Every Agentic Engineering Hack I Know (October 2026)…

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TLDR
Matt Van Horn shares his stack for orchestrating coding and personal agents, turning painful workflows into skills, and automating work across tools.
Best for
Builders running a team of coding and personal agents.
The tip
Use one smart orchestrator to call specialist agents, then turn repeated pain into a reusable skill.
What you need
  • Claude Code
  • Compound Engineering plugin
Start here
  1. Install Compound Engineering
  2. Send each idea through /ce-plan, then /ce-work
  3. Turn the next painful workflow into a skill

postThe source

Matt Van Horn@mvanhorn

Every Agentic Engineering Hack I Know (October 2026): Attack of the Personal Agents

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Highlights

  • The moment I have an idea, it's /ce-plan. A bug, a feature, a screenshot of an error, a pasted GitHub issue, a half-formed thought: /ce-plan.

    A single planning reflex captures work before implementation.

  • Whenever something is painful, it becomes a skill.

    Repeated friction becomes reusable procedure.

  • Compound engineering is still the biggest hack.

    The workflow compounds planning and execution knowledge over time.

Excerpt

This article was written by an agent calling me on the phone while I pushed a stroller.

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