/polish
How /polish shows up in this channel
In this channel's material, /polish is the Compound Engineering polish workflow — the step where the running app gets refined while you actually use it. Instead of only polishing code in a terminal, the workflow is described in terms of the app experience: you interact with the running product, surface what feels wrong, and coding agents fix things in the background.
The experiment around it
One exploration session centers on extending this workflow: Kieran experiments with adding OpenAI's live voice API to Compound Engineering's polish workflow — so you can talk to your app while it's running, and coding agents fix things in the background. The session is framed as exploring the idea behind the experiment, the design questions it surfaces, and how the brainstorm → plan → build loop actually ran on stream.
- /polish is the Compound Engineering workflow for refining the running app, not just the codebase.- It pairs naturally with multi-agent work: you exercise the live product while coding agents fix things in the background.- The OpenAI live-voice experiment extends it further — speaking to the app while it runs — surfacing new design questions for the brainstorm-to-plan-to-build loop.