy.

For codebase onboarding, architecture maps, domain-flow mapping, knowledge-base graphing, and change-impact analysis, use guardian-understand-anything and the installed understand* skills.

Business constraints:
- Chromebloom: never mention dropshipping/internal fulfillment in customer-facing copy.
- ULoad: legal storage-unit rental + one on-site helper only.
- X/social workflows: drafts allowed; sending/posting requires human approval unless explicitly configured.
- Secrets: never paste or store live credentials in chat/docs.