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Project Cairn

by iBlinkQ

Project Cairn is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by iBlinkQ in project-cairn.

223 stars44 forkson iBlinkQ/project-cairnAdded 2026/09/04+2% in starsRepository updated 2026/09/04
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Install Project Cairn
Copy Project Cairn 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/iBlinkQ/project-cairn ~/.claude/skills/project-cairn

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/iBlinkQ/project-cairn.git

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

In this catalog

Source file
SKILL.md in iBlinkQ/project-cairn
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/project-cairn
Collection
The only skill cataloged from this repository
Category
AI Engineering — 2970 skills

What Project Cairn does

Project Cairn turns project work into reusable knowledge by keeping validated lessons, decisions, and notes in project files. Use it to initialize or maintain Cairn docs, audit drift, cite external knowledge, and prepare reusable experience for graduation.

Project Cairn is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Project Cairn comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agents, claude-code, codex and knowledge-management.

Documentation

README

Project Cairn

Project Cairn gives AI-collaboration projects a durable way to keep and reuse what they learn while doing real work. The Skill supplies the method, AGENTS.md carries always-read project rules, and .cairn/config.yaml stores machine-readable configuration.

This Skill is documentation-first. It provides instructions, templates, references, and provider adapters. It has no CLI, MCP server, background hook, chat-end trigger, automatic provider write, or automatic history migration. Routine maintenance happens during normal work because AGENTS.md carries the rules. Provider writes require human confirmation.

Routing

Load exactly the reference you need:

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

Frequently asked about Project Cairn

  • How does Project Cairn compare to other AI Engineering skills?

    Project Cairn ranks #2549 by stars among the 2970 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. 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 Project Cairn against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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