Compound

Compound is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by garagon in nanostack.

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Install Compound

Copy Compound into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/garagon/nanostack/tree/main/compound ~/.claude/skills/compound

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/garagon/nanostack.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: compound/SKILL.md in garagon/nanostack
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/compound
Collection: One of 18 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1227 skills

What Compound does

Compound documents what was learned during a sprint or significant fix by reading artifacts and writing structured solutions. Use it after /ship, a major bug fix, or an architecture decision worth remembering.

Compound is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Compound comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, ai-coding, claude-code, code-review and codex.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

/compound - Knowledge Compounding

After a sprint or a significant fix, extract what you learned into structured, searchable documents. Next time the agent plans or reviews, it finds these automatically.

Telemetry preamble

Defensive telemetry init. No-op if telemetry is disabled via NANOSTACK_NO_TELEMETRY=1, ~/.nanostack/.telemetry-disabled, or if the helpers are removed.

_P="$HOME/.claude/skills/nanostack/bin/lib/skill-preamble.sh"
[ -f "$_P" ] && . "$_P" compound
unset _P

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Compound provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/compound
/ship
/review
/security
/think
/qa
/investigate
/nano

Frequently asked about Compound

What else does garagon publish alongside Compound?
Compound is one of 18 skills that DirSkills catalogs from garagon/nanostack, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Conductor, Feature and Guard. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Compound does, and is maintained by garagon in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the garagon/nanostack page.
How does Compound compare to other Writing skills?
Compound ranks #981 by stars among the 1227 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Compound against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.