Agent skill · writing content · aiskillstore
project-cairn
Standardize how an AI-collaboration project turns work into reusable knowledge. Use when initializing or retrofitting Project Cairn in a project, recording progress after meaningful work, maintaining AGENTS/CLAUDE/cairn docs, auditing project knowledge for drift or missing records, pulling and citing external knowledge, or graduating validated project experience into a reusable knowledge base.
Why this skill is useful
Provides templates and structured documentation for managing AI-collaboration projects, which the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires bash, python installed locally. About 2k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 405 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
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: references/init.md — initialize, retrofit, bootstrap, or set up Project Cairn in a project. references/consume.md — pull, cite, reuse, or apply external knowledge from the configured knowledge base. references/maintenance.md — record progress, update LOG, update ROADMAP, maintain topic notes, or apply Cairn rules after work. references/audit.md — inspect, audit, validate, clean up, or find missing project knowledge records. references/upgrade.md — upgrade an initialized project instance to the current skill spec, or check how far it has drifted (instance drift after the skill itself evolved). references/graduation.md — graduate knowledge, move reusable experience to a knowledge base, or judge graduation-readiness; a provider write additionally reads only the selected references/graduation/<provider>.md. references/frontmatter.md — create or review Cairn topic notes or knowledge-base notes. references/branch-closure.md — review, close, abandon, or roll back an exploration branch and salvage its cairn/ knowledge before it disappears. references/zh-glossary.md — writing project docs in Chinese (or resolving what a Chinese term should be); fixed English↔Chinese terminology mapping for Project Cairn's own vocabulary. The description frontmatter describes triggering situations, not the workflow in detail. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills aiskillstore/project-cairn