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title: '`/setup`'
description: >-
  `/setup` — in this channel's material — is the Compound Engineering plugin's
  **interactive customization command**: it creates a `compound engineering
  local md` file where you configure which agents run during the **review** and
  **work** stages, detects your system (Rails, Python, TypeScript, etc.), and
  guides you through adapting agents, skills, and tools to your own stack. The
  plugin uses Kieran's defaults until that file exists; once it does, it's
  automatically detected and used at the right time
  [^45fde771-1fa4-5519-a1bd-1c6cdabd8394@0]. It's the concrete answer to the
  most common newcomer mistake — assuming Kieran's setup is the _only_ setup,
  when the shipped configuration is just _how he works_, meant to be explored
  and rebuilt as your own.
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markdown: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/setup-5b917534c98d.md'
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channel: everyinc
updated: '2026-10-23T22:12:35.346Z'
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# \`/setup\`

Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/setup-5b917534c98d

Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

`/setup` — in this channel's material — is the Compound Engineering plugin's **interactive customization command**: it creates a `compound engineering local md` file where you configure which agents run during the **review** and **work** stages, detects your system (Rails, Python, TypeScript, etc.), and guides you through adapting agents, skills, and tools to your own stack. The plugin uses Kieran's defaults until that file exists; once it does, it's automatically detected and used at the right time [^45fde771-1fa4-5519-a1bd-1c6cdabd8394@0]. It's the concrete answer to the most common newcomer mistake — assuming Kieran's setup is the _only_ setup, when the shipped configuration is just _how he works_, meant to be explored and rebuilt as your own.

`/setup` is the Compound Engineering plugin's **interactive customization command**. Running it creates a `compound engineering local md` file where you configure which agents run during the **review** and **work** stages — the two points where customization is most useful. If that file doesn't exist, the plugin falls back to Kieran's defaults; if it does, it's automatically detected and applied at the right time. `/setup` also detects your system (Rails, Python, TypeScript, etc.) and guides you through adapting the plugin to your stack — including swapping in your own skills, using **Linear instead of markdown plan files**, or **GitLab instead of GitHub** [^45fde771-1fa4-5519-a1bd-1c6cdabd8394@0]. It's a first-class feature because Compound Engineering is a working method, not a fixed tool — Kieran's shipped configuration is simply _how he works_, meant to be explored and rebuilt as your own. As he put it: [^45fde771-1fa4-5519-a1bd-1c6cdabd8394@438]They think it's just a tool, but it's actually more than a plugin.[/footnote]