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  **`/polish`** is the _polish workflow_ in **Compound Engineering**: a step
  where you interact with the running app and coding agents refine it, fixing
  issues in the background while the product stays live.
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# \`/polish\`

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## Definition

**`/polish`** is the _polish workflow_ in **Compound Engineering**: a step where you interact with the running app and coding agents refine it, fixing issues in the background while the product stays live.

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.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.