Project Cairn provides a standardized method for AI-collaboration projects to capture progress and institutional memory. It helps technical leads and automation builders record meaningful work, maintain agent documentation, and audit project knowledge for drift or missing records.
The system ensures that validated project experience is graduated into a structured knowledge base, allowing external information to be cited and integrated without losing the context of the original work.
Follow the documented setup, then try a first task.
Installs: Complete Project Cairn skill, installed at user level · Claude Code
Platform: The bundled shell scripts are verified on macOS and Linux; Windows requires WSL or Git Bash.
Run this command in a terminal to clone Project Cairn into Claude Code's user-level skills directory.
git clone https://github.com/iBlinkQ/project-cairn.git ~/.claude/skills/project-cairn
Installs: Complete Project Cairn skill, installed at the user-level direct skill path · Codex
Platform: The bundled shell scripts are verified on macOS and Linux; Windows requires WSL or Git Bash.
Run this command in a terminal to clone Project Cairn into Codex's user-level direct skill path.
git clone https://github.com/iBlinkQ/project-cairn.git ~/.agents/skills/project-cairn
Installs: Complete Project Cairn local skill package · WorkBuddy
Platform: The bundled shell scripts are verified on macOS and Linux; Windows requires WSL or Git Bash.
Download the Project Cairn ZIP from https://github.com/iBlinkQ/project-cairn/archive/refs/heads/main.zip.
In the WorkBuddy sidebar, open Skills, select Add Skill, and then select Upload Skill.
Choose the downloaded ZIP file. WorkBuddy configures it automatically; do not manually copy it into a directory.
Uses project-cairn
Use the project-cairn skill to initialize Project Cairn in this project.
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